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May 22-25, 2008 Radford University, Radford, Virginia
Speakers include:
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 (of Voices in the Wilderness & Voices for Creative Non-Violence)
Michael Parenti (educator; lecturer; author of 20 books; board of judges for Project Censored; Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, D.C.)
Medea Benjamin (Green candidate for California’s U.S. Senate seat, 2000; co-founder, Code Pink and NGO Global Exchange)
Daniel Sunjata (Tony Award Nominated Actor, who stars as the Firefighter, Franco Rivera, on FOX’s hit TV show “Rescue Me,” and outspoken advocate of a new 9/11 investigation)
Gareth Porter (journalist for I.P.S.; Huffington Post blogger; author, “Perils of Dominance”)
Alice Lovelace (poet; and organizer of the U.S. Social Forum, Atlanta, Georgia)
Mike Whitney (progressive economics web journalist)
Antonia Juhasz (author of “The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time”)
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, “Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim our Humanity”)
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 (Washington Director of Democrats.com and ImpeachPAC.org; co-founder, AfterDowningStreet.org).
Dahlia Wasfi (Iraqi American M.D. and anti-war activist)
Gary Corseri (poet, teacher, dramatist, novelist, editor, journalist, activist)
William E. Douglas (Founder of the National 911Visibility Project, past National Outreach Director of 911Truth.org, 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)
Rev. Lennox Yearwood (minister; activist; CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus; former White House intern)
Cathy Garger (freelance writer, anti-war activist, and anti-Depleted Uranium activist)
Adam Kokesh (leader of Iraq Veterans Against War and co-organizer, Winter Soldier)
Ravi Batra (author of more than 20 books, including “The Crash of the Millennium: Surviving the Coming Inflationary Depression” and “Greenspan’s Fraud.” Professor of Economics, Southern Methodist University)
Farid Bitar (poet; musician; composer of “Fatoosh” CD.)
J.W. Smith (author of “Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the Twenty-first Century” and Director, Institute for Economic Democracy)
Father Roy Bourgeois (Founder / Director, SOA Watch)
George Wallace (poet; editor, poetrybay.com; essayist, “John Reed and the Poetry of Protest and Praise”; activist)
Freeman Wicklund (founder, Mercy for Animals)
Ramzy Baroud (author, “The Second Palestinian Intifada” and Editor, Palestine Chronicle.
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)
David Ray Griffin (Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology; Religion and Scientific Naturalism; Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action; 9/11 Contradictions)
Joel Hirschhorn (author of “Delusional Democracy”)
William Woodward (professor of psychology; 9/11 truth investigator; Quaker peace activist)
Susan Thomas (Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies, Hollins University; animal rights activist.
Mike Curtis (long-time teacher: Henry George theory; Trustee: Single Tax Village of Arden)
Glen Martin (professor, Radford University; Secretary-General of World Constitution and Parliament Association)
Garda Ghista (freelance journalist, author of “The Gujarat Genocide,” and Founding President, World Prout Assembly)
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