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Cecilia Nowell

Cecilia Nowell is a freelance reporter focused on gender, health, and environmental stories in the Americas. Her writing has been published by The Guardian, KFF Health News, The Nation, …
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Brian Karem

Brian Karem is the former senior White House correspondent for Playboy. He has covered every presidential administration since Ronald Reagan, sued Donald Trump three times successfully to keep his …
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Sarmad Ishfaq

Sarmad Ishfaq is an independent researcher and writer whose work has been published by The Diplomat, Harvard, OpenDemocracy, Paradigm Shift and Eurasia Review, to name a few. He has …
Shirley Lung

Shirley Lung

Shirley Lung is a professor at City University of New York School of Law, where she teaches and writes about the conditions faced by low-wage workers, the intersection between …
JoAnn Lum

JoAnn Lum

JoAnn Lum is an organizer with the National Mobilization Against SweatShops (NMASS), a community-based workers’ center in New York City which is part of the Break the Chains Alliance. NMASS brings together …
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Marcy Newman

Marcy Newman is the author of The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies and is a founding member of the US Campaign for the Academic and …
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Robert Downen

Robert Downen is a reporter covering democracy and the threats to it, including extremism, disinformation and conspiracies. Before joining the Tribune in 2022, he worked for five years at the …
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Reema Saleh

Reema Saleh is an intern at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut.

brian bean

brian bean is a socialist agitator and organizer based in Chicago, founding editor of Rampant Magazine, member of the Tempest collective, and co-editor and contributor to the book Palestine: …