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Speakers & Artists
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 | | Father Roy Bourgeois
Longtime Human Rights and Peace Activist
• Founder of the Human Rights Group SOA Watch (School of the Americas Watch)
• Recipient of Several Prominent Peace Awards
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 | | Elaine Brown
Veteran Civil Rights Leader & Author
• New Age Racism in America: The Elimination of Race, Gender and Class Disparities
• First and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party in the 1970s
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 | | Linda Burnham
Activist & Writer for Women's Rights & Racial Justice
• Founder and Former Executive Director of the Women of Color Resource Center
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 | | Ward Churchill
Native American Scholar, Activist & Author
• Author of over 20 books including From A Native Son, Critical Issues in Native North Americaand A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas
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 | | Kevin Danaher
Expert on the Green Economy & Globalization
- Founder & Executive Producer of the Green Festivals & Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center
- Author of Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots, among numerous other books
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 | | Angela Davis
Author, Educator and Activist
– Author of numerous books on the prison industrial complex including Abolition Democracy and Are Prisons Obsolete?
- Leader in the movement for economic, racial, and gender equality
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 | | David Hilliard
Former Black Panther Party Chief of Staff
• Author of This Side of Glory, a compelling eyewitness account of the Black Panthers and the biography Huey, Spirit of the Panther
• A vibrant voice on civil rights history who speaks eloquently to racial divisions today
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 | | Ericka Huggins
Human Rights Activist, Poet and Scholar
• Former Black Panther leader and political prisoner
• Lectures focus on womens' leadership, physical and emotional well-being of women and children, youth incarceration, education, and the role of spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting change
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 | | Clarence Lusane
Author, Scholar and Journalist on Race, Human Rights and Electoral Politics
- Expert on comparative race relations, international human rights, social movements and electoral politics
- Author of several books, including a major work, The Black History of the White House, forthcoming this fall
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 | | Madonna Thunder Hawk
Community Organizer in Native America
• One of the original members of the American Indian Movement (AIM)
• Co-founder of the Black Hills Alliance and Women of All Nations
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 | | John Trudell
Poet, Recording Artist, Actor and Activist
•Books of poetry include his latest, Lines from a Mined Mind: The Words of John Trudell
• Has released some one dozen albums featuring his poetry set to traditional Native music as well as contemporary sounds
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