Author Bios

Arnold Cassola is former Secretary General of the European Green Party and former Member of the Italian Parliament.

  Evan Rohar is a former casual worker at the Port of Tacoma. He begins work at Labor Notes on Monday.

  Jon Rynn is the author of the book Manufacturing Green Prosperity: The power to rebuild the American middle class, available from Praeger Press. He holds a Ph.D. in …

Ariel Dorfman, served as a cultural adviser to Salvador Allende from 1970 to 1973. After the coup, Dorfman went into exile. Today he is recognized as one of Latin …

Michael Ashley is Professor of Astrophysics at University of New South Wales. He is a matchmaker for the Climate Science Rapid Response Team, the aim of which is to …

Fander Falconi is the coordinator of the doctoral programme of economic development at the Factultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)- Ecuador. He is currently at the International Institute of …

Mike Lofgren is a former congressional staff member and the author of The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted …

Richard von Weizsäcker is former President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Abby Goodnough is the Boston bureau chief for The New York Times. 

Václav Havel was president of the Czech Republic. Desmond Tutu is Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Richard von Weizsäcker is former president of …