Contributor Bios

The Editors

Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of CounterPunch and author of 11 books, including the best-sellers Whiteout: CIA, Drugs and the Press; Al Gore: a User’s Manual; Five Days That Shook the World; and most recently Born Under a Bad Sky. St. Clair was born and raised in Indiana.

Joshua Frank, a regular contributor to CounterPunch, is the author of Left Out! How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush and with Jeffrey St. Clair of the forthcoming Green Scare: The New War on Environmentalism. He was born and raised in Montana.

The Contributors

Rose Aguilar is a journalist writing a book about her experiences in “red states”.

Justin Akers Chacón, along with Mike Davis, is the author of No One is Illegal. He was born and raised in Mexico. His reports from the border war first appeared in the Socialist Worker.

Kevin Gray is a CounterPunch contributer and civil rights organizer who resides in Columbia, South Carolina.

Joe Bageant is the author of the best-selling Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War. He was raised in Winchester, Virginia.

Julene Bair is author of One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter. She lives in Kansas.

John Blair is president of the environment health advocacy group, Valley Watch and earned a Pulitzer Prize for news Photography in 1978. He lives in Indiana.

Alan Bock is Senior Essayist at the Orange County Register. He is the author of Ambush at Ruby Ridge. He is also author of the new book Waiting to Inhale: The Politics of Medical Marijuana.

Michele Bollinger writes for the Socialist Worker.

Ward Churchill is a scholar, indigenous rights activist and author of many books, including On the Justice of Roosting Chickens.

Nicole Colson is a contributor to CounterPunch.

Carrie Dann is a member of the Western Shoshone tribe and has been active in the movement to recover millions of acres of land that originally belonged to the Shoshone peoples but was seized by the U.S. government as part of the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is an American professor of ethnic studies. In addition to many scholarly books and articles, she has published three memoirs, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie; Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975; and Blood on the Border. Dunbar-Ortiz was raised in rural Oklahoma.

Julie Fishel is a lawyer for the Western Shoshone Defense Project.

Jordan Flaherty is an activist and an editor of Left Turn Magazine. He lives in New Orleans.

Steven Higgs is editor of The Bloomington Alternative and lives in Indiana.

Lily Hughes writes for the Socialist Worker.

Dean Kuipers writes for the Los Angeles Times and is the author of Burning Rainbow Farm.

Josh Mahan edits Lowbagger.org, the web’s most un-PC environmental rag. He lives in Montana and rides the roaring rivers of the West whenever he can.

Bob Moser is a Nation contributing writer. His book about Democrats and the South will be published in summer 2008.

Greg Moses is the editor of the Texas Civil Rights Review and author of Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Philosophy of Nonviolence. He lives in Texas.

Ted Nace is the author of the best-selling Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy. Nace is the founder of Peachpit Press, the world’s leading publisher of books on computer graphics and desktop publishing. Prior to that he worked as a freelance writer and served as staff director of the Dakota Resource Council, helping rural communities deal with the impact of strip mines and power plants. He was raised in North Dakota.

Brenda Norrell has been a news reporter in Indian country for 23 years, working as a staff reporter for Navajo Times and Indian Country Today and as an AP correspondent during the 18 years she lived on the Navajo Nation. She is currently a freelance writer based in Tucson and a contributor to CounterPunch.

Andrea Peacock is the author of Libby, Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American Corporation and co-author, with Doug Peacock, of The Essential Grizzly. She lives in Montana.

Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola Law School in New Orleans.

Mike Roselle, “Man Without a Bioregion,” is cofounder of Earth First!; the Rainforest Action Network and the Ruckus Society and has been instrumental in virtually every famous GreenPeace stunt. His dispatches from the road can be read on Lowbagger.org.

Eric Ruder is a writer for the Socialist Worker.

Kirkpatrick Sale is the author of twelve books, including Human Scale, The Conquest of Paradise, Rebels Against the Future, and The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream.

David Underhill was a radio talk show host for many years in Mobile, Alabama until he was fired after repeated failures to rectify his persistent political incorrectness.

Jesse Walker is the managing editor of Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America.

Kelpie Wilson is the environmental editor for Truthout.org, where she writes a regular column.