Speakers

Cindy Sheehan (Writer and activist; anti-war leader known as the "Peace Mom")

William Blum (Blogger of "The Anti-Empire Report; author of "Rogue State" and "Killing Hope")

Kathy Kelly (Co-ordinator of Voices in the Wilderness & Voices for Creative Non-Violence; author of "Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison")

 

Richard Cook (former federal government analyst, whistleblower, leading scholar of monetary theory and economic reform, and author of "Challenger Revealed: An Insider's Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age")

 

Daniel Sunjata (Tony Award Nominated Actor, who stars as the Firefighter, Franco Rivera, on FOX's hit TV show "Rescue Me," and outspoken activist and public advocate) 

 

Lynne Stewart (30-year veteran civil rights and criminal defense lawyer. Now fighting US government false conviction for work done on behalf of Islamist client.)

 

Ralph Poynter (Community activist, Harlem and Brooklyn, NY. Forty-year advocate for community control of schools and other African-American causes) 

Gareth Porter (Journalist for I.P.S.; Huffington Post blogger; author, "Perils of Dominance")

Alice Lovelace (Poet, playwright, essayist, Author of "Remembering my Birth; This is for Family; The Kitchen Survival Almanac"; Editor of CRUS: a conversation in words and images South Africa to South USA; Co-editor at In Motion Magazine)

Mike Whitney (Progressive economics web journalist)

 

David Schweickart (Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University' author of "After Capitalism" and "Against Capitalism")

 

Kevin Zeese (Green candidate for Maryland's U.S. Senate seat, 2006)

Reggie Cervantes (WTC Survivor Rescue Worker; nurse in Michael Moore's "Sicko") 

 

David Rubinson (Political activist and co-founder, Stop-LossCongress.org, Music and film producer: Produced music for "Apocalypse Now," produced the film "Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness")   

Robert Jensen (professor; University of Texas at Austin; author of "Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim our Humanity" and "The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege")

 

Steve Alten (New York Times best-selling American novelist and author of "The Shell Game")

 

Guy Prouty  (professor of anthropology, Oregon State University; Associate Director, Prout Institute)

Meria Heller (Producer/Host of the Meria Show, Entering its 9th Year on the Net)    

Michael Richards (founder of Sustainable Ecological Economic Development (S.E.E.D.) author of "Sustainable Operating Systems/The Post Petrol Paradigm")     

Olivia Burlingame Goumbri (of the Venezuela Information Office, Washington, D.C.)

David Swanson (Creator of ImpeachCheney.org, Washington Director of Democrats.com, Co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition, Board member of Progressive Democrats of America, the Backbone Campaign, and Voters for Peace. Former Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign. Website is www.davidswanson.org.

 

Dahlia Wasfi (Iraqi American M.D. and anti-war activist)

Jim Fetzer (Radio Co-host, American philosopher and Distinguished McKnight University Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, author of numerous books including "American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone" and "Render Unto Darwin: Philosophical Aspects of the Christian Right's Crusade Against Science")

Gary Corseri (poet, teacher, dramatist, novelist, editor, journalist, activist)

Ian MacPherson (Director, British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies, University of Victoria, BC)

 

Ellen Brown (attorney and author of eleven books, including "Web of Debt")

 

Jason Schreiner  (professor of philosophy, Oregon State University; Associate Director, Prout Institute)

William E. Douglas (Columnist & Author of "The Amateur Parent–A Book on Life, Death, War & Peace")

Gordon Soderberg (founding member of New Orleans Voices for Peace)

 

Sunsara Taylor (Writer, Revolution Newspaper; Advisory Board, The World Can't Wait -- Drive Out the Bush Regime!)

Bruce Gagnon (Co-founder and Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space)

 

Charles Sullivan (nature photographer, freelance writer, naturalist and environmental educator; warrior for social justice)

 

Timothy V. Gatto (Former Chairman Liberal Party of America, Progressive writer, Activist, US Army (Ret.)

