José Aylwin is a human rights lawyer from Chile, specialized in Indigenous peoples and citizens’ rights in Latin America. He is currently the acting Co-Director of the Observatorio Ciudadano (Citizens’ Watch), an NGO which promotes the protection of human rights in Chile (www.observatorio.cl). His research has been published by different organizations including the University of La Frontera, Chile, the United Nations (ECLAC), the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights, IWGIA (Denmark), and the University of Montana, on topics including Indigenous peoples’ land rights, ombudsmanship in Latin America, globalization and human rights in Latin America and human rights in Chile. Mr. Aylwin graduated in legal and juridical studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile in Santiago and obtained a Master in Laws degree from the School of Law at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. He also teaches Indigenous Peoples’ Rights at the School of Law at the Universidad Austral de Chile, in Valdivia, Chile.

David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City University of New York (CUNY) and author of various books, articles, and lectures. He is the author, most recently, of one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2011, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2010). Other books include A Companion to Marx’s Capital, Limits to Capital, and Social Justice and the City. Professor Harvey has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital for nearly 40 years. His lectures on Marx’s Capital Volumes I and II are available for download (free) on his website. Since 2008, he is the director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics.

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