Author Bios

Julia Chaitin Ph.D., teaches in the Department of Social Work, Sapir Academic College, and lives on Kibbutz Urim, Hanegev, Israel.

John Agnew is a professor of geography at UCLA. Claudio Guler is a senior correspondent for ISN Security Watch.

James McEnteer is the author of Shooting the Truth: the Rise of American Political Documentaries. He lives in Quito, Ecuador.

Joshua Greer is a writer, musician, and activist currently living in Nashville, TN. He has previously worked with the Louisiana Public Interest Research Group in New Orleans, LA and …

James E. Jennings Ph.D. is the president of Conscience International and executive director of US Academics for Peace.

Annie Shields is a St. Louis native and a graduate of the University of Missouri- St. Louis, where she studied sociology and women's and gender studies. Now she lives …

William J. Astore is a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) who teaches history at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. William Blau is a veteran of the US Army Air Corps …

Lynn Parramore is senior research analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. A cultural theorist who studies the intersection of culture and economics, she is contributing editor at …

Linda Pershing is a women's studies professor at California State University San Marcos. Lauren Rains is a recent graduate of Cal State San Marcos, with a major in women's …

Linda Pershing is currently on a research/sabbatical semester and living in Copenhagen through May. She attended and documented both rallies described in this essay and is professor of cultural …