Speakers
List of speakers
Topics:
Civil Liberties and Policing
Conservatism
Democracy
Environmental Crises
Health Care and Reproductive Rights
Immigration
Labor Movements
Latin America and the Caribbean
Middle East
Militarism and the Arms Race
Public Protest
Race in the US
US Foreign Policy
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Alexander Aviña, alexander.avina@asu.edu, is available to speak on immigration, US–Latin America relations. He is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University. He researches social movements and state violence in 20th century Mexico, and his current research project explores the links between the political economy of narcotics, drug wars, and state violence in 1960s…
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Medea Benjamin, medea@codepink.org, is available to speak on resisting US militarism and interventions. She is a co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years. Described as “one of America’s most committed—and most effective—fighters for human…
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Phyllis Bennis, pbennis@ips-dc.org, is available to speak on Palestine-Israel US policy in the Middle East Including Yemen war, Syria, Gulf monarchies, Arab Spring, US-Iran conflict, US-UN relations. She is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, where she directs the New Internationalism Project, and is a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She…
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Leslie Cagan, lesliecagan@igc.org, is available to speak on why working on climate change is important now; the power of public protest including mass mobilizations; challenges to organizing in a pandemic; setting organizing priorities as a new administration sets in. Coordinator of The Peoples Climate Movement, NY; former national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice.…
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Horace Campbell, hgcampbe@syr.edu, is available to speak on issues of peace and reconstruction in the 21st century, including reparations and reparative claims; US militarism; US wars against liberation movements (especially in Africa); the lies of the Cold War. Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University, he is a noted international peace…
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Aviva Chomsky, avi.chomsky@salemstate.edu, is available to speak on social and economic issues in Latin America and the Caribbean and on immigration in the U.S. She is a Professor of History at Salem State University. “My recent work has been in three main areas: the Cuban revolution, northern Colombia’s coal industry, and immigration and undocumentedness in…
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Oliver Fein, ofein@med.cornell.edu, is available to speak on healthcare. He is an M.D. at Cornell Medical School. “Dr. Oliver Fein is a general internist with interest and experience in health policy. . . . Dr. Fein’s work has focused on health system delivery reform on both the national and local levels. . . . [His]…
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Bill Fletcher Jr, billfletcherjr@gmail.com, is available to address US foreign policy, electoral politics, labor and workers’ movements, and right-wing populism. He is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator. “Bill Fletcher Jr has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard,…
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Joshua Freeman, jfreeman@gc.cuny.edu, is available to address contemporary and recent labor relations in the U.S. He is a Distingished Professor in the CUNY Graduate Center. “Freeman was born in 1949 in New York City to working class parents. . . . Freeman’s research focuses on labor history and the sociology of working-class people. He writes…
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Marlene Fried, mgfss@hampshire.edu, is available to speak on abortion and reproductive justice. She is a Professor of Philosophy and faculty director of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program at Hampshire College. “Her scholarship and teaching is focused primarily on abortion rights and access, reproductive and sexual rights and health, and legal theory. . .…