Author Bios

The Rev. Howard Bess is a retired American Baptist minister, who lives in Palmer, Alaska.  His email address is [email protected].

Federico Fuentes was co-author with Roger Burbach and Michael Fox of Latin America's Turbulent Transitions: The Future of 21st Century Socialism and is a regular contributor to Green Left …

Robert Sharlet, a long time academic, is co-authoring a memoir of his brother Jeff - a Vietnam GI and, subsequently, a leader of GI protest against the war - …

Lois Weiner is a former teacher and union activist who is Professor Emerita at New Jersey City University. She writes widely on education and teachers unions, and is completing …

Zelig Stern is an organizer with the Communications Workers (CWA).

Bianca Cunningham is a retail sales representative at a Verizon Wireless store in Brooklyn.

Kristian Davis Bailey is a senior at Stanford University and a member of the Students for Justice in Palestine national movement. View more of his stories from his time …

Manash Bhattacharjee is a poet and a political science scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has contributed essays, articles and reviews to Huffington Post, Outlook, The Hindu, …

Amantha Perera is a journalist and foreign correspondent based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He covers Sri Lanka for a variety of international media outlets.

James A. Mitchell is the author of The Walrus and the Elephants: John Lennon's Years of Revolution (Seven Stories Press).