Bill Weinberg is an award-winning 25-year veteran journalist in the fields of human rights, indigenous peoples, ecology and war. He is the author of Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico, now available from Verso Books, and War on the Land: Ecology and Politics in Central America (Zed Books, 1991). As a correspondent and contributing editor for Native Americas, Cornell University's quarterly journal of hemispheric indigenous issues, he has won three awards from the Native American Journalists Association for his reportage from Nicaragua to Arizona. His work has appeared in The Nation, Newsday, The Village Voice, Pacific News Service/New America Media, AlterNet,  NACLA Report on the Americas, Middle East Policy,  Toward Freedom, In These Times, Yes! Magazine, Indian Country Today, The Amsterdam News, The Ecologist, Earth Island Journal, City Limits, Cannabis Culture and numerous other publications. He also served as news editor at High Times in the 1990s, covering the global war on drugs, and was a regular contributor to New York's Guardian newsweekly in its final years. With Ann-Marie Hendrickson, he co-produces the anarchist variety show Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade (Tuesdays at midnight on WBAI-NY, 99.5 FM). He lives on New York's Lower East Side, where he contributes to the local radical broadsheet, The Shadow.

David Bloom is a professional researcher and journalist. A graduate of Cornell University in history, his work has appeared in The Nation (online edition), Electronic Intifada, The Palestine Chronicle, San Francisco Bay View,  Counterpunch, Antifa Info-Bulletin, The Shadow, International Middle East Media Center News, The Palestine Monitor, and al-Arab online. He lives in New York's Greenwich Village.

Sarah Ferguson is a freelance journalist and former radio pirate whose work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Nation, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, High Times, Esquire, Details, Vibe, Spin, City Limits, The San Francisco Chronicle, Pacific News Service, World Business and other publications. Her blog is Duchess of New York. She lives on New York's Lower East Side.

Peter Gorman has been covering the War on Drugs as an investigative journalist for nearly two decades. While most of that time has been spent with High Times magazine—where he was executive editor for several years—he has also been published in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the on-line Narco News Bulletin and numerous other newspapers and magazines. During the past several years he has spent much time in Peru, investigating the impacts of US-imposed Drug War militarization in that country first hand. He has recently launched his own blog.

Chesley Hicks is a freelance writer and editor, traveler, and bicyclist. Her work has appeared in various publications including The Boston Phoenix, The Gotham Gazette, High Times, Soundviews and TimeOut New York. She lives in New York City.

Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero is director of the Proyecto de Bioseguridad Puerto Rico, a research associate at the Institute for Social Ecology and a senior fellow at the Environmental Leadership Program. His blog is on-line at: http://carmeloruiz.blogspot.com

Subuhi Jiwani is a journalist, poet, and essayist who has a degree in Cultural Studies from Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research. Her journalistic work has appeared in Samar: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection and on Z Net. Her creative work has appeared in Lines Magazine. She lives in New York City.

Daniel Leal Diaz studied psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia, and addiction at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, and the Cenaps Corporation in Los Angeles, CA. He has worked as a therapist for alcohol and drug rehab programs in Mexico and Colombia. He has also worked with the International Antiprohibitionist League as a researcher and translator in their program on legalization of the coca bush. He has written on the impacts of prohibitionism in Colombia for Info-Drogas in Spain. He currently works with the Pain Relief Network. He lives in Brooklyn and can be reached at: dfld76@hotmail.com

Sarah Robbins is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in Newsday, ArtNews, TimeOut New York and The American Book Review, among other publications. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she also received a degree in literature. Born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, Robbins lives in New York City. She is currently at work on a novel. 

Wynde Priddy is a musician, activist and aspiring journalist. Born in Texas, she now lives in Harlem, New York, and works at WBAI Radio.