Author Bios

Tom Reifer is an associate professor of sociology, an affiliated faculty in the Women & Gender Studies Program, and the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of San Diego, …

Heidi Boghosian is the former executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, a progressive bar association established in 1937. She co-hosts the weekly civil liberties radio program, 'Law and …

John Dennehy grew up in New York but moved out of the country when President Bush was re-elected. For five years he lived in the developing world, mostly in …

Rainey Reitman serves as director of the activism team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She is particularly interested in the intersection between personal privacy and technology, particularly social networking …

Xavier Best is a writer and independent political critic who resides in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the former vice president of Amnesty International at Georgia Southern University and maintains a regularly updated …

Michael Nevradakis is a Ph.D. candidate in media studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a US Fulbright Scholar presently based in Athens, Greece. Michael is also …

Ashton Pittman is a blogger at Deep South Progressive and a freelance writer at  Occupy.com.

Graham Peebles is an artist, writer and director of The Create Trust, a UK-registered charity he founded in 2006. He has run education projects and teacher training programmes in Palestine, …

Anna Vignet is a photographer for the San Francisco Public Press. She has photographed for the Daily Californian and San Francisco Chronicle, and is particularly interested in how people …