Author Bios

Curt Ries is a political organizer, former farmer and freelance writer. Ries is a member of Democratic Socialists of America and the Sunrise Movement. He is the former deputy director …

Beverly Deepe Keever is the author of Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting. 

Andrew Willis Garcés is a Southern writer and organizer who supports public school educators building their power with the North Carolina Association of Educators and coaches organizations on campaign …

Ergoat is a freelance writer originally from Maine, longtime cannabis hemp activist, organizer with Occupy Cal & Occupy Oakland, currently living in Berkeley CA.

Lee Schultz, Carlsbad, is a graduate of Angelo State Univ '69;  and a veteran of Goodfellow Air Base '63 and Vietnam Through ‘67, who has received the American Spirit …

Jackie Smith is a professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a co-founder of the International Network of Scholar Activists and serves as a delegate to …

Karla Murthy is a producer and editor with Moyers and Company.

Alexandra Nikolchev is a camera operator and asscociate producer with Moyers and Company.

Suey Park is an Ethnic Studies MA student and writer.

Mutope DuGuma is incarcerated at California's Pelican Bay State Prison in its notorious Security Housing Unit. He was one of the thousands who participated in the two-month hunger strike …