Author Bios

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 Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara.  His most recent book is Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism (2026).

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 …

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, …