Author Bios

Laurel Wales is deputy director of movement politics for People's Action.

Stephanie Basile is an organizer at The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America.

The author works as a server in a restaurant. Ursula Buffay is a pseudonym. 

Maria Silvestri is a contributor to Socialist Worker. 

Fred Redmond is executive vice president of the United Steelworkers and chairman of the board of the A. Philip Randolph Institute.

Charles Derber is professor of sociology at Boston College and author, most recently, of Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times.

After serving in the United States Air Force as a surgeon for 21 years, LeRoy Carhart retired as a Lt. Colonel. He has been providing abortion care for over …

Annie McGrew is a special assistant for Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress.

Angela Hanks is the associate director for Workforce Development Policy on the Economic Policy team at the Center for American Progress.

Thomas Woodbury is a public interest attorney, ecopsychologist and advocate for the Earth who lives in Missoula, Montana. He is the author of Climate Sense: Changing the Way We Think & Feel About Our Climate …