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	Christine Ahn is a policy analyst with the Korea Policy Institute -- www.kpolicy.org -- and a contributor to “Foreign Policy In Focus” (www.fpif.org) .
	David Anderson is a former public radio news producer and reporter in Columbus, Ohio.
	Sarah Anderson is a Fellow of IPS and a co-author of the report Executive Excess 2005. The Institute for Policy Studies is the only multi-issue progressive think tank in Washington, D.C. www.ips-dc.org
	Dean Baker is an economist and co-director at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, D.C. – www.cepr.org
	Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. Her latest book is “Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the U.N. Defy U.S. Power” (Interlink, 2005). The Institute for Policy Studies is a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C. www.ips-dc.org
	Judith A. Browne is senior attorney with the Advancement Project. The Advancement Project is a policy and legal action organization that creates strategies for achieving universal opportunity and a racially just democracy. With offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, Calif., the project can be reached at: www.advancementproject.org.
	Martha Burk is a political psychologist who heads the Council of Women's Organizations in Washington, DC, a think tank focussing on the wisdom of providing for more equal treatment of women in society.
	Tom Carpenter is the nuclear oversight director for the Government Accountability Project -- www.whistleblower.org.
	Louis Clark is president of the Government Accountability Project in Washington, D.C. GAP is a nonprofit law firm and activist organization specializing in whistleblower protection.
	Cynthia Hall Clements has worked for the legislatures of both Tennessee and Louisiana and was most recently a columnist for the Lufkin Daily News in Texas. She is presently attending law school. info@minutemanmedia.org
	Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. He and his family have spent the last year living in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he observed the Mexican election. The Institute for Policy Studies is a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C. that for more than four decades has transformed ideas into action for peace, justice, and the environment. www.ips-dc.org
	Columnist William A. Collins is a former state representative and a former mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut.
	Anita Dancs is research director for the National Priorities Project (www.nationalpriorities.org) a member of the Security Policy Working Group, the Task Force for a Unified Security Budget, and a Foreign Policy In Focus analyst (www.fpif.org)
	Tom Devine is Legal Director for the Government Accountability Project, the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization, www.whistleblower.org
	Karen Dolan is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and Director of Cities for Peace. The Institute for Policy Studies celebrates is the only multi-issue progressive think tank in Washington, D.C. Through books, articles, films, conferences, and activist education IPS offers resources for progressive social change locally, nationally, and globally. http://www.ips-dc.org.
	Tristan Dreisbach is a research assistant at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, D.C. www.armscontrolcenter.org.
	Marian Wright Edelman Marian Wright Edelman is CEO and Founder of the Children's Defense Fund and its Action Council, whose Leave No Child Behind^® missions are to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities
	Bryan Farrell is a freelance journalist and researcher for “Rolling Stone.” Bryan.farrell@rollingstone.com
	John Feffer is the co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus (www.fpif.org) at the International Relations Center. FPIF, established in 1996, seeks to make the United States a more responsible global leader and global partner. It is a "think tank without walls" that functions as an international network of more than 650 policy analysts and advocates.
	Gene C. Gerard is a professor of American history at Tarrant County College in Arlington, Texas, and a contributing author to the forthcoming book "Americans at War," to be published by Greenwood Press.
	Greg Grandin is Professor of History at New York University and served on the United Nations Truth Commission for Guatemala.
	Jonathan Granoff, president of the Global Security Institute, is also senior advisor of the American Bar Association's Committee on Arms Control and National Security. He is vice president of the NGO Committee on Disarmament at the United Nations, and serves on numerous governing and advisory boards, including the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, the Lawyers Alliance for World Security, the Jane Goodall Institute, the Bipartisan Security Group, and the Middle Powers Initiative
	Alisa Gravitz is the executive director of Co-op America, a nonprofit consumer organization advocating socially and environmentally responsible purchasing -- www.coopamerica.org.
	Conn Hallinan is a Foreign Policy In Focus (www.fpif.org) columnist. Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), established in 1996, seeks to make the United States a more responsible global leader and global partner. It is a "think tank without walls" that functions as an international network of more than 650 policy analysts and advocates. .
	Michael Hansen, PhD, is a senior scientist, Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports) -- hansmi@consumer.org.
	Jim Harkness is the president of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, headquartered in Minneapolis, is a policy research center committed to creating environmentally and economically sustainable rural communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy. www.iaatp.org
	William D. Hartung is a senior research fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School in New York City. hartung@newschool.edu
	Christopher Hellman is military policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation in Washington, D.C. Formed in 1980, the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation has been a leader in all the key arms control struggles of the late 20th century. The center serves as the nation's chief watchdog of the U.S. Congress and Executive Branch on a range of arms control issues. www.armscontrolcenter.org
	Jim Hightower is the best-selling author of "Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time To Take It Back," on sale now from Viking Press. www.jimhightower.com.
	Rick Hind is the legislative director for Greenpeace USA’s Toxics campaign. Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organization that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. 1-800-326-0959.
	Antonia Juhasz is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and on the Board of Oil Change International. She is author of “The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time,” Regan Books, to be published in April 2006 -- www.ips-dc.org
	Debayani Kar is communications and advocacy coordinator of Jubilee USA Network. www.jubileeusa.org
	Donald Kaul, recently retired as Washington columnist for the Des Moines Register. He has covered the foolishness in our Nation’s capital for 29 years, winning a number of modestly coveted awards along the way. Email: donald.kaul2@verizon.net
	Dr. Dennis Keeney is a senior fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and former director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
	John Kinsman, Wisconsin organic dairy farmer, is the secretary of the National Family Farm Coalition and the president of Family Farm Defenders. The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) was founded in 1986 to serve as a national link for grassroots organizations working on family farm issues. www.nffc.net
	Erik Leaver is the Carol and Ed Newman Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and the policy outreach director for the Foreign Policy In Focus project -- www.fpif.org
	Betsy Leondar-Wright is the Communications Director of United for a Fair Economy, a Boston-based national, independent, nonpartisan organization that puts a spotlight on the dangers of growing income, wage and wealth inequality in the United States and coordinates action to reduce the gap. United for a Fair Economy, e-mail: stw@stw.org
	Richard A. Levins is a senior fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy – www.iatp.org. He is a professor emeritus of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. His most recent book, “Middle Class * Union Made” is available from Itasca Books at www.itascabooks.com.
