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10-31-08

Robert Parry: founder of ConsortiumNews.com.  His new book is called “Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush”.

Terry Tamminen: is the Cullman Senior Fellow for Climate Change and Director of the Climate Policy Program at the New America Foundation.  His latest book is Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Addiction to Oil, an unblinking account of the true price of petroleum and a prescription for change.

Jon Slangerup: joined ClearEdge Power as President and CEO in March 2007. For the past eight years, Mr. Slangerup has been engaged in the cleantech industry, previously serving as CEO of Solar Integrated Technologies, a public solar roofing company, and CEO of Stuart Energy Systems, a public hydrogen infrastructure company.

Bruce Fein: lawyer in the United States who specializes in constitution and international law. He is a pro-impeachment republican. His latest book is entitled Constitutional Peril.

Brad Friedman: self-described election integrity muckraking journalist jerk. You can read his blog at Bradblog.com.

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10-30-08

Mark Klein: is a former AT&T technician who leaked knowledge of his company’s cooperation with the United States National Security Agency in installing network monitoring hardware to spy on American citizens.

Caroline Fredrickson:  is the director of the Washington Legislative Office of the American Civil Liberties Union, the nation’s oldest, largest and most vital civil liberties organization.

Scott Dick: regular contributor on Military/Vets issues. Dick hosts his own radio broadcast called The Scott Dick Show.

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R J Shulman: political satirist. You can read Shulman’s blog at ptsd1.blogspot.com.               

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10-29-08

Eric Boehlert: Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America. He is the author of “Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush”.

Rev./Rep. Bob Edgar: is president and CEO of Common Cause, a nonpartisan government watchdog organization, effective May 2007.

Alex Ross: the music critic of The New Yorker. View his writings at therestisnoise.com.

Cindy Sheehan: is an American anti-war activist, whose son, Casey, was killed during his service in the Iraq War on April 4, 2004.

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George Clark: His commitment to the future of Eureka is deeply rooted in his personal history in this community. He’s running for City Council to support, affirm, and encourage fellow Eurekans and other public citizens who do so much to make Eureka a better place to live.

Zane Starkewolf: a St. Helena native and resident of Davis, is a biotech entrepreneur, hoping to develop a device that will diagnose upper respiratory ailments. He said his foray into the health care system convinced him to try to go into politics to fix the system.

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10-28-08

Chris Hedges: currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.

Dr. Les Roberts: author of 23 novels, close to a dozen short stories, eight screenplays and countless newspaper articles and reviews. check him out at lesroberts.com.

Eric Umansky: wrote Slate’s “Today’s Paper’s” feature from 2001 through 2006. He then received a Gordon Grey fellowship from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He now writes for propublica.org.

Margaret Dooley-Samulli: deputy campaign manager for the Yes on Prop 5 campaign.

Jason Leopold: investigative journalist. He writes for the online publication The Public Record.

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Melanie Sloan: serves as CREW’s Executive Director. Prior to starting CREW, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia where, from 1998-2003, she successfully tried cases before dozens of judges and juries.

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10-27-08

Matt Gray: is currently an advisor to Taxpayers for Improving Public Safety (TiPS), Victims Foundation, and The Justice & Reconciliation Project (JRP).

Ken Silverstein: is the Washington Editor for Harper’s Magazine and writes Washington Babylon for Harper’s online.

Cliff Schecter: political commentator and journalist. His blog is called The Political Carnival. His latest book is called “The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don’t Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn’t”.

Brent Constantz Ph.D.: is interested in biomineralization and the design of mineralized structures and their function.  He has invented a green cement that could not only eliminate the huge amounts of carbon dioxide released by conventional kilns, but could also bind up excess CO2 from power plants. The professor’s company, Calera Corp., has a pilot factory in Moss Landing Monterey County.

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