Author Bios

Russell Brown is a member of Veteran's for Peace and the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars and is based in Buffalo, NY.

Erika Eichelberger is a senior editorial fellow at Mother Jones where she writes regularly for the website. She is also director of social media for TomDispatch. She has written for the Nation, …

Nathan Fuller is a writer and activist, formerly with the Chelsea Manning Support Network, now writing at NathanLFuller.com.

Megan Cowell is a Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs.

Helen Jaccard is Chair of the Veterans For Peace - Environmental Cost of War and Militarism Working Group.  She spent October, 2012 in Vieques doing research about the environmental …

Erik Forman has been active in the Industrial Workers of the World since 2005, working and organizing at Starbucks and Jimmy John's. He is currently compiling a report on …

Ed Felien is publisher and editor of Southside Pride, a South Minneapolis monthly where this article was also published.