Authors

Félix Jiménez Félix Jiménez

Félix Jiménez, a visiting scholar at Columbia University, is a professor of cultural studies at Universidad del Sagrado Corazon in Puerto Rico and a former CNN producer.

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Michael Meltsner Michael Meltsner

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Jane Lazarre Jane Lazarre

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David K. Shipler David K. Shipler

David K. Shipler’s latest books are two companion volumes on civil liberties, The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties and Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America. He writes online at the Shipler Report (shiplerreport.blogspot.com).

Apr 29, 2010

Camilo José Vergara Camilo José Vergara

Camilo José Vergara, a Chilean-born photographer and writer, was presented with the National Humanities Medal by President Obama in 2013.

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David M. Kotz David M. Kotz

David M. Kotz is author of The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism, Harvard University Press, 2015 (January).

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Dan Rather Dan Rather

Dan Rather, the former news anchor for CBS Evening News, is the managing editor and anchor of the TV newsmagazine Dan Rather Reports on HDNet.

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Eric Mann Eric Mann

Eric Mann, director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, is a veteran of the Congress of Racial Equality, the host of KPFK’s Voices From the Frontlines and author of Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Eileen Boris Eileen Boris

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Tom Tomorrow Tom Tomorrow

Tom Tomorrow’s nationally syndicated political cartoon, This Modern World, has run in alternative papers around the country for more than twenty years.  His cartoons and illustrations have been featured in The New York Times, US News & World Report, The New Yorker, The American Prospect, The Nation, Spin and Esquire, and on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann. He was awarded the first place Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Cartooning in 1998 and again in 2003. He has also been awarded the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Society of Professional Journalists’ James Madison Freedom of Information Award, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and the Association for Education in Journalism Professional Freedom and Responsiblity Award. In the early years of the Bush administration, his work was adapted into a series of online animations, which can be viewed at thismodernworld.com/animation-and-film. He has been blogging since October of 2001, making him one of the earliest pioneers of the liberal blogosphere. He is the author of nine previous cartoon compilations and one book for children, and in 2009 collaborated with the band Pearl Jam to create the artwork for their album, Backspacer. A long time resident of both San Francisco and Brooklyn, he currently lives just outside of New Haven, Connecticut with his wife and son.

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