Author Bios

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.

Alejandro Reuss is co-editor of Dollars & Sense and an instructor at the Labor Relations and Research Center, UMass-Amherst.

Nora Barrows-Friedman is a journalist and staff editor with The Electronic Intifada. Her book, In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine, will be out in November …

John Light is a writer and digital producer for the Moyers team. His work has appeared at The Atlantic, Grist, Mother Jones, Salon, Slate, Vox and Al Jazeera, and …

Ted (Edward P.) Morgan is professor of political science at Lehigh University and the author of What Really Happened to the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy.