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Tessa Simonds

Tessa implements Internet-based campaigns and projects to encourage online activism, advocacy and fundraising. She is also a teaching fellow in digital strategy at the New Organizing Institute. Tessa earned …
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Carmelle Wolfson

Carmelle Wolfson is a multimedia journalist in Toronto who has been reporting on Grassy Narrows since 2006 when she first visited the blockade. For more of her work go …
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Brian Jones

Brian Jones is a teacher and activist in New York. He is a member of the Movement of Rank and File Educators, the social justice caucus of the United …
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David Howell

David Howell is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy and directs the Doctoral Program in Public and Urban Policy at The New School. He is an affiliated member …
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Jesse Fruhwirth

Jesse Fruhwirth is a movement journalist and community organizer in Salt Lake City. Follow him at @fruhwirth.
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Sarah L. Blum

Sarah L. Blum is a decorated nurse Vietnam Veteran, still serving as a nurse psychotherapist with 34 years experience healing PTSD. She is the author of Women Under Fire: …
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Jon Wiener

Jon Wiener teaches American history at the University of California-Irvine and is a contributing editor at the Nation. His latest book, 'How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical …
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Kenneth J. Bernstein

Kenneth J. Bernstein is a public school teacher in Prince George’s County, Md., and a blogger whose work appears on Daily Kos and other sites.