Author Bios

Contributing writer at The Michigan Citizen 

John Halle teaches Music Theory at Bard College Conservatory of Music. A former Green Party alderman from New Haven, his political writings have appeared in Counterpunch, New Politics, the …

Rochelle Sharpe wrote this article under a MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellowship, a collaboration of New America Media and the Gerontological Society of America. Lisa Chedekel of the …

Reverend Simon Moyle is a Baptist minister and non-violent educator and activist with Pace e Bene Australia. He works at Urban Seed, a Christian organisation working with some of …

Erin L. McCoy wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas and practical actions. Erin worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer …

Claudia Buck is the Assistant Business Editor for the Sacramento Bee.

Matt Pearce is a journalist for the Los Angeles Times. [email protected]

Michael Johnson is an editor with Grassroots Economic Organizing and co-author of a book on regional co-operative economic development, forthcoming from Levellers Press. He is also a co-founder of SolidarityNYC and the Ganas Community.

Alfredo Acedo is a contributor to The Americas Program.