Author Bios

Erin Haney is a criminal defense attorney in San Francisco, California. The views expressed here are hers alone and not those of her employer.

Ben Stewart is head of media relations at Greenpeace. He was one of the six protesters cleared of criminal damage to Kingsnorth power station in a groundbreaking trial whose …

Phil Thompson is an urban planner and political scientist. He received a B.A. in Sociology from Harvard University in 1977, a M.U.P. from Hunter College in 1986, and a PhD. in …

Tanya Steele wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Tanya is a filmmaker and cultural critic who resides in Brooklyn, New York. She received an M.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School …

Jackie S. is an activist living in Chicago.

John Hanrahan, currently on the editorial board of ExposeFacts, is a former executive director of The Fund for Investigative Journalism and reporter for  The Washington Post, The Washington Star, UPI …

Courtney J. Parker is a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia College of Public Health. Courtney has published academic writing on Indigenous community media and health, as well …

John Ahniwanika Schertow is an internationally recognized editor and publisher, a self-taught web developer and an award winning journalist of Kanienkehaka and mixed-European descent. For the past nine years, …

Nicolas Pelham has reported on the Arab world for over twenty years. His article in this issue will appear in different form in a 
forthcoming book on the Middle …

Eve Hayes de Kalaf is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Aberdeen. Prior to graduating with Distinction in Modern Language Studies from the University of Nottingham in 2005, …