Year: 2009

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

Chisun Lee: was counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a former Knight Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School, she served as a law clerk for a federal district judge in New York, and was formerly a staff writer for the Village Voice.

Tony Lent: Managing Director and Co-founder of US Renewables Group.

Bob Borosage: president of the Institute for America’s Future and co-director of its sister organization, the Campaign for America’s Future.

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

Steve Pizzo: is an award-winning, non-fiction author, raconteur and all around dilettante. His prior accomplishments include a New York Times best-selling book, Inside Job, exposing the seamy side of the 1980s savings and loan crisis. His blog can be viewed at NewsforReal.com.

Barry Hessenius: is a consultant and speaker for the nonprofit sector.  He is a former director of the California Arts Council (appointed by Governor Gray Davis), longtime political fundraiser, activist, and nonprofit advocate.

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

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.

Eleanor Smeal: is president of the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF). She served as president of the National Organization for Women from 1977 to 1982 and again from 1985 to 1987.

Dr. Phil Butler: Doctor Phillip Butler is a 1961 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former light-attack carrier pilot. In 1965 he was shot down over North Vietnam where he spent eight years as a prisoner of war. Check out his new video at bravenewfilms.org

David Cobb: an American activist and was the 2004 presidential candidate of the Green Party of the United States (GPUS).

Shachaf Polakow: an Israeli activist and a member of Anarchists Against The Wall.  He has worked intensively for nearly five years demonstrating and preparing for direct actions in the West Bank against the occupation, the construction of The Wall, and the Israeli “apartheid” policy.

Norman Solomon: a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. He has been writing the weekly “Media Beat” column since 1992.

Lisa Maldonado: Executive Director of the North Bay Labor Council.

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

Kathy Kelly: Executive Director of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She is a veteran peace activist and the founder of Voices in the Wilderness.

Audrey Stewart: has just returned from the Gaza strip and is a human rights worker and mother of two young sons in New Orleans.

Richard Gage: is the founding member of ae911Truth.org. He has been a practicing Architect for 20 years and has worked on most types of building construction including numerous fire-proofed steel-framed buildings.

Dylan Avery: is the writer, director, and editor of the Loose Change films.

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

Frances Fox Piven: is on the faculty of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author, most recently, of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America.

Dan Goldman: is a writer, artist and designer. His critically-acclaimed web-to-print comic SHOOTING WAR was selected as one of 2007’s best graphic novels by The Village Voice and Publisher’s Weekly.

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

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Tommy Panik: reports on the latest

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

Karl Frisch: is a columnist and Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, the nation’s preeminent progressive media watchdog.

Mike Lux: is the founder of Progressive Strategies LLC and a director of the Center for Progressive Leadership, the Proteus Fund and the Arca Foundation.

Luke Bergman: is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health and an associate research scientist at the Prevention Research Center in Berkeley.  His book is called Getting Ghost.

Lt. Gov John Garamendi: 46th Lieutenant Governor of California. He brings to the office 32 years of public service.

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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Gov. Don Siegelman: was the Governor of Alabama from 1999 to 2003. Siegelman is the only person in the history of Alabama to be elected to serve in all four of the top statewide elected offices: Secretary of State, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor and Governor.

Mike Matz: Executive Director of The Campaign for America’s Wilderness.

Wayne Besen: is an author, activist, columnist and public speaker.  Besen is a former spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay and lesbian advocacy group.

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

Nazeer Aruri: is an American professor and author of several books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jamal Dajani: is an award winning producer and Senior Director of Middle Eastern Programming at Link TV.

Dr.  Sonia Robbins, MD: is a British reconstructive and hand surgeon who regularly volunteers in Gaza, and has had patients waiting to see her for several weeks.

Tom Cackett: acting Executive Officer of California Air Resources Board.

Larry Mischel: President of the Economic Policy Institute

Dr. Jeffrey Feldman: is the editor-in-chief of the influential political blog Frameshop.

Dick Kay: For 38 years he was Chicago television’s premiere political reporter. He was the longest serving reporter in the history of NBC/WMAQ.

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

Temple Grandin Ph.D.: is inarguably the most accomplished and well-known adult with autism in the world. She has been featured on major television programs, such as “ABC’s Primetime Live”, the “Today Show”, “Larry King Live”, “48 Hours” and “20/20” and written up in national publications, such as Time magazine, People magazine, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, and New York Times.

Blythe McGarvie: has been President of Leadership for International Finance, LLC, a firm focusing on improving clients’ financial positions and providing leadership seminars for corporate and academic groups, since January 2003. Her firm specializes in providing global perspectives to U.S. and multinational companies, primarily in the consumer goods, financial services and knowledge-based industries.

Abby Adlerman: is the Area Manager for the Russell Reynolds’ San Francisco office and leads the Executive Directors, Researchers and Associates Committee. She focuses on managing CEO/board services and private equity executive searches nationally.

Cleve Jones: is a long-time gay rights activist devoted to AIDS awareness and education.

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

Faiz Shakir: Research Director at The Center for American Progress and serves as Editor-in-Chief of ThinkProgress.org.

Prof. Gar Alperovitz: Professor of Political-Economy at the University of Maryland.

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

Stephen Zunes: is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies.

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