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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS BRIAN D. BEHNKEN is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the U.S. Latino/a Studies Program at Iowa State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. He specializes in twentieth-century Mexican American and African American history, focusing on comparative race relations and civil rights. Behnken is the author of several articles, the monograph Fighting Their Own Battles: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas (forthcoming), and editor of the collection The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era (forthcoming). DAN BERGER studies and writes about race, media, prison, and American social movements since World War II. He is the author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (2006) and co-editor of Letters From Young Activists (2005). His writings have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and progressive publications. Berger was a Mellon Dissertation Fellow in 2009–2010 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. He is the George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2010–2012). ELIZABETH CASTLE is an assistant professor of American Indian Studies at the University of South Dakota and co-founder of the Warrior Women Project (www.warriowomen.org). She previously held a position as an academic specialist at the Regional Oral History Office at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2003–2005, as the recipient of a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, she worked under the mentorship of Professors Bettina Aptheker and Angela Davis at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her book Women Were the Backbone, Men Were the Jawbone: American Indian Women’s Activism in the Red Power Movement will be published by Oxford University Press. While completing her Ph.D. in history at the University of Cambridge, she worked for President Bill Clinton’s Initiative on Race as a policy associate. ANDREW CORNELL is a Ph.D. candidate at New York University, where he is completing a dissertation on anarchist movements in the United States during the 285 mid-twentieth century. He has worked as an organizer in labor, global justice, and antiprison movements, and his writing appears in Left Turn, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, MRzine, and The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace (2008). ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ is professor emerita of ethnic studies at California State University, Hayward. She received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA. She is a longtime activist on behalf of indigenous sovereignty and is the author of many books on the subject. Additionally, she is the author of three memoirs, most recently Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra Years (2005). She is a regular contributor to Monthly Review, among other publications. VICTORIA LAW is a writer, photographer, mother, and a co-founder of Books Through Bars—New York City, an organization that sends free radical literature and books to prisoners nationwide. She is editor of the ’zine Tenacious: Writings from Women in Prison and also the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (2009). PAUL MAGNO is a longtime member of the Catholic Worker Movement and lives in Washington, DC. He participated in the Pershing Plowshares action at Easter/Passover/Earthday 1984 and served twenty months in federal prison as a result. He received his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in 1978; his further education at the hands of many nonviolent revolutionaries, some referenced herein, continues today. MATT MEYER is founding chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, former national chair of the War Resisters League, and currently the educational director of a small alternative high school in New York City. Meyer is the author of Time Is Tight: Urgent Tasks for Educational Transformation—Eritrea, South Africa, and the U.S.A. (2007), and co-author of Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle, and Liberation (2000). He is the editor of Let Freedom Ring: Documents from the Movement to Free U.S. Political Prisoners (2008) and of the recently published two-volume set, Seeds of New Hope: Pan African Peace Studies for the 21st Century (2009 and forthcoming). On the local level, he is a member of Resistance in Brooklyn. SCOTT RUTHERFORD is currently studying history at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His dissertation, tentatively titled...

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