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Speakers & Artists
Search for Speakers, Artists, Exhibits and Films below
 | | 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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 | | 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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 | | David Hilliard
Former Black Panther Party Chief of Staff
• Author of This Side of Glory, a compelling eyewitness account of the Black Panthers and the biography Huey, Spirit of the Panther
• A vibrant voice on civil rights history who speaks eloquently to racial divisions today
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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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 | | James W. Loewen
Award-Winning Sociologist, Historian, and Best-Selling Author
• Author of numerous books including Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America and Sundown Towns and his latest, Teaching What Really Happened
• Topics cover U.S. history, multicultural education, civil rights, race relations, voting rights, law and social science
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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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 | | Ben Manski
Executive Director of the Liberty Tree Foundation
• Former co-chair of the Green Party and past National Director of Campus Greens USA
• Efforts focus on building a new democracy movement in the U.S. and democratizing education
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 | | Renee Saucedo
Prominent Immigrant Rights Attorney & Human Rights Activist
• Founder of the grassroots organization, INS Watch
• Director of the San Francisco Day Laborer Program
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