PATRICIA ADAMS is an economist and executive director of Probe International, a Toronto-based environmental organization.

A leading Indonesian critic of Indonesia's occupation of East Timor and suppression of democracy, DR. GEORGE ADITJONDRO lives in exile in Australia. He is now lecturing in sociology at Newcastle University.

NAZES AFROZ is a journalist based in Calcutta, India.

SARAH ANDERSON is a fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies.

The ASIA MONITOR RESOURCE CENTER is a labor rights organization based in Hong Kong.

JEFF BALLINGER is director of Press for Change, an advocacy group leading the campaign to force Nike to ensure its contractors respect basic labor rights.

DR. PATRICK BOND was assistant professor of health policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 1995 and presently works at the National Institute for Economic Policy in Johannesburg. He is a contributing writer to Multinational Monitor.

KATE BRONFENBRENNER is director of labor education research at New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.

JONATHAN BROWN is director of financial research for Essential Information KENNY BRUNO Kenny Bruno is a toxics campaigner with Greenpeace, and a Multinational Monitor contributing writer.

JOHN CAVANAGH is co-director of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies.

GARY COHEN is a co-founder of the Military Toxics Project, a national grassroots coalition working to hold the Pentagon responsible for its environmental and health problems.

MARCUS COLCHESTER is the director of the World Rainforest Movement of the Penang, Malaysia-based Forest Peoples Program.

MICHAELA BRUCKNER COOPER is a student and lecturer at George Washington University.

PETER COOPER is a researcher with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch; he previously worked for the Laogai Research Foundation.

ANDREA DAVIS is a journalist and information officer for Probe International.

MACDARA DOYLE is a journalist based in Dublin.

ANDREA DURBIN is director of international projects with Friends of the Earth.

CECE MODUPÉ FADOPÉ is a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C.

AL GEDICKS is the director of the Center for Alternative Mining Development Policy in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

ROSS GELBSPAN is the author of The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate. He has been an editor and reporter at The Boston Globe, the Washington Post, The Village Voice and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

DAVID GORDON is the co-director of the Siberian Forests Protection Project at the Pacific Environment and Resources Center in Sausalito, California.

Cartographer ZOLTAN GROSSMAN is a co-founder of the Midwest Treaty Network in Madison.

MARTHA GRUELLE covers the Teamsters for the Detroit-based monthly Labor Notes. She worked for the Teamsters for a Democratic Union from 1989 to 1993.

JOSEPH HANLON is a writer on southern Africa. His new book on the IMF in Mozambique, Peace Without Profit, will be published by James Currey and Heinemann in September.

RANDEL D. HANSON is a freelance writer for The Circle in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

MARK HORSTMAN is a Councillor of the Australian Conservation Foundation.

KORINNA HORTA is an environmental economist with the Environmental Defense Fund and contributing writer to Multinational Monitor.

NITYANAND JAYARAMAN is a journalist based in Bangalore.

PAUL JEFFREY lives in Guatemala and writes regularly for Latin-America Press and the National Catholic Reporter.

DANNY KENNEDY is a freelance writer, who wrote a thesis on the Kutubu Petroleum Development Project while studying Human Geography at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

DESIREE KISSOON JODAH is a freelance reporter for the Guyana daily, The Stabroek News.

KEVIN M. KNIFFIN is a graduate student in anthropology at SUNY Binghamton.

ALICIA KORTEN has been working in Central America since 1992 and has published extensively on trade issues in the region.

MAGGIE LEDFORD LAWSON is a Prague-based writer with The Prague Post.

ANN LEONARD works for the Greenpeace International Toxic Trade Campaign.

JAKE LEWIS is editor of the Nader Letter on Banks and Consumers, and former professional staff member of the Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

ERIC LOTKE is associate director of the Arlington, Virginia-based National Criminal Justice Commission and associate editor of the Real War on Crime.

MAXINE LOWY is a human rights activist and writer based in Santiago, Chile.

LARRY LUXNER is editor-in-chief of South America Report, a monthly business newsletter based in Bethesda, Maryland.

J. DAVITT MCATEER is the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health.

CHRIS MCGINN is deputy director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch.

JEAN MCSORLEY works with Greenpeace in Sydney, Australia.

ROGER MOODY is director of NostRoMo Research, a mining development consultancy set up primarily to serve indigenous communities.

C. JAY OU is a graduate student in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

MATT PACENZA recently completed two years of work in Guatemala with Witness for Peace, a faith-based human rights organization. This story draws in large part on a report that he co-authored, "A People Dammed," released by Witness in April. Names used in this article are pseudonyms, given to protect Guatemalans often the target of violence for their efforts to tell the truth.

CHAKRAVARTHI RAGAVAN is chief editor of SUNS (South-North Development Monitor), a daily bulletin, and the Geneva representative of the Third World Network. This story was distributed by Third World Network Features.

LEIA RAPHAELIDIS is a member of the Nicaragua Long Term Team of Witness for Peace.

JAN RISPENS works for the Greenpeace International Toxic Trade Campaign.

BERNIE SANDERS, an independent, is Vermont's member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Sanders delivered this statement at a November hearing of the House Banking Committee on the East Asian Financial Crisis.

VANDANA SHIVA is a writer, physicist and philosopher, and director of the New Delhi-based Research Foundation for Science Technology and Natural Resource Policy.

GLENN SWITKES is a journalist and filmmaker. He is Latin America Program Director for the Berkeley-based International Rivers Network.

CARLOS SERGIO FIGUEIREDO TAUTZ is a freelance writer based in Rio de Janeiro. He writes for a range of international news media.

LEE TUCKER and ARVIND GANESAN are consultants to Human Rights Watch's Children's Rights Project. This story is based on the September, 1996 Human Rights Watch report "The Small Hands of Slavery: Bonded Child Labor in India."

JIM VALLETTE coordinates the International Trade Information Service. He is co-author, with Daphne Wysham, of the reports: "The World Bank and the G-7: Changing the Earth's Climate for Business," and "The World Bank's Juggernaut: The Coal-Fired Industrial Colonization of the Indian State of Orissa," available on-line at www.igc.org/ifps/

ERIC VERHOOGEN is a labor researcher with the New York-based National Labor Committee Education Fund in Support of Worker and Human Rights in Central America.

DAVID WELKER is director of legislation and special projects for the Food and Allied Service Trade Department at the AFL-CIO.

DAPHNE WYSHAM is a research fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. She is co-author, with Jim Vallette, of the reports: "The World Bank and the G-7: Changing the Earth's Climate for Business," and "The World Bank's Juggernaut: The Coal-Fired Industrial Colonization of the Indian State of Orissa," available on-line at www.igc.org/ifps/

JENNA E. ZIMAN is a freelance writer based in Berkeley, California.