Author Bios

Zanyar Omrani is an Iranian Kurd who is an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker. You can watch some of his documentaries at his YouTube channel.

Dr. Dennis R. Koehn is a management consultant and university instructor. His interest in war and nonviolence was ignited during the Vietnam War, when he publicly refused to register …

Scrappers Film Group takes its name from their documentary Scrappers, which chronicles the story of two men and their families who collect scrap in Chicago's alleyways and was named …

Jean Stevens is a freelance journalist and attorney based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in RHRealityCheck.org, Guernica, Dissent, On the Issues and Vitals magazines.

Auset Marian Lewis' commentary and analysis have been published in over 50 media outlets from coast to coast and abroad. She was the first African American female columnist for …

Leia Petty is a socialist and activist living in Brooklyn, New York.

Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist, a researcher with CODEPINK, and the author of Blood On Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.

Zach Schwartz-Weinstein studies labor and universities and recently completed a Ph.D. in American studies at New York University, where he organized with GSOC-UAW Local 2110.