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* Last Updated 10/20/2007

Labor

Sharon Cornu
Executive Secretary Treas. Alameda Central Labor Council

Tim Paulson,
Exec. Sec. Treas. San Francisco Central Labor Council

Shelley Kessler
Ex. Sec. Tres. San Mateo Central labor Council

The Alameda Central Labor Council

Connie Ford
Secretary-Treaasurer OPEIU Local 3, Vice President San Francisco Labor Council

Mike Casey
President, UNITE HERE, Local 2

Tho Thi Do
No. Calif. Organizer, UNITE HERE

Peter Olney,
Organizing Director, Intl. Longshore & Warehouse Union-International

Irwin Lum,
President Transit Workers Union Local 250, MUNI, San Francisco

David Bacon, labor reporter and photographer

Allen Fisher,
Political Director, American Federation of Teachers, Local 2121

Jane McDonald,
Director Statewide AFSCME Local 3299

William (Bill) Harvey,
Sec. Tres. CWA Local 9415

Mary McGee
SEIU Local 1021

Ed Kinchley
SEIU Local 1021

Ed Warshauer
SEIU Local 1021, San Francisco

Christina Huggings
Ex. Vice President, CWA Local 9415

Mike Eisenscher
Coordinator Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace and Justice; National Coordinator Labor Against the War

Margy Wilkinson
Coalition of University Employees, Local 3 (retired)

Paul & Sandy Kaplan
Sonoma County union activists

Tonette Garcia
Worksite Organizer, SEIU Local 1021

Marty Bennett
Co-Chair, Living Wage Coalition Sonoma County

Harry Brill
labor activist

Academic:

Steve Pitts
UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research & Education

Pam Tau Lee
UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program

Bill Shields
Chair of Labor & Community Studies, CIty College of San Francisco

Jack Kurtzweil
Co-Chair, Peace and justice Committee California Faculty Assn.

Kay Trimberger
Institute for the Study of Social Change, UC Berkeley

Barbara Epstein
Professor, UC Santa Cruz, Editorial Board Monthly Review

Matthew Lasar
Pacifica historian, author “Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network

Mary Fromer
Organizing Director SEIU Local 707, Sonoma County (retired)

Community

Eric Mar
San Francisco School Board

Kevin Danaher
co-founder, Global Exchange

Sonya Mehta
Young Workers United

Mike Rhodes
Editor of the Fresno Community Alliance

Alex Tom
Campaign Coordinator, Chinese Progressive Association

Guiliana Milanese
community activist

Eric Quezada
Mission District activist

Renee Saucedo
Ex. Dir. San Francisco Day Laborers Program

Joe Navarro
Poet and Chicano activist

Lynn Hamilton
Dir. Clean Water Initiative

Don Frank
Progressive Democrats of Sonoma County/Sierra Club

Bob Meyer
President Progressive Perspectives

Ying Lee
community activist, Berkeley Library Board

Margret Dutton
WILPF activist

Lillian Galedo
Ex. Dir. Filipinos for Affirmative Action

Nick Jones
Atchison Village Coop

Susan Chacin
Democratic Socialists of America

Lynne Hollander Savio
Chair, Mario Savio Memorial Lecture

Elsa Johnson
Women’s Therapy Center

Amaha Kassa
Director East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE)

Zhenya Spake
Marin Peace & Justice Coalition

Jack Radey
Activist, Eugene, Or.

Media & the Arts

Reese Erlich
Journalist and author

Norman Solomon
Executive Director Institute for Public Accuracy, Author of Media Beat

Sharron Wood
film-maker, co-producer “KPFA On the Air”

Larry Bensky
Pacifica National Affairs Correspondent Emeritus
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Sally Phillips
KPFA music DJ

Susan Stone
former KPFA Literature and Drama Director

Alan Snitow

Jon Fromer
Freedom Song Network

Conn Hallinan
columnist Foreign Policy In Focus, Berkeley Daily Planet, Vice-Chair Local Station Board

Max Pringle
KPFA labor beat reporter

C.S. Soong
Host KPFA’s “Against the Grain”

Pratap Chatterjee
Director Corpwatch and hjost of “Terra Verde”

Amelia Gonzalez-Garcia
Director Art & Humanities KPFA

Aileen Alfandary
KPFA News Co-Director

Philip Maldari
Co-Host Morning Show KPFA

Deborah Speer
Director Fresno Free College Foundation, KPFA activist, founding member of the Pacifica National Board Affiliates Committee

Scoop Nisker

Pat Wynne
Dir. Bay Area Rockin’ Solidarity Chorus

Bernie Gilbert
Freedom Song Network AFM 1000

Aaron Glantz
Founding Producer, Free Speech Radio News