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 given to next weeks one year Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, what the National protests and police crackdowns show us about the current climate for free speech and how both have been involved from Legal help clinics in Liberty Park to standing before the bench as pro bono protectors of Constitutional freedoms.
Leah Bolger - President Veterans for Peace
Leah Bolger is a retired Navy Commander with 20 years of US Military Service, a full time Peace Activist and President of Veterans for Peace. VFP works to (…)
21 December 2012
Napoleon Gómez - Oxford Economist Global Union Leader
Napoleon Gómez is known worldwide for his struggle to bring unions and humans rights to workers. He is an Oxford educated economist and expert on labor (…)
31 May 2013
Asher Wolf - Grassroots Journalism, Cyber-Security & FBI in Australia
Asher Wolf is a journalist, transparency and information activist based in Australia. She is the founder of the Cryptoparty. She talks about being a target (…)
26 October 2012
Travis McCrea & Charles Sheehan Miles - Great Copyright Debate
Charles Sheehan Miles is a writer and activist who traveled throughout the Middle East on his own in the 1980’s and returned with the US Army, Gulf War (…)
3 May 2013
Alexa O’Brien - Week 9 Manning Trial Ends - Verdict Looms
Alexa O’Brien is a journalist, film-maker & digital media strategist who has provided extensive archives & only available transcripts of Wikileaks (…)
16 August 2013
Susan Lindauer - Former CIA asset Iraq War Whistleblower
As a U.S. Intelligence Asset, Susan Lindauer covered anti-terrorism at the Iraqi Embassy in New York from 1996 up to the invasion. Independent sources have (…)
4 January 2013
Ronnie Cummins - Organic Consumers & Millions Against Monsanto
Ronnie Cummins is the Founder and Director of the not for profit Organic Consumers Association that has grown to almost one million members from its (…)
24 August 2012
Travis McCrea - Pirate Party Politics & Democracy
Travis looks at the re-election of Barack Obama, institutionalized political hurdles and explains the importance of being proactive and Pirate Wheel concept (…)
23 November 2012