Author Bios

Jack Heyman has worked 45 years in the maritime industry as a seaman and as an Oakland longshoreman.

Rob Nixon is the Rachel Carson Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His most recent book is Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard …

Sheri Stuart is a freelance writer with Inland Valley News, where she covers education issues. She received a 2011 NAM Education Beat Fellowship for ethnic media journalists on the …

James K. Boyce and Léonce Ndikumana are the authors of Africa’s Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent, forthcoming in October in the African Arguments …

Will Potter is the author of ‘Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege,’ recently published by City Lights.

Gabriel Thompson is currently working on a biography of legendary community organizer Fred Ross. He is the author of “Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs …

Michael Ratner is president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents WikiLeaks and Julian Assange as well as other journalists and major news organizations seeking to make …