Author Bios

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, Professor Emerita at New Jersey City University, is an activist-scholar who has written widely about education politics, teachers’ work, and teachers unions. She is a member of …

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 …