Author Bios

Mitu Sengupta is an associate professor in the department of politics and public administration at Ryerson University and the director of the Centre for Development and Human Rights. 

Amanda Wilson is working as a correspondent with Inter Press Service in Washington, DC. 

Larry Cohen is president of the Communications Workers of America, which represents 700,000 working men and women in communications, media, airlines, manufacturing, health care and public service.

Erich Vieth is an iconoclastic consumer attorney, musician and writer living in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. He and his wife Anne Jay have two daughters, aged …

Kristina Kallas is a pro-bono attorney at the Global Justice Center, an international human rights NGO and practices law in New York City.

Jonathan Leavitt is a journalist and community organizer in Burlington, Vermont. His writings on social movements have been published in Z Magazine, In These Times, CounterPunch, Truthout, Towards Freedom and …