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	Nov 04, 2003
Harvey Wasserman Free Press Senior Editor and "Superpower of Peace" columnist Harvey Wasserman is also senior advisor to Greenpeace USA and the Nuclear Information & Resource Service. He is author or co-author of six books, including four on nuclear power and renewable energy, and two histories of the United States. Harvey's first demonstration (for civil rights) was in 1962, as a junior at Eastmoor High School. After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1967, Harvey helped found the legendary anti-war Liberation News Service, which in 1968 moved to the Montague (Massachusetts) Farm, still in operation (under the stewardship of the Peacemaker Community) as one of the longest-standing organic communal farms in US history. In 1973 Montague became a launching pad for the grassroots anti-nuclear movement. Harvey helped coin the phrase "No Nukes" in the successful fight against twin reactors proposed nearby. In 1976 he helped organize the Clamshell Alliance, which staged the first mass demonstrations against the Seabrook nuclear plant. In 1979 he co-organized the Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) concerts in Madison Square Garden in 1979. In 1994 he spoke for Greenpeace to 350,000 semi-conscious fans at Woodstock 2. Most recently Harvey has focussed on the rising renewable energy industry. In 2002 he co-authored, with legendary windpower pioneer Dan Juhl of Pipestone, Minnesota, HARVESTING WIND ENERGY AS A CASH CROP: A GUIDE TO LOCALLY OWNED WIND FARMING (www.danmar.us). He is hoping to convert Ohio and the world to a "Solartopia" of wind and solar power. He is also working for the Superpower of Peace and its inevitable victory over the evil forces of the Bush Junta.
	Sept 16, 2003
Grace Ross Coordinator and Lead Organizer of Sisters Together Ending Poverty for sixteen years, Secretary of the Economic Human Rights Project, brings core insights in strategizing, leadership development, oppression dynamics and healing. Having worked in numerous movements and having trained thousands in movement skills, she is white, raised well-to-do, lesbian, witch.	Patrick Keaney Campaign Manager for Felix Arroyo who is running for reelection to the Boston City Council as a city-wide, at-large candidate. Patrick served as campaign coordinator for Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein when she ran for Governor in Mass- achusetts last year.
	August 26, 2003
Tyson Slocum joined Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program (CMEEP) in 2000 and is the research director, focusing on adequate regulation of energy markets, electric utility deregulation, petroleum and natural gas policy, and corporate responsibility. He is the author of numerous reports on these subjects, and appears regularly in radio, print, and television media. Tyson brings his research experience from Citizens for Tax Justice. He received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.	Sam Green, co-director, producer, and writer of "The Weather Underground" documentary film, received his Masters in journalism from UC Berkeley. His most recent documentary, "Pie Fight 69" premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and won an honorable mention in the shorts category. Bill Siegel, co-director and producer, has worked on many films including "Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story" and "Hoop Dreams." Currently he also is the Director of school programs for the Great Books Foundation, a non-profit educational and literacy organization.
	August 19, 2003
Peggy O'Malley serves as Chair and Director of MassCare: The Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care. She advocates for universal health care for all. Dumas LaFontaine directs the Lower Roxbury Coalition; an organization devoted to healthy families, peaceful streets, and community-based economic development.	Bruce Blaisdell is the Executive Director of the Boston-based Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry. In July 2003, at a rally in favor of fair budget priorities, he said, "...in the 23 years that our shelters have been open we estimate we have touched the lives of over 1,000 women and children. It is people like these, vulnerable women and children, who are going to be hurt by these budget cuts."	Andrea Hornbein organizes for human rights on behalf of many organizations and individuals, including Leonard Peltier and the groups trying to stop the construction of a women's prison in Chicopee, MA. She is actively involved in the social justice work sponsored by the Community Church of Boston.
	August 12, 2003
William P. Quigley is a law professor as well as Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University in New Orleans. Bill has been an active public interest lawyer for over 25 years. Bill has served as counsel with a wide range of public interest organizations on issues including public housing, voting rights, death penalty, living wage, civil liberties, educational reform, constitutional rights and civil disobedience. Bill has litigated numerous cases with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc and with the ACLU of Louisiana, for which he served as the General Counsel for over 15 years. Bill teaches in the clinic and teaches courses in poverty law and Catholic social teaching and law.	His research and writing has focused on minimum wage, the right to a job, legal services, community organizing as part of effective lawyering, civil disobedience, high stakes testing, and a continuing history of how the laws have regulated the poor since colonial times. He has served as an advisor on human and civil rights to Human Rights Watch, the Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, and served as the Chair of the Louisiana Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights. Bill is the author of Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right to A Job At A Living Wage (Temple University Press, 2003). Bill was named the Pope John Paul VI national teacher of Peace by Pax Christi in 2003.	Eleanor Holmes Norton is now in her seventh term as the Congresswoman for the District of Columbia. Named by President Jimmy Carter as the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she came to Congress as a national figure who had been a civil rights and feminist leader, tenured professor of law, and board member of three Fortune 500 companies. Ms. Norton also had been named one of the 100 most important American women in one survey and one of the most powerful women in Washington in another. The Congresswoman’s work for full congressional voting representation and for full democracy for the people of the District of Columbia continues her lifelong struggle for universal human rights.
	August 05, 2003
Janet Cormier says shes an edgy African-American political comic who, by her own admission, "doesn't try to appeal to the faint of heart or fence-sitter." She says what she thinks about everything and anything: war/peace/botox/dating... and she lives in Jamaica Plain, so she's immersed in politics and activism.	Tissa Hami is one of the few female Muslim stand-up comics in the world. Her unique act and fresh perspective on life as an Iranian-American woman leave audiences in shock and awe. From Islamic fundamentalists to white liberals to good old-fashioned racists, no one is safe from Tissa's sharp wit. Tissa, who performs in Islamic hijab, hopes her comedy will help break down stereotypes about Muslim women and foster understanding between Iranians and Americans. Tissa grew up in a traditional Iranian family in a predominantly white suburb of Boston. She holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in international affairs from Ivy League universities. Her parents are thrilled that she is using her expensive, elite education to pursue a career in comedy.	Jean Parker is a member of the Board of Directors of Radio for Peace International.