Michael Hardt is a political philosopher
at Duke University and co-author of the book Empire.
Richard Chase Smith is a cultural anthropologist
who has been working with Amazonian peoples since the 1960s. He
is founder and director of the Instituto
del Bien Común (Institute for the Common Good), Lima,
Peru.
Billie Jean Isbell
is a cultural anthropologist and former
director of the Latin American Studies
Program, Cornell University.