 

Cathy Garger (Freelance writer, anti-war activist, and anti-Depleted Uranium activist) 

 

Keith McHenry (Co-founder of the global movement Food Not Bombs and a coordinator of the national food relief effort for the survivors of Katrina)

 

Ronald Logan  (author of 'PROUT: A New Paradigm of Development; Associate Director, Prout Institute)

 

Adam Kokesh (IVAW Board Member and co-organizer of Winter Soldier)

 

Karen Davis (Ph.D., President, United Poultry Concerns, www.upc-online.org)

 

Ravi Batra (Professor of Economics, Southern Methodist University; author of more than 20 books, including "The Crash of the Millennium: Surviving the Coming Inflationary Depression," "The Myth of Free Trade" and "Greenspan's Fraud." 

Fareed Bitar  ("THE FATOOSH" Ensemble of Eclectic, Activist & Spiritual Music, with Fareed Bitar (Palestinian-American), Miriam Stanley (Jewish-American), Diana Gitesha Hernandez (Puerto Rican Jazz-Spiritualist) and Brant Lyon (Anglo-American Protestant).

 

Bob Fitrakis (Editor of Columbus FreePress.org, election fraud attorney, professor, speaker)

 

Richard Hayes Phillips (author of Witness to a Crime" - proof of the stolen '04 election in Ohio)

Victoria Parks (singer / songwriter (W. Begins with Duh), researher, patriot connecting election fraud witih other fascist signs)

 

Carl Gunther (Writer promoting integrity vs. top-down control)

Jeannie Dean (Election investigation videographer in Sarasota in 06 and at the Illegal NH Recount of 08)

Marj Creech (ElectionDefenseAlliance.org Coordinator, organizer of citizen exit polls)

 

Mike Rivage-Seul (Professor and Director of the Peace and Social Justice Studies program at Berea College, Kentucky)

 

J.W. Smith (Director, Institute for Economic Democracy; author of "Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the Twenty-first Century" and "Money: A Mirror Image of the Economy") 

Father Roy Bourgeois (Founder / Director, SOA Watch)

George Wallace (Poet; editor, poetrybay.com; essayist, "John Reed and the Poetry of Protest and Praise"; activist)

 

Susan Thomas  (Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, Hollins University; animal rights activist. 

Freeman Wicklund (Founder, Mercy for Animals)

 

Ramzy Baroud (Author of "The Second Palestinian Intifada" and Editor, Palestine Chronicle.

 

Art Costa (Activist/community organizer, urban economist, teacher, social thinker and writer)

Gideon Levy (Israeli journalist for "Ha'aretz" and other publications)

 

Max Kantar (Freelance writer and public advocate)

Erin Williams (U.S. Humane Society and author)

 

Sara Thomsen (Singer-songwriter, activist, community song rouser, composer of "Is It For Freedom")

Adam Engel (Poet and web author) 

 

Wyn Achenbaum (Tax Reform activist; webster for wealthandwant.com)

William Woodward (Professor of psychology; Co-editor of "B. F. Skinner and behaviorism in American culture," Quaker peace activist)

 

Geraldine Perry (Librarian/researcher turned natural health and small farm advocate, author of The Two Faces of Money)

 

Lindy Davies (Writer, educator, Program Director, Henry George Institute)

Mike Curtis (long-time teacher: Henry George theory; Trustee: Single Tax Village of Arden)

 

Bob Griss (Executive Director of the Institute of Social Medicine and Community Health, health care policy researcher and advocate at the state and federal levels)

Glen Martin (Professor of Philosophy, Radford University; Secretary-General of World Constitution and Parliament Association; author of "World Revolution Through World Law")

Garda Ghista (freelance journalist, author of "The Gujarat Genocide: A Case Study in Fundamentalist Cleansing" and Founding President, World Prout Assembly)