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 educate the public about the true cost and consequences of war by looking past the headlines that justify war to focuses on the people living and dying with the weapons and destruction aimed at them. Leah’s first hand experience helps us move away from abstract political & economic discussions of war to confront its reality with an aim of building coalitions for peace.
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
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
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 Trial Week 8 - State Department/Wikileaks harm
Alexa updates the week’s events in the courtroom which was dominated by testimony from the State Department regarding the impact of the leaks. Government (…)
9 August 2013
Barrett Brown - Activist and writer
Barrett Brown is an activist and writer who evolved from reporting about Anonymous to becoming involved with information leaked through hacks. He talks (…)
18 May 2012
David Swanson - Secretary of Peace Green Shadow Cabinet
David Swanson is a journalist, activist, organizer, educator, and agitator. He serves as a non-veteran associate with Veterans For Peace communications, the (…)
13 May 2013
Chris Hedges - Award Wnning War Correspondent & NDAA Plaintiff
Chris Hedges spent almost two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, the Balkans and Africa. He has reported from more than (…)
22 February 2013
Samantha Castro - Wikileaks Party & Underground film
Sam gives an overview of her co-founding of the Wikileaks Citizens Alliance WACA explaing the world events that made defending Wikileaks essential. She (…)
19 April 2013