Marc Becker
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Jon Wiener, wiener@uci.edu – major research interests, recent American history, Cold War culture. Professor Emertitus, University of California Irvine. “Jon Wiener . . . sued the FBI for their files on John Lennon . . . That story is told in his book Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files. . . . He’s…
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Barbara Weinstein, barbara.weinstein@nyu.edu, is available to speak on Trump’s impact on Latin American politics. Professor of History, New York University. She is “Silver Professor of History and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working…
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Liz Theoharis, liz.theoharis@gmail.com, is available to speak on issues of democracy, poverty, racism, ecological devastation, militarism, and Christian nationalism. She is Director of the Kairos Center at Union Theological Seminary. Rev. Theorharis is “Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival with the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II that organized the…
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Paul Y. Song, paulysong@gmail.com, is available to speak on healthcare. He is President of the California Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. He “is a physician, progressive activist, and biotechnology chief medical officer. . . . Dr. Song serves as the co-chair for a Campaign for a Healthy California. . . . In…
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Andor Skotnes, skotna@sage.edu, is available to speak on race, class, and intersectionality in social struggle; the workers and freedom movements in recent U.S. history; sixties movements. He is a Professor of History at Russell Sage College (retired). Skotnes sees himself primarily as a historian of social movements in their complexity and interrelationships. In his work…
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Daniel A. Sjursen, dannysjursen@hotmail.com, is available to speak on U.S. foreign and military policy post-9/11, reframing patriotism and dissent, antiwar veteran experience, American Empire, race/class/social justice links to U.S. militarism. He is a U.S. Army major (retired); senior fellow at the Center for International Policy (CIP), director of the Eisenhower Media Network (EMN), and contributing editor at Antiwar.com. He describes…
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Alan Singer, Alan.J.Singer@hofstra.edu, is available to speak on the crisis of democracy, the current crisis in the U.S and in education. He is a Professor of Teaching, Learning and Technology at Hofstra University. “Alan Singer is a social studies educator and historian . . . Dr. Singer is a graduate of the City College of…
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Ellen Schrecker, ellen.schrecker@gmail.com, is available to speak on civil liberties. She is a Professor of History at Yeshiva University (retired). She has been studying higher education and political repression for over thirty years. The author of Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America, Schrecker is widely recognized as one of the leading experts on that grim period…
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Susan Rogers, rgrsssn@gmail.com, is available to speak on healthcare and racial inequities. President of Physicians for a National Health Program, Dr. Rogers “is recently retired from Stroger Hospital of Cook County but continues as a volunteer attending hospitalist and internist there. While at Stroger Hospital, she was co-director of medical student programs for the Department…
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Margaret Power, marmacpower1@gmail.com, is available to speak on right-wing women, the recent history of Chile and Puerto Rico, and the Right in general. She is a Professor of History at Illinois Tech. She “focuses on Latin America, women, and gender. Her earlier work explored why a large number of Chilean women opposed the socialist government…