[Peace-discuss] Where else are you going to find all these authors and activists in one building (Seriously, if you can tell me, I'll be there!)...

[jesse phillippe]

 ...
[image: Jeremy Scahill]
*Jeremy Scahill
*Author of *Dirty Wars: The world is a
battlefield*<http://dirtywars.org/the-book>and
*Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary
Army*<http://www.amazon.com/dp/156858394X/ref=nosim/?tag=nationbooks08-20>
.


[image: Mark Clements]
*Mark Clements
*spent 28 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He now fights
tirelessly against injustice for those still behind prison bars. Mark is a
board member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty.


[image: Ali Abunimah]
*Ali Abunimah
*Palestinian journalist and co-founder of Electronic
Intifada<http://electronicintifada.net/>


[image: Joseph]
*Joseph “Jazz” Hayden*
Founding member of the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow. An advocate for
prisoners’ right to vote, Hayden was the pro se plaintiff in Hayden v.
Pataki, a class action law suit that fought for the right to vote for
prisoners. In 2012, Jazz along with a grassroots campaign successfully
defeated charges against him brought in retaliation for his Harlem cop
watch activism.


[image: Brianna Hanny]
*Briana Hanny
*Amherst College student who is active in the movements against sexual
assault and racism at Amherst College.


[image: Glenn Greenwald]
*Glenn Greenwald
*Journalist for the *Guardian*. Greenwald’s latest book *With Liberty and
Justice for Some*<http://us.macmillan.com/withlibertyandjusticeforsome/GlennGreenwald>is
an indictment of America’s two-tiered system of justice. He is the
winner of the 2010 Online Journalism Association Award for his
investigative reporting about Bradley Manning.


[image: Antonis Davanellos]
*Antonis Davanellos
*Journalist and leading member of SYRIZA, the radical left coalition party
in Greece, that got second place in the Greek elections 2 times in a row,
on a platform of unapologetically rejecting austerity.

[image: China Mieville]
*China Miéville
*"Weird fiction” author of *The City and the
City*<http://www.amazon.com/City-Random-House-Readers-Circle/dp/034549752X>,
*Embassytown*<http://www.amazon.com/Embassytown-China-Mieville/dp/0345524500>,
and *Perdido Street
Station*<http://www.amazon.com/Perdido-Street-Station-China-Mieville/dp/0345459407>
***.
*
[image: Sue Ferguson]
*Sue Ferguson
*Canadian socialist-feminist activist and theorist. An associate professor
of journalism, she has written extensively on issue of feminism, Marxism,
and social reproduction theory. More recently, she has written on the
boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.

[image: Michael Steven Smith]
*Michael Steven Smith
*Author and attorney in New York City. He is the co-host (along with Heidi
Boghosian of the National Lawyers Guild and Michael Ratner or the Center
for Constitutional Rights) of the nationally broadcast radio show “Law and
Disorder”. He is co-author with Michael Ratner of *Who Killed Che? How the
CIA Got Away With
Murder*<http://www.amazon.com/Who-Killed-Che-Away-Murder/dp/193592849X>.
Smith co-edited with Frances Goldin and Debby Smith the visionary book
*Imagine:
Living In a Socialist USA* which will be published in September. He is on
the Board of The Center for Constitutional Rights.

[image: Brian Jones]
*Brian Jones
*Teacher, actor, and activist in New York City. Jones co-narrated the film,
*The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for
Superman*<http://theinconvenienttruthbehindwaitingforsuperman.com/2012/10/20/watch-the-film/>,
and contributed to the book, *Education and Capitalism: Struggles for
Learning and Liberation*<http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Education-and-Capitalism>.
He is a member of the Movement of Rank and File Educators: the social
justice caucus of the United Federation of Teachers.

[image: Dave Zirin]
*Dave Zirin*
Left-wing sports columnist for the *Nation* <http://www.thenation.com/> and
author of *The John Carlos
Story*<http://www.haymarketbooks.org/hc/The-John-Carlos-Story>(With
Dr. Carlos),
*What’s My Name,
Fool?*<http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Whats-My-Name-Fool-Sports-and-Resistance-in-the-United-States>,
and *Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We
Love<http://thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1853>
*

...and many more amazing authors and activists?

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