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February 14, 1999

Jane Hirschfield author of numerous books of poetry, professor at MFA program at Bennington College.
Robert Bly, editor, author, translator of numerous works, including most recently The Soul is Here for its Own Joy (Ecco Press, 1995).
Mike Gray, author of Drug Crazy, China Syndrome and director of the documentary Murder Of Fred Hampton
Dorsey Nunn, Director Of Legal Services for Prisons With Children, Criminal Justice Consortium, formerly directed a halfway house for drug and alcohol counseling. Call (415) 255-7036 x312
Joanne Kawell, South America correspondent for NPR, reporting from Peru, Bolivia; former Bureau Chief at Pacifica; author of Going to the Source, pending publication.

Matthew Lasar, author, Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network
Danny Schecter, author of The More You Watch the Less You Know, and executive director of Globalvision, an independent TV service in New York which produces "Rights and Wrongs: Human Rights Television" and "South Africa Now."

Father Roy Bourgeois, former Naval officer in the Vietnam War, Mary Knoll priest, founder of School of the America's Watch

Noam Chomsky, linguist at MIT, author of 36 books, most recently Profit over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order (Seven Stories Press, 1998).

Mark Hertsgaard, author of Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future (Broadway Books, 1998). He spent six years travelling around the globe to assess the state of our environment.

Sam Smith editor of the Progressive Review and author of Sam Smith's Great American Political Repair Mannual : How to Rebuild Our Country So the Politics Aren't Broken and Politicians Aren't Fixed

Howard Zinn, author of numerous books including, A People's History: 1492 - Present, and The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy (Seven Stories Press, 1997)

Dr. Kilolo Kijakazi of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and author of the recent study, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Social Security: the Shortcomings of the Heritage Foundation Reports (202)408-1080

Dean Baker of the Preamble Center, the Century Foundation in New York, and author of An Evaluation of Private Alternatives to Social Security (Twentieth Century Fund, 1997) and the new online column Economic Reporting Review

Roger Hickey, coufounder of the Economic Policy Institute, currently with the Institute for America's Future. (202)955-5665

Clayborn Carson, Professor at Stanford University, editor of the Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project

Eva Jefferson Patterson Executive Director of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco (415)951-4844 or (415)543-9444

Jamin Raskin, professor of constitional and criminal law at American University and former member of President Clinton's Justice Department Transition Team for the Civil Rights Division

Stephan Endicott and Edward Hagerman, professors at York Univeristy in Toronto, co-authors of The United States and Biological Warfare

Jeffrey Klein, freelance journalist, founder and former editor of Mother Jones, author of The Black Hole Affair

Mirium Pemberton from the Institute for Policy Studies, expert on the military budget

Jamin Raskin, professor of constitional and criminal law at American University and former member of President Clinton's Justice Department Transition Team for the Civil Rights Division

Jill Nelson, journalist with MSNBC, author of Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman and Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience

Clarence Lusane, editor of Black Political Report, professor at American University, author of Race in the Global Era: African Americans at the Millennium (South End Press, 1997)

Sam Smith, editor of the Progressive Review, author of Sam Smith's Great American Political Repair Mannual : How to Rebuild Our Country So the Politics Aren't Broken and Politicians Aren't Fixed

Norman Solomon, independent media critic, author of the on-line column Media Beat and Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News (Common Courage Press, 1997) and The Trouble With Dilbert: How Corporate Culture Gets the Last Laugh (Common Courage Press, 1997)