ISCC Speak Out
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The ISCC Speak Out
Participants
- Opal Palmer Adisa, Poet, educator
- Marjorie Agosin, Latin American Writer
- Karin San Juan Aguilar, Activist, Writer
- Michael Albert, Political activist, analyst
- Daniel Nane Alejandrez, verteran Latino activist
- Robert L. Allen, co-editor, Brotherman
- Elvia Alvarado, Head, International Relations for the Union of Rural World
- Tom Ammiano, President, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
- Carl Anthony, President, Earth Island Institute; Director, EII Urban Habitat Program
- Gloria Anzaldúa, author
- Tom Athanasiou, author
- Diana Avila, Committee, Gay and Lesbian Rights: El Salvador
- George Azar, Photojournalist
- Amiri Baraka, poet, writer, political activist, teacher
- Karen Bass, Director, Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment
- Ignatius Bau, HIV Program Coordinator & Policy Director, Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum
- Rosalyn Baxandall, founder, women's liberation movement; Chair and Professor of American Studies
- Medea Benjamin, co-founder & co-director of Global Exchange
- Suzy Berger, entertainer
- Chip Berlet, speaker
- A.K. Black, lyricist, performer, speaker, "edutainer"
- John Bonifaz, attorney, scholar
- Blase Bonpane, abolitionist
- boona cheema, Executive Director, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS)
- Father Roy Bourgeois, priest, director of SOA Watch
- Peter and Follow Me Home Bratt, writer, director
- Elaine Brown, Leader, Black Panther Party
- Steven E. Brown, Founder, Institute on Disability Culture
- Dennis Brutus, Poet
- Linda Burnham, Co-founder, Women of Color Resource Center
- Jean Caiani, Founder, Speak Out
- Helen Caldicott, Founder, Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Eugene J. Jr. Carroll, Deputy Director, Center for Defense Information, Rear Admiral USN (Ret.)
- Celerino Cele Castillo, Former Drug Enforcement Administration agent
- Margaret Cerullo, writer & speaker
- Pamela Chiang, co-founder, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
- Chic Street Man, musician
- Noam Chomsky, time activist, writer, and lecturer
- Peggy Myo-Young Choy, choreographer, dancer, and activist
- Ward Churchill, Professor, Ethnic Studies & Coordinator, American Indian Studies
- Kim Cook, Executive Director, Oakland Youth Chorus
- Sarah Crowell, i am! Productions
- José Dr. Loco Cueller, Chair, La Raza Studies; Director, Cesar E. Chavez Institute of Public Policy
- Kevin Danaher, Director, Public Education for Global Exchange
- Ron Daniels, National Chairperson, Campaign for a New Tomorrow; Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
- Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone activist
- Doris Davenport, poet and educator
- Angela Davis, author,
- Melanie DeMore, Singer-songwriter
- Dazon Dixon, Founder & President of SisterLove
- Crystal Echohawk, National Coordinator, National Commission for Democracy in Mexico
- Barbara Ehrenreich, political essayist, columnist, social critic
- Daniel Ellsberg, researcher who leaked the Pentagon Papers
- Martín Espada, Author
- Elena Featherston, producer/director
- Ronald Fernandez, Director, Center for Caribbean Studies
- Donald Freed, historian, dramatist and novelist
- Carolyn Gage, lesbian-feminist performer, director and playwright
- China Galland, Research Associate & Director, Images of Divinity Research Project at the Center for Women and Religion at Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union
- Melanie Ghosh, South Asian American activist and educator
- Jewelle Gomez, poet, fiction writer and literary critic
- Judy Gorman, lecturer, singer, songwriter and guitarist
- Erik Gustafson, Founder, Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC)
- Noelle Hanrahan, leader, movement to free Mumi Abu-Jamal, Director, Prison Radio Project
- Jennifer Harbury, Speaker
- Lakota Harden, orator, activist, community organizer, facilitator, dancer and poet
- Chaia Heller, a writer, educator and activist
- Jane Henderson, co-director, Quixote Center, founded Equal Justice USA project
- Brenda Henson and Wanda Henson
- Gabriel Hernandez, labor organizer, Service Employees International Union
- Laura Hershey, disability rights leader and poet
- James Hightower, popular populist, author
- David Hilliard, former Chief of Staff, Black Panther Party, author
- Fred Ho, musician
- Dewayne and Frankie Quintero Holmes, FACES
- Alice Y. Hom, writer, historian, and educator
- Ralf Hotchkiss, Research Scientist and Technical Leader of the Wheeled Mobility Center
- Loraine Hutchins, lecturer, humorist, performance artist and national leader of the bisexual movement
- Patricia Ireland, President, National Organization for Women (NOW)
- Mariannette Jaimes-Guerrero, Native American scholar, writer and researcher
- Lani Ka'ahumanu, political organizer, writer, poet; co-editor, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out
