Author Bios

Rick Baldoz is a contributor to Speakout.

The Shutdown Collective came together to help build for the general strikes this spring and is composed of organizers from Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York City …

Andrea Muehlebach is a professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto, currently conducting research on water struggles in Europe.

Laura Durkay is a filmmaker and member of the International Socialist Organization in New York City. She has written film and television criticism for The Washington Post, Red Wedge …

Peter Kalmus is an Earth scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech (speaking on his own behalf) and a contributing editor for YES! Magazine. His book, Being the Change: …

An organizer and autonomist, Kevin Van Meter is the author of Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible (IAS/AK Press, 2017); co-editor …

Mary Sweeters is a climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace USA. She works to fight the undue influence of the oil industry in solidarity with communities affected by oil …

Monte Mills is an assistant professor of law and co-director at the Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic at the University of Montana. 

Anne Cummings Jacopetti is a retired teacher, administrator and writer who lives in Santa Rosa, California. Her book, What Are We Going to Learn Today: How All Children Can Become Enthusiastic Lifelong Learners, is available …

Ken Levy is the Holt B. Harrison associate professor of law at LSU Law School.