Dr. Paul Larudee: co-founder of FreeGaza.org.

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

Joe Cirincione: President of the Ploughshares Fund for Peace, a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear weapons policy and conflict resolution.

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

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”.

Prof. Jonathan Zimmerman: Professor of Education and History and Director of the History of Education Program, Steinhardt School of Education. He also holds an appointment in the Department of History of NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Jonathan Hafetz: litigation expert for the Liberty and National Security Project of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School. Mr. Hafetz works on post-September 11 detention issues, government secrecy, and immigrants’ rights.

Rep. Barbara Lee: member of the United States House of Representatives for California’s 9th congressional district. She is a superdelegate pledged to Barack Obama.

Mel Goodman: senior fellow and director of the national security program at the Center for International Policy. He is also a professor of international security studies and chairman of the international relations department at the National War College.

Scott Ritter: Chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. Prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Ritter publicly argued that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destruction.

Dr. Meryl Nass: bio-terrorist expert. Read her blog at anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com.

John Laird: Assemblymember for the 27th Assembly District, which includes portions of Santa Cruz, Monterey and Santa Clara Counties. In 2004, Mr. Laird was named by Assembly Speaker Núñez to join the Assembly leadership team as chair of the Budget Committee.

Melanie Sloan: Executive Director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CREW. Prior to starting CREW, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia.

Gary Chew: regular contributor on film and entertainment issues.

John Chiang: California State Controller.

Winslow T. Wheeler: Director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information. He spent 31 years working for US Senators from both parties and the Government Accountability Office.

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”.

Craig Aaron: Communications Director for the Free Press.

Col. Ann Wright: retired United States Army colonel and retired official of the U.S. State Department, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She is most noted for having been one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Thom Hartmann: American radio host, author, and liberal political commentator. His nationally-syndicated radio show, The Thom Hartmann Program, airs throughout the United States on Air America Radio.

John Nichols: political writer for The Nation magazine as its Washington correspondent. He is a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor of the Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin. His articles have appeared many newspapers including the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.

Matt Rothschild: editor of The Progressive magazine and the author of “You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression.” This article, “The FBI Deputizes Business,” is the cover story of the March issue of The Progressive.

Aldous Tyler: founder of nonstopradio.com.

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

John Stauber: founder of the non-profit, non-partisan Center for Media & Democracy and its newsmagazine PR Watch.

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

Mike Lux: co-founder and CEO of Progressive Strategies, L.L.C., a political consulting firm. Read his blog huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux.

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

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

Paul Waldman: author of four books on media and politics. His latest is called “Free Ride: John McCain and the Media”. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Senior Fellow and Director of Special Projects at Media Matters for America. He is also a columnist for The American Prospect. You can read his blog at paulwaldman.blogspot.com.

Randy Hayes: founder of Rainforest Action Network.

Lou Dematteis: San Francisco Bay Area photojournalist and documentary photographer Lou Dematteis has covered issues of social, political, economic and environmental importance for the past 30 years. A former staff photographer for Reuters News Pictures. His new book is called “Crude Reflections/Cruda Realidad Oil, Ruin and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest”.

Saul Kaye: singer-songwriter. His band is called The Saul Kaye Band.

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

Steve Poizner: California’s Insurance Commissioner. Contact the Commissioner and find out more about your rights at insurance.ca.gov.

Rory O’Connor: veteran media critic. O’Connor’s new book is called “Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio: America’s Ten Worst Hate Talkers and the Progressive Alternatives”. Read his blog at roryoconnor.org/blog

Ken Silverstein: Washington, DC Editor for Harper’s Magazine and writes Washington Babylon for Harpers.org.

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

Melanie Sloan: Executive Director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CREW. Prior to starting CREW, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia.

Anima LaVoy: co-founder of Swing Semester. Originally from Washington, DC, Anima Sarah La Voy earned her degree in psychology from Earlham College, a Quaker liberal arts school in Richmond, Indiana. While living in the Midwest, she learned about small town economies, country music, and people who didn’t think like her.