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Speakers & Artists
Search for Speakers, Artists, Exhibits and Films below
 | | Tom Ammiano
California State Assemblyman, Advocate for Schools, Health Care & Civil Rights
• Gays in Government and Education: From the Frontline
• The Debate Over Marijuana Reform: Decriminalization and Taxation of Marijuana
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 | | Subhankar Banerjee
Internationally Acclaimed Photographer, Writer, and Environmental Communicator
• • Leading International Voice on Climate Change and Resource Development
• Indigenous Human Rights, Land Conservation, and Sustainability
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 | | Khalil Bendib
Award-Winning Political Cartoonist
• Featured in over 1,700 newspapers across the country.
• Bringing a Muslim/Arab, progressive, non-Eurocentric perspective to the media.
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 | | Medea Benjamin
Co-Founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace
• Long-time Human Rights Activist and Author
• Founding Director of the human rights organization Global Exchange
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 | | Father Roy Bourgeois
Longtime Human Rights and Peace Activist
• Founder of the Human Rights Group SOA Watch (School of the Americas Watch)
• Recipient of Several Prominent Peace Awards
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 | | Ward Churchill
Native American Scholar, Activist & Author
• Author of over 20 books including From A Native Son, Critical Issues in Native North Americaand A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas
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 | | Kevin Danaher
Expert on the Green Economy & Globalization
- Founder & Executive Producer of the Green Festivals & Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center
- Author of Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots, among numerous other books
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 | | Angela Davis
Author, Educator and Activist
– Author of numerous books on the prison industrial complex including Abolition Democracy and Are Prisons Obsolete?
- Leader in the movement for economic, racial, and gender equality
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 | | Noura Erakat
Palestinian American Human Rights Attorney & Professor
- Co-Founder of the American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights
- Important voice for Palestinians in the United States and Middle East
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 | | Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Leading Labor, Racial Justice and International Solidarity Leader
• Co-author of Solidarity Divided, The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice
• Founder of the Center for Labor Renewal and past president of TransAfrica Forum
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 | | Lakota Harden
Acclaimed Orator, Community Organizer, Diversity Trainer
• Veteran activist in Native American communities
• Her lectures and workshops focus on unlearning racism, sexism and other social oppressions as well as "decolonization" workshops for Indigenous peoples
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 | | Ericka Huggins
Human Rights Activist, Poet and Scholar
• Former Black Panther leader and political prisoner
• Lectures focus on womens' leadership, physical and emotional well-being of women and children, youth incarceration, education, and the role of spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting change
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 | | Van Jones
Globally Recognized Pioneer in The Green Collar Economy
• Author of the bestseller The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Solve Our Two Biggest Problems
• Former Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality
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 | | Kiwi
Hip Hop Artist and Filipino Community Activist
• Formerly with the acclaimed Filipino hip hop group Native Guns, his latest CD is The Summer Exposure Mixtape
• Also facilitates Hip Hop workshops for young people
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 | | Roberto Lovato
One of the Nation’s Leading Latino Writers and Commentators
• Associate Editor with New America Media and frequent contributore to numerous magazines and websites
• Speaks and writes on growing Latino power and influence, immigration, media, politics, race and human rights
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 | | Barbara Lubin
Founder and Executive Director of the Middle East Children's Alliance
• Has led some twenty delegations of North Americans to Palestine/Israel, Iraq, and Lebanon
• An acclaimed advocate for children in the Middle East and peace with justice
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 | | Clarence Lusane
Author, Scholar and Journalist on Race, Human Rights and Electoral Politics
- Expert on comparative race relations, international human rights, social movements and electoral politics
- Author of several books, including a major work, The Black History of the White House, forthcoming this fall
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 | | Camilo Mejía
The New Face of the Anti-War Movement
• The First Iraq War Veteran to Refuse to Fight
• Author of the book Road from Ar Ramidi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejía
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 | | Barbara Ransby
Award-Winning Writer and Historian
• Author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
• Co-founder of the Black Radical Congress, African American Women in Defense of Ourselves and the Progressive Media Project
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 | | Ninotchka Rosca
Contemporary writer and Human Rights Activist
• Author of six books including State of War, Twice Blessed and The Fall of Marcos
• Founder and the first national chair of GABRIELA, the preeminent Filipina women's rights organization
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 | | Loretta J. Ross
Women's Rights & Human Rights Leader
• National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
• Co-author of Undivided Right: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
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 | | Scott Turner Schofield
Award-Winning Transgender Performer, Writer and Educator
•Stage performances include Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps and Debutante Balls
• Author of Two Truths and a Lie
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 | | Rinku Sen
Leading Figure in the Racial Justice Movement
•Executive Director of Applied Research Center and Publisher of Colorlines magazine
• Books include The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization and Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing
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 | | Cathi Tactaquin
Executive Director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- The Immigrant Rights Agenda and the Election of Barack Obama
- Immigration and Migration in the Global Era
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 | | Rev. C.T. Vivian
A Living Legend of the Civil Rights Movement
• A Baptist Minister who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for many years
• Speaks on building a Civil Rights Movement for the New Millennium
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 | | Alice Walker
The Essential Writer of Our Times
• Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple as well as numerous other novels, books of poetry, short stories and essay collections
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 | | Salud!
Sometimes help comes from unexpected places...a look at Cuba's acclaimed health care system
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