Author Bios

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).

Greg Ruggiero is an editor for City Lights Books. He began visiting Zapatista communities in August 1999, an offense for which he was detained, interrogated, and expelled from Mexico …

Erica Glaser is a second-year student at Columbia University with an interest in human rights in Latin America and a prospective major in neuroscience.