Inscribed "To My Netroots Comrades! Keept it up! JT"

As the longtime president of the National Writers Union, Jonathan Tasini was the lead plaintiff in Tasini vs. The New York Times, the landmark electronic rights case that took on the corporate media's assault on the rights of freelance authors. He has written about labor and economics for a variety of publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal.