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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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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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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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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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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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Tanya Clay House
is the Director of Public
Policy at People For the American Way. You can get more information about
your right to vote at
www.PFAW.org. |
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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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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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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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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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Jim McDonald is
the Sri Lanka country specialist for Amnesty International USA
www.aiusa.org -- Founded in 1961, Amnesty International is a Nobel
Prize winning grassroots activist organization with over one-million members
world wide. Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is the U.S. Section of this
international human rights movement. |
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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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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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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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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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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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Phil Smith
is
Communications Director of the Secure World Foundation based in Colorado.
The foundation works with partners worldwide in an effort to promote
cooperative solutions to space security problems. --
www.SecureWorldFoundation.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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Sanho Tree
is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC and
directs its Drug Policy Project. The Institute for Policy Studies 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.
www.ips-dc.org. and a senior fellow at the Institute for
International Law and Politics at Georgetown University. |
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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. |