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Andy Shallal - Advisor

- NY - Anas “Andy” Shallal is an Iraqi American activist, artist and social entrepreneur. He is the founder and proprietor of Busboys and Poets, an activism center and café in Washington DC, which features prominent speakers and authors and provides a venue for social and political activism. Since its inception, Busboys and Poets has become the most blogged about restaurant and gathering place in Washington DC and has become an incubator for activism and social change. Andy Shallal is a member of the board of trustees for The Institute for Policy...
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Col. Ann Wright - Advisor

- NY - Ann Wright grew up in Bentonville, Arkansas, and attended the University of Arkansas, where she received a master’s and a law degree. She also has a master’s degree in national security affairs from the U.S. Naval War College. After college, she spent thirteen years in the U.S. Army and sixteen additional years in the Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel. She is airborne-qualified. In 1987, Col.Wright joined the Foreign Service and served as U.S. Deputy Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. She received the State...
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Anthony Arnov - Advisor

- NY - Anthony Arnove is the editor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People’s History of the United States, a critically acclaimed primary-source companion to Zinn’s best selling A People’s History of the United States that features the words of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past — and present. Rethinking Schools describes the book a “stunning new volume.” Jon Stewart of The Daily Show calls it “Gut-wrenching.” And Salon.com considers it “Compelling and indispensable.” The book, published by Seven Stories Press, also has a companion...
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Antonia Juhasz - Advisor

- NY - Antonia Juhasz is a leading oil industry expert. She is a policy-analyst, author and activist. Juhasz is the author of three books: Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill (Wiley 2011), The Tyranny of Oil: the World's Most Powerful Industry--And What We Must Do To Stop It (HarperCollins 2008), for which she received the 2009 San Francisco Library Laureate Award, and The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time (HarperCollins 2006). Juhasz founded the Energy Program at Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human...
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Celia Alario

- NY - Celia Alario is a public relations and media strategist, grassroots communications consultant, media skills trainer and facilitator.  She works at the intersection of campaigning, grassroots organizing and marketing to support organizations, film makers, artists and authors in engaging key audiences for their stories, tapping both traditional media/marketing and new media/web 2.0 tools to create meaningful opportunities for engagement.  As founder of ‘PR for People and the Planet’ she’s helped spin groundbreaking social action campaigns,...
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Daniel Ellsberg - Advisor

- NY - Daniel Ellsberg was born in Chicago in 1931. After graduating from Harvard in 1952 with a B.A. summa cum laude in Economics, he studied for a year at King’s College, Cambridge University, on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. Between 1954 and 1957, Ellsberg spent three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, serving as rifle platoon leader, operations officer, and rifle company commander. From 1957-59 he was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Harvard University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard in 1962 with his thesis, Risk, Ambiguity and...
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Marty Webster - Advisor

- NY - Marty Webster is currently National Coordinator for Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). He served he served during Vietnam as a Navy corpsman. He joined VVAW in 1969 and he participated in the many anti-war and VVAW activities in the late 60s and 70s. Currently a national coordinator for VVAW, he has also served as local and regional contacts. Marty has also served as VVAW's national organizing secretary and national membership chairman. Heavily active in the anti war movement in the Midwest, Webster has been Ohio Valley regional...
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Phyllis Bennis - Advisor

- NY - Fellow Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at IPS. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She has been a writer, analyst, and activist on Middle East and UN issues for many years. In 2001 she helped found and remains on the steering committee of the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation. She works closely with the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition, co-chairs the UN-based International Coordinating Network on Palestine, and since 2002 has played an active role in the growing global...
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Tod Ensign - Advisor

- NY - Tod Ensign is a lawyer,  is Director of Citizen Soldier, a non profit GI and veterans rights advocacy organization based in New York City.  Tod began his career as a full time organizer and advocate when he helped to mount the first Winter Soldier investigation in late 1969, just after news of the My Lai massacre was publicly disclosed. Since then, he and his organization have worked on a wide range of issues and cases, including being the first public advocate for military veterans who were exposed to toxic levels of TCDD dioxin contained in...
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Ward Reilly - Advisor

- NY - I was a member of the active-duty GI Resistance to the Viet Nam War, 1971-1974, in the First Infantry Division and in the Weapons Platoon of "C-1/16", stationed at Panzer Kaserne, Stuttgart, Germany for 30 months...I received 2 Special Courts Martial, in 1972, for desertion with 3 others in my platoon, (sentenced to Hard Labor), and was found not guilty of all charges in the second SCM in 1973)...I was Honorably Discharged in 1974. I joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War as an active duty Infantryman in 1972(still an active member), and...

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