David Swanson is a journalist, activist, organizer, educator, and agitator. He serves as a non-veteran associate with Veterans For Peace communications, the perfect role for the author of War Is A Lie - When the World Outlawed War and The Military Industrial Complex at 50 . He is the host of Talk Nation Radio where his passion for non-violent revolution enlightens and inspires grass roots reform. David helped organize Occupy Freedom Plaza in Washington DC in 2011, he was the press secretary for Dennis Kucinich’s 2004 presidential campaign, media coordinator for International Labor Communications Association and Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. He works as Campaign Coordinator for the online activist organization Roots Action and Swanson is Secretary of Peace in the Green Shadow Cabinet.
Claire Robinson - GMO Basics Genetic Engineering Politics & Science
Claire Robinson is research director at Earth Open Source a platform for collaborative science in the public interest and editor at GMWatch which tracks the (…)
20 September 2012
Jillian York - Director International Expression EFF
Jillian York is a journalist and International Director of Freedom of Expression for Electronic Frontier Foundation. With the Internet as the new (…)
20 July 2012
Dan Howells - Greenpeace Save the Arctic
Dan Howells comes to us from the front lines of Save the Arctic, as Deputy Campaigns Director of Greenpeace USA. He shares some of the groups history, the (…)
1 December 2012
Alexa O’Brien - Manning’s Statement
This interview occurred three days after Bradley Manning spoke for the first time on his own behalf. Alexa has transcribed all of the testamony in the case (…)
3 March 2013
Dennis P. McCann - Inside Turkey Occupy Gezi OpTurkey
Dennis McCann is an artist and political activist living in Turkey. He interned with Andy Warhol and has had awards and exhibits worldwide. His works are (…)
7 June 2013
Eleana Cohen & Meg Maurus - Nat’l Lawyers Guild Occupy & Rights
Eleana Cohen and Meg Maurus attorneys with National Lawyers Guild NYC Chapter talk about NLG 100 year history of defending civil rights. Special focus is (…)
7 September 2012
Alexa O’Brien - Introduction to Wikileaks & Manning
Alexa O’Brein is a writer, researcher and activist. She was the founder of US Day of Rage that redefined the connection between social media and activism (…)
17 October 2012
JD Nero - We Are Legion - Songwriter Rapper
J.D. Nero talks about the power of music and its place in educating the public. Nero is a life-long native of Brooklyn, N.Y. with a deep passion for music (…)
26 October 2012