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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)
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David Anderson
is a former public radio news producer and reporter in Columbus, Ohio.
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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 |
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Dean Baker
is an
economist and co-director
at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, D.C. –
www.cepr.org |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Tom
Carpenter
is the nuclear oversight director for the Government Accountability Project
--
www.whistleblower.org. |
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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.
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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 |
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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
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Columnist William A. Collins
is a former state representative and a former mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut.
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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) |
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Tom Devine
is Legal Director for the Government Accountability Project, the nation’s
leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization,
www.whistleblower.org |
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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. |
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Tristan
Dreisbach
is a research assistant at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
in Washington, D.C.
www.armscontrolcenter.org. |
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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 |
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Bryan Farrell
is a freelance journalist and researcher for “Rolling Stone.”
Bryan.farrell@rollingstone.com
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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. |
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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. |
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Greg Grandin
is Professor of History at New York University and served on the United
Nations Truth Commission for Guatemala. |
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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 |
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Alisa
Gravitz
is the
executive director of Co-op America, a nonprofit consumer organization
advocating socially and environmentally responsible purchasing --
www.coopamerica.org. |
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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. . |
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Michael Hansen,
PhD, is a senior scientist, Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports)
--
hansmi@consumer.org. |
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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 |
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William D. Hartung
is a senior research fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School
in New York City.
hartung@newschool.edu |
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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
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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.
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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. |
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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 |
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Debayani
Kar is
communications and advocacy coordinator of Jubilee USA Network.
www.jubileeusa.org |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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.
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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 |
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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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Patricia Lynn |
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Ben Manski
is a Wisconsin attorney and the executive director of the Liberty Tree
Foundation for the Democratic Revolution. |
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Adam Miles
is Legislative Representative for the Government Accountability Project, the
nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization,
www.whistleblower.org |
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Melissa Epstein Mills,
a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project, served in the
United States Marine Corps from 2002 to 2006.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Holly Sklar,
coauthor of "Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work for All Of Us" (www.raisethefloor.org).
hsklar@aol.com. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Eric
Stoner has written on peace and international affairs for numerous
publications, including “The Nation” and the “Peoria Journal Star.”
ericstoner1@gmail.com |
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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. |
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David Wallinga, MD,
is food and health director, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and
Health Care Without Harm –
dwallinga@iatp.org |
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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. |
