Author Bios

Sarah Gold is a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus.

Jon Flanders spent 25 years as a Railroad Machinist, member and past President of IAM 1145. Steering committee member of Railroad Workers United. Retired. He can be reached at:  [email protected].

Grahame Russell has worked on human rights issues in Guatemala since 1989. Since 1995, he has been director of Rights Action. A non-practicing lawyer and part-time adjunct professor at University …

Prashanth Kamalakanthan is a summer intern for TomDispatch.com.

William I. Robinson is a distinguished professor of sociology, global studies and Latin American studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His most recent book is Can …

Sean McElwee graduated for the King's College in 2012. His work has been featured in The Day, New Politics and the Norwich Bulletin and on The Moderate Voice, Washington …

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 …