Professor Rob Dew is a traveler, Educator, and local Los Angeles leader in the Occupy Movement. He is an active participant in the Venice neighborhood council and is most well known for teaching his course, "Mass Media and Society" at Santiago Canyon College in Orange County, CA. He is critical of the Republican party and describes American society as being in a form of "late stage capitalism." That is a hyper commodified economy which will not prioritize solving problems such as global warming, but mostly focuses on profit driven business.