Camila Vergara is a critical legal theorist, historian, journalist, and public intellectual from Chile writing on the relation between inequality, corruption, and domination. She is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights at Columbia University Law School, and author of Systemic Corruption. Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic (Princeton University Press 2020). She also is currently advising local councils in Chile to participate in the ongoing constituent process, and her current affairs essays have appeared in Jacobin Magazine, the Boston Review and Sidecar, the new online publication from the New Left Review. Cause to support: Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit, public interest law firm providing free and affordable legal services, education and organizing help to communities facing threats to their local environment, agriculture, economy, and quality of life, in the U.S. and countries around the world. https://celdf.org/

Albert Weale is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy in the Department of Political Science, University College London, where he still teaches and researches. Earlier in his career he worked at the Universities of Newcastle, York, East Anglia and Essex. He stayed at Essex more than 17 years. His research and writing have concentrated on issues of political theory and public policy, especially health policy, environmental policy, the theory of justice and democratic theory. In addition to over one hundred papers and chapters, he has authored, co-authored or co-edited nineteen books. He has published widely on social values and health policy, editing Cost and Choice in Health Care for the King’s Fund in 1988 and, as part of the KCL/UCL Social Values Group, has recent articles in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Journal of Health Organization and Managementand the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. In environmental policy, his works include The New Politics of Pollution (Manchester University Press, 1992) and with others Environmental Governance in Europe (Oxford University Press, 2000), as well as the edited Risk, Democratic Citizenship and Public Policy (Oxford University Press, 2002). His work on environmental policy led to research on the European Union more generally and in this field his published work includes, as sole author, Democratic Citizenship and the European Union (Manchester University Press, 2005), as co-author and as co-editor Citizenship, Democracy and Justice in the New Europe, with Percy Lehning (Routledge, 1997) and Political Theory and the European Union, with Michael Nentwich (Routledge, 1998). His latest book. Modern Social Contract Theory, was published by Oxford University Press in June 2020, and it is the first systematic study of the full range of those modern social contract theories that have been developed since 1950. The work follows from his previous book Democratic Justice and the Social Contract (Oxford University Press, 2013). In September 2018 he published The Will of the People: A Modern Myth (Polity Press), a response to the misplaced populism of the Conservative Party in the wake of the 2016 referendum and the global trend against the principles of constitutional democracy. He is a former co-editor of two books series, Issues in Political Theory (Macmillan) and Issues in Environmental Politics (Manchester University Press), as well as of the British Journal of Political Science. In 1998 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and between 2008 and 2012 was one of its Vice-Presidents with special responsibility for Public Policy. In 2013 he awarded a CBE for services to Political Science.

Zack Walsh is a Senior Researcher of Economics at the One Project. He completed doctoral coursework in Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology. He holds an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from Foguang University, Taiwan and a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Denison University. He was a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany where he co-led the A Mindset for the Anthropocene (AMA) project. He is also a fellow of the Courage of Care Coalition and a partner of the Institute for Ecological Civilization. His publications focus on the integration of social justice, sustainability, and systems change.

Rayelle Davis is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor practicing in Western Md. She has lived in Appalachia for my entire life and started working as a counselor as the crisis of the opioid epidemic heavily impacted this area. She continues to work as a therapist and has went back to school to earn her PhD. Cultural factors that impact mental health treatment delivery in rural area such as Appalachia is my passion and research focus

Gavin Mueller is a lecturer in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy (Routledge, 2019) and Breaking Things at Work (Verso, 2021), and a member of the editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine.

Brendan McQuade earned his BA at Hampshire College and MA and PhD at Binghamton University (SUNY). He previously taught at DePaul University in the International Studies Department and at SUNY-Cortland in the Sociology/Anthropology Department. His areas of interest are historical sociology, state theory, the critique of security, and social movements. His most recent book is Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019

Tanner Mirrlees is an associate professor in the Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University. Mirrlees is the author of Hearts and Mines: The US Empire’s Cultural Industry (UBC Press, 2016), Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization (Routledge, 2013), co-author of EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2019), and co-editor of Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). Mirrlees participates in Toronto-based community organizations such as the Centre for Social Justice and the Socialist Project, and over the past three years, he was a co-organizer of The Capitalism Workshop, a series of public talks downtown Toronto that brought together educators, workers, students, and activists to collectively discuss and debate knowledge about capitalism, as well as old and new Left strategies and tactics for going beyond it. If you would like to donate to "The Socialist Project" you can do so at the following link: https://socialistproject.ca/donate/ *Please note GM closed down auto assembly at the Oshawa plant and plans to convert some of the old facility into a test track for autonomous vehicles. Green Jobs Oshawa continues to campaign for the public ownership and reconfiguration of the plant for socially and ecologically sustainable manufacturing. Learn more about Green Jobs Oshawa here: https://www.greenjobsoshawa.ca/

A. Naomi Paik is an associate professor of Asian American studies with appointments in Gender & Women's studies and History at the  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She published Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II (UNC Press, 2016; winner, Best Book in History, AAAS 2018; runner-up, John  Hope Franklin prize for best book in American Studies, ASA, 2017). Her book Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century (University of California Press), examines the long-developing criminalization of foreign-born people in the United States and the need for radical, abolitionist approaches to sanctuary. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript on the most capacious meaning of “sanctuary for all” and developing another on military  outsourcing. As a board member of the Radical History Review, she has co-edited three special issues of the journal—on “Militarism and Capitalism (Winter 2019), “Radical Histories of Sanctuary” (Fall 2019), and “Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination” (Spring 2020). She has published articles in Social Text, Radical History Review, Cultural Dynamics, Race & Class, e-misferica, Humanity, The Conversation, The Funambulist, and the collection Guantánamo and American Empire. She is the IPRH-Mellon fellow in Legal Humanities (2019-2022), working to build the legal humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. With Toby Beauchamp, she is organizing a series of events on "Abolition" as a Resident Associate of the Center for Advanced Study (2019-present). Her research and teaching interests include comparative ethnic studies; U.S. imperialism; U.S. militarism; social and cultural  approaches to legal studies; transnational and women of color feminisms; carceral spaces; and labor, race, and migration. New Book: "Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century): https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520305120/bans-walls-raids-sanctuary The guest would like to note that the man detained at Guantanamo who connected his condition with George Floyd's murder is not Moath al-Alwi. For more information see: https://www.newsweek.com/guantanamo-bay-black-lives-matter-hope-1511940 For more information about abolitionist events see: https://abolitionjournal.org/studyguide/

Professor Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. He has also written extensively about the film industry. Dr. Horne received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. from Princeton University. He is the author of more than thirty books and one hundred scholarly articles and reviews. His current research includes an examination of U.S.-Southern African relations since the so-called “Anglo-Boer War” at the end of the 19th century and an analysis of the Political Economy of the music called “Jazz” from the late 19th century to the present. Latest Book "The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century": https://nyupress.org/9781583678725/the-dawning-of-the-apocalypse/

Priyamvada Gopal is a Professor in Anglophone and Related Literatures in the Faculty of English and Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence, The Indian English Novel: Nation, History and Narration, and Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent.