Author Bios

Physician Philip Caper of Brooklin is a founding board member of Maine AllCare, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group committed to making health care in Maine universal, accessible and affordable for …

Mark Snyder is an independent human rights activist who has been living in Haiti, coordinating with Haitian civil society movements since 2008. After the January 2010 earthquake, his main …

Paromita Pain is a contributor to Occupy.com.

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 …