Raul Zibechi Editor & Author

Oscar Olivera is president of the Cochabamba Federation of Factory Workers and 2001 winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize.

Raul Zibechi is a radio and print journalist, writer, militant and political theorist. He has contributed to the weekly newspaper Brecha. He is author of Constructing Worlds Otherwise.

Massimiliano Tomba’s work focuses on time and temporalities, Marxism, critical theory (especially the first generation of the Frankfurt School), and modern and contemporary political thought. He is author of Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity.

Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar is an organizer who has participated in numerous struggles and uprisings in Latin America over the last four decades. From the civil wars in Central America in the 1980s to Indigenous-led uprisings in the Bolivian altiplano, she has contributed to struggles both as an active participant and as a theorist of movement strategies, horizons, and possibilities. She is the author of In Defense of Common Life.

Marcela Olivera is a water commons organizer based in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Since 2004 she has been helping to develop and consolidate an inter-American citizens’ network on water justice named Red VIDA. She is also member of the Platform for Public and Community Partnerships of The Americas (PAPC), an organization that promotes knowledge exchange among water utilities based on solidarity and horizontal cooperation.

Alexander Dwinell is an organizer, editor, designer, and artist. He is a former member of the South End Press collective and founding bookseller of The Word Is Change.