- Michio Kaku, internationally-renouned nuclear physicist, author
- Paula Kamen, author
- Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, former Executive Director, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
- Michelle and David Keip, self defense training
- Paul Kivel
- Winona LaDuke, Campaign Director, White Earth Land Recovery Project, Program Director, Seventh Generation Fund
- Patrick Letellier, co-editor, National Lesbian and Gay Domestic Violence Network Newsletter
- Aurora Levins Morales, writer, essayist and historian
- Victor Lewis, actor, writer
- Victor Lewis and Hugh Vasquez
- Dave Lippman, comedian
- Kevin Locke, flute player; hoop dancer
- Yolanda Lopez
- Miriam Ching Louie, Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC)
- Barbara Lubin, Director, Middle East Children's Alliance
- Clarence Lusane, author, activist, scholar, lecturer, journalist
- Roberto Maestas, Founder & Executive Director, El Centro de la Raza
- Elizabeth Martinez, author, past director, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
- Peggy McIntosh, Founder & co-director, National S.E.E.D. (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Project on Inclusive Curriculum
- Reanae McNeal, international performing artist
- Robert Meeropol, Founder & Director, Rosenberg Fund for Children
- Midnight Voices, innovative rap group
- Charlene Mitchell, Leader, Committees of Correspondence
- Anuradha Mittal, Policy Director, Food First
- Nobuko Miyamoto, Great Leap
- Richard Moore, Coordinator, Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
- Cherríe Moraga, poet, playwright, essayist and storyteller
- Carlos Munoz, Jr., prominent political scientist, historian and writer
- Daphne Muse, journalist, writer, editor
- Jesus Chuy Negrete, musician
- Gus Newport, interim Executive Director, Jubilee West
- Brother Noland, musician
- Daniel Osuna, creator, The Positive Revolution
- Gina Pacaldo, dancer
- Michael Parenti, Author
- Greg Payton, international peace activist
- Constancio Pinto, leader, East Timor's independence movement, author
- Frances Fox Piven, author, activist and scholar
- Colin Rajah, Program Director, JustAct (Youth ACTion for Global JUSTice)
- Maria Ramos, teacher
- Margaret Randall, writer, photographer, activist and teacher
- Elayne Rapping, writer
- Libby Roderick, singer/songwriter
- Ninotchka Rosca, novelist
- Loretta Ross, founder & Executive Director, Center for Human Rights Education
- Kate Rushin, poet, teacher and author
- Sonia Sanchez, writer, professor and activist
- John Santos, musician
- Lydia Sargent, co-editor, Z Magazine
- Renée Saucedo, the La Raza Centro Legal of San Francisco
- Danny Schechter, journalist
- Joni Seager, feminist geographer and author
- Mab Segrest, author, coordinates a program of the World Council of Churches
- Rinku Sen, co-director, Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO)
- Aishah Shahidah Simmons, feminist lesbian independent filmmaker
- Holly Sklar, writer & political analyst
- Judith Sloan, lecturer and comedienne
- Erica Smith, i am! Productions
- Noemi Sohn, activist, media consultant and filmmaker
- Rubén Solís, founder, Southwest Workers' Union & Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
- Norman Solomon, free-lance journalist, author and lecturer
- Lee Stringer, storyteller
- Cathi Tactaquin, Director, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- Luis Bato Talamantez, human rights activist and artist
- Piri Thomas, poet, author
- Rae Lewis Thornton, lecturer
- Grace Thorpe, President, National Environmental Coalition of Native Americans
- Madonna Thunder Hawk, cofounder & spokesperson, HeSapa Institute (Black Hills, SD)
- Brian Tokar, activist & writer
- Deborah Toler, coordinator, Food First's Africa and Haiti programs, author
- Tom Tomorrow, creator, This Modern World, author
- Haunani-Kay Trask, Hawaiian nationalist, political organizer, poet, and professor of Hawaiian Studies
- Barbara Trent, filmmaker
- John Trudell, Santee Sioux poet, musician and fighter for Native American rights
- Maria Teresa Tula, Companion Community Development Alternatives (CoCoDA),
- Walter Turner, Board President, Institute for a New South Africa; Global Exchange
- Loung Ung
- Upsurge!, poetry
- Hugh Vasquez, founding Director, TODOS Institute
- Rev. C. T. Vivian, Basic Action Strategies and Information Center; Center for Democratic Renewal; National Center for Human Rights Education, speaker
- Rev. Lucius Walker, Executive Director, Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)
- Howard Wallace, Executive Board, San Francisco Labor Council, Health Care Workers Local 250, Pride at Work
- Junius Williams, musician
- John K. Wilson, commentator
- Tim Wise, author
- Diana Wiwa, international representative, Federation of Ogoni Women Association (FOWA)
- Kalamu Ya Salaam, author
- Miya Yoshitani, community organizer, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
- Billie Jean Young, musician
- Howard Zinn, author, historian