Barbara Olshansky is the Assistant Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Her current docket at the Center includes class action lawsuits concerning immigrants’ rights, race discrimination in employment and education, environmental justice and public health, and Native American rights. She has also challenged the military commissions held for those in Guantánamo Bay on U.S. constitutional and international law grounds. She is the author of three books about war detainees and military commissions, including Democracy Detained: Secret, Unconstitutional Practices in the U.S. War on Terror.

Award-winning investigative journalist Dave Lindorff is a columnist for Counterpunch magazine and author of Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal and This Can't Be Happening!: Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy.