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.

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

Robert Reed: a spokesman for Norcal Waste Systems Inc.

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”.

Jamie Galbraith: is an American economist who writes frequently for mainstream and liberal publications on economic topics.

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Peter B Collin’s Show covers Inauguration Day!

Bob Creamer: has been a political organizer and strategist for almost four decades. He and his firm, the Strategic Consulting Group, work with many of the country’s most significant issue campaigns.

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

Rep. Bill Pascrell: was first sworn in to the United States House of Representatives, representing the Eighth Congressional District of New Jersey, in November of 1996 and was sworn into his sixth term in January of 2007. 

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

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

Mark Brzezinski: is an American lawyer and foreign policy expert. He is the son of Polish-born former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and the grandson of Polish diplomat Tadeusz Brzeziński. He is co-host of the morning talk show Morning Joe.

Dwayne Hunn: Executive Director of People’s Lobby and sponsor of the non-partisan American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals.

Earl Bender: has been involved in strategic planning, campaign management and public policy for the past 20 years. Bender is widely acknowledged to be one of the nation’s leading strategists on initiatives and referendums. He is a Founder and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center in Washington, DC and is a contributor to the Initiative and Referendum Almanac.