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Ester Reiter
Ester Reiter is a Senior Scholar in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, York University. The research for this book was adapted by director Ruth Howard of Jumblies Theatre for a play called Oy di Velt (Oh the World) first performed at Camp Naivelt and then remounted at Mayworks in 2009. Reiter is the author of Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan to the Fryer.
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Sophia Reuss
Sophia Reuss worked as a part-time assistant editor at rabble from 2017 to 2020. She currently works as a labour communicator in the United States.
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Michael Riordon
A Canadian writer and documentary-maker for almost four decades, Michael Riordon generates books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, and plays for radio and stage. A primary goal of his work is to recover voices of people who have been silenced in the mainstream, written out of the official version.
Michael Riordon teaches writing, and has written four books of oral history: Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine, Eating Fire: Family Life on the Queer Side, An Unauthorized Biography of the World, and Out Our Way: Gay and Lesbian Life in Rural Canada. He lives near Picton, Ontario.
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Wayne Roberts
Wayne Roberts was a leading North American writer, activist, and practitioner in community food security. Long-time manager of the renowned Toronto Food Policy Council, he wrote and spoke around the world on subjects relating food and cities. He served on the board of many leading food organizations, including Community Food Security Coalition, Food Secure Canada, FoodShare and Unitarian Service Committee—Seeds of Diversity.
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Bonnie Robichaud
Bonnie Robichaud is a union activist, public speaker, mentor, and a recognized pioneer and leader in the fight for human rights. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Ann Rogers
Ann Rogers teaches international relations and media studies at Royal Roads University. She is the author of Secrecy and Power in the British State.
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Jesper Roine
Jesper Roine is an expert on wealth and income inequality. His research work has contributed to the World Top Incomes Database upon which Thomas Piketty’s own research is based.
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Steve Rolles
Steve Rolles is a writer and policy analyst at the drug reform organization, Transform. He is the lead author of After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation and a regular contributor to the public debate on drug policy and law.
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Franklin Rosemont
Before his death in 2009, Franklin Rosemont wrote nearly thirty books, including T-Bone Slim: Juice is Stranger than Friction, From Bughouse Square to the Beat Generation, Selected Ravings of Slim Brundage, and Penelope: a Poem.
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David Rosenberg
David Rosenberg is author of Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Radical History and is on the editorial collective of Jewish Socialist magazine.
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Stephanie Ross
Stephanie Ross is an associate professor in the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University. Her teaching and research focus on the politics and dynamics of labour movements, especially how unions deal with key questions of structure, democracy, bargaining priorities, political vision, political strategy, and collective identity. She has long been interested in the role of culture in working-class communities and in labour movement renewal and is a past board member of the Workers’ Arts and Heritage Centre. She is co-author of Building a Better World: An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada.
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Käthe Roth
Käthe Roth was born in Montreal and now lives in Saint-Lazare, Quebec. She has been a literary translator and editor for more than twenty-five years. Her work includes over thirty translated books and essays of literary non-fiction on various subjects, including art, architecture, economics, history, and sociology, as well as fiction.
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Kahentinetha Rotiskarewake
Kahentinetha Rotiskarewake is a Kanien’kehá:ka from the Bear Clan in Kahnawà:ke. Initially working in the fashion industry, Kahentinetha went on to play a key role as speaker and writer in the Indigenous resistance, a role which she has fulfilled consistently for the last six decades. During this time she witnessed and took part in numerous struggles, including the blockade of the Akwesasne border crossing in 1968. She has published several books including Mohawk Warrior Three, and has been in charge of running the Mohawk Nation News service since the Oka Crisis in 1990. She now cares for her twenty children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Kahentinetha means “she who is always at the forefront.”
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Elena Rowan
Elena Rowan is a graduate student and researcher in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Department of Psychology at Concordia University. Her research explores the intersections of culture and community in sociology, anthropology, and clinical psychology. Her graduate research looked at questions of community, copyright, and advocacy within libraries, published in Platform Power and Libraries. She produces the Data Justice Hub podcast.