Kathleen Antrim
Author, journalist, columnist for SF & Wash DC Examiner Newspapers, contributor to NewsMax and political commentator on national radio and television. Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin is a well-known U.S. political activist. The Los Angeles Times has described her as "one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement," and in 1999, San Francisco Magazine included her on their "power list" of the "60 Players Who Rule the Bay Area." Pratap Chatterjee
Pratap is an investigative journalist and author of "Iraq Inc.: A Profitable Occupation" (Seven Stories Press, 2004) and "The Earth Brokers" (Routledge Press, 1994). He hosts a weekly radio show on Berkeley station KPFA, working as global environment editor for InterPress Service and as a freelance writer for the Financial Times, the Guardian and the Independent of London. Jamal Dajani
Award winning producer of "Mosaic" and the Director of Middle Eastern Programming at Link TV. Dajani also produced "Occupied Minds", a documentary shedding light on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Dajani is a Palestinian who is born and raised in Jerusalem. He is also a frequent guest on numerous national and international media broadcast networks. J. Bradford DeLong
J. Bradford DeLong is a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, chair of its political economy major, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and was in the Clinton administration a deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. Reese Erlich
An extraordinary journalist with a career of breaking interesting international stories before they hit the headlines in other media. Reports regularly for NPR, CBC, ABC (Australia), Radio Deutsche Welle and The World, as well as several newspapers. New book "The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis." Deborah James
Deborah James is the Global Economy Director at Global Exchange, where she has worked since 1993 to democratize the global economy. Antonia Juhasz
Antonia Juhasz is a policy-analyst, author and activist living in San Francisco. She is also author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time. Juhasz is an expert on all aspects of international trade and finance policy with a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University, experience as a Legislative Assistant to two United States Members of Congress, and over ten years of work in the field. She is a passionate writer and speaker who conveys complex information in a manner that is both accessible and motivational to others. Ian King

Leo Lacayo
Leo Lacayo is the most prominent Republican media surrogate in Northern California with hundreds of television and radio interviews to his credit. Peter Laufer
Award winning journalist, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker. While a globe-trotting correspondent for NBC News, he also reported, wrote, and produced several documentaries and special event broadcasts for the network that dealt in detail with crucial social issues, including HIV/AIDS, Vietnam veterans, hunger in America, illiteracy, immigration and drug trade. Ted Lewis
Activist, election observer, expert on Mexico election. Ted Lewis directs the human rights programs of Global Exchange and is a long time democracy and antiwar activist. Thomas A. Nazario

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Mitchell Plitnick
Analyst for Israeli and Middle East Affairs. Director of Administration and Policy for Jewish Voice for Peace, and is also a columnist for Tikkun Magazine. Donna Rosenthal
Award winning journalist and author DONNA ROSENTHAL frequently comments about Israel and the Middle East on TV and radio - from CNN to NBC, ABC to FOX and NPR. Ms. Rosenthal is author of the internationally acclaimed THE ISRAELIS: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land. In Publishers Weekly national survey, Ms. Rosenthal placed in the Top Ten most popular speakers on Israel -- and only female. She was an Israel TV news producer and reporter for Israel Radio.She also was an on-air reporter for Veronica TV of the Netherlands. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic and other publications. Ms. Rosenthal has reported from Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan. Mark Schapiro

Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. He has been writing the weekly "Media Beat" column since 1992. Chris Springer
Chris has researched North Korean domestic affairs for the last 12 years and is the author of "Pyongyang: The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital." He has visited North Korea three times, most recently in May 2007. Art Torres
Arthur "Art" Torres is the current Chairman of the California Democratic Party, a position he has held since 1995, and is the first Latino in the California Democratic Party to have been nominated for statewide office when he won the Democratic primary for insurance commissioner in 1994. Kriss Worthington