	Eli Lewine is a researcher at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, D.C. The center is dedicated to enhancing international peace and security and protecting the American people from the threat of weapons of mass destruction. www.armscontrolcenter.org.
	David Lochbaum is the director of the nuclear safety project in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He holds a degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee and worked for nearly 20 years in the U.S. commercial nuclear power industry prior to joining UCS. For more than 25 years, the Union of Concerned Scientists has monitored nuclear plant performance and taken action whenever safety margins were compromised. www.ucs.org
	Meizhu Lui is executive director of United for a Fair Economy and co-author of the recently published book, “The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide.” www.faireconomy.org
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	Ben Manski is a Wisconsin attorney and the executive director of the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution.
	Adam Miles is Legislative Representative for the Government Accountability Project, the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization, www.whistleblower.org
	Melissa Epstein Mills, a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project, served in the United States Marine Corps from 2002 to 2006.
	Marc H. Morial is president and CEO of The National Urban League. Mr. Morial succeeds Hugh B. Price as the League’s eighth Chief Executive. Mr. Morial served two distinguished four-year terms as Mayor of New Orleans from 1994-2002. During that time, he also served as President of the United States Conference of Mayors in 2001 and 2002.
	Mark Muller is the director of the Environment and Agriculture program at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. He is the co-author of the report: “Food Without Thought: How U.S. Farm Policy Contributes to Obesity,” available at: www.iatp.org.
	Sophia Murphy is a senior trade advisor at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. She is the co-author of the report, “U.S. Food Aid: Time to Get it Right.” The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, headquartered in Minneapolis, is a policy research center committed to creating environmentally and economically sustainable rural communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy.
	George Naylor is president of the National Family Farm Coalition, farms near Churdan, Iowa, and is a member of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. -- moonbean@wccta.net
	Thoraya Ahmed Obaid is the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, the world’s largest multilateral source of population assistance. Ms. Obaid was appointed head of UNFPA, effective 1 January 2001, with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. She is the first Saudi Arabian to head a United Nations agency.
	Peter Phillips is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Somona State University and Director of Project Censored a media research group which documents the penchant for mainstream media to ignore many policy issues which are important to the American public.
	Marcus Raskin is co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. and the co-author of "In Democracy's Shadow: The Secret World of National Security" (Nation Books, 2005). www.ips-dc.org
	Dr. Thomas Palley is an economist living in Washington DC. He has published in numerous academic journals, and written for The Atlantic Monthly, American Prospect and Nation magazines. Dr . Palley has recently started a project, Economics for Democratic & Open Societies. www.thomaspalley.com
	Jim Riccio is a nuclear policy analyst for Greenpeace. Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organization that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. 1-800-326-0959.
	Thomas D. Rowley is a Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI)Fellow The Rural Policy Research Institute provides objective analysis and facilitates public dialogue concerning the impacts of public policy on rural people and places. www.rupri.org.
	Jason Salzman is the author of Making the News: A Guide for Nonprofits and Activists, and board chair of Rocky Mountain Media Watch, a Denver-based media watchdog organization.
	Victoria Samson is a research associate at the Center for Defense Information, a non-partisan think-tank in Washington, D.C. that focuses on defense and security issues. For more information, go to www.cdi.org.
	Judith E. Schaeffer is legal director of People for the American Way People For the American Way which was established to meet the challenges of discord and fragmentation with an affirmation of "the American Way." By this, we mean pluralism, individuality, freedom of thought, expression and religion, a sense of community, and tolerance and compassion for others. www.pfaw.org
	Vice Admiral John J. Shanahan, USN Ret., is a member of the board of Senior Military Advisors of the Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities. Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities is working to increase funding for needed domestic programs by cutting wasteful spending at the Pentagon.
	Holly Sklar, coauthor of "Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work for All Of Us" (www.raisethefloor.org). hsklar@aol.com.
	Alice Slater is a founder of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons and is the Co-Convenor of the Abolition 2000 Working Group for Sustainable Energy. She also serves as President of the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE), a nonprofit organization working to form links between research, policy, and grassroots communities
	Colonel Daniel M. Smith (Ret.), a West Point graduate and Vietnam veteran is the Senior Fellow for Military Affairs at the Washington, DC-based Friends Committee on National Legislation, a nonprofit research organization dealing with military affairs. www.fcnl.org
	Eric Stoner has written on peace and international affairs for numerous publications, including “The Nation” and the “Peoria Journal Star.” ericstoner1@gmail.com
	Leonor Tomero is the non-proliferation policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, in Washington, D.C. – www.armscontrolcenter.org -- and a senior fellow at the Institute for International Law and Politics at Georgetown University.
	David Wallinga, MD, is food and health director, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and Health Care Without Harm – dwallinga@iatp.org
	Mark Weisbrot, PhD. Is an economist and Co-director of the Center for Economic & Policy Reasearch in Washington, DC. His latest book is "Social Security: The Phony Crisis" (with Dean Baker), 1999 University of Chicago Press.