Author Bios

The Virginia Defender is a statewide community newspaper published quarterly by the Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality in Richmond, Virginia, USA. For more information, visit www.DefendersFJE.org.

Mehrdad Azemun is national field director for National People's Action, based in Chicago, Illinois.

Norm Stamper was Seattle’s police chief from 1994 to 2000, and a police officer for 34 years. He is a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and the author …

Rev. Rich Lang is a pastor at University Temple United Methodist Church www.utemple.org. He can be emailed at [email protected].

Hakim is a physician from Singapore who has been living and working in Afghanistan for eight years. He began relief work near Quetta, on the border between Afghanistan and …

Adam DeRose is an online organizer for Interfaith Worker Justice.

Dr Hugh McDermott is senior lecturer in Law Enforcement at the CSU Australian Graduate School of Policing, Manly, and is the postgraduate course coordinator of all fraud and financial …

Nanette Asimov is a higher education reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Bhumika Muchhala is a policy analyst in the Development and Finance Programme at Third World Network (TWN).