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jianli yang
 A leading organizer in the Chinese student democracy movement, he is among forty-nine individuals blacklisted by the Beijing government. As research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and President of The Foundation For China In The 21st Century, he continues to provide a forceful and unique perspective on this historic struggle. Jianli Yang, returned to his adopted home in 2007 in the United States after five years in Chinese prisons.
DEBRA LIANG-FENTON
 The denial of human rights in North Korea is a terrible injustice that can no longer be ignored. As Executive Director of the US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, Debra Liang-Fenton discusses North Korea's nuclear weapon threat, the politics of famine, the inhumane treatment of political prisoners and its military buildup. CLEVE
JONES
As founder of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, he has collected thousands of panels representing individual lives lost to the disease. Jones offers an eye-opening and heart-felt presentation on how this epidemic impacts victims’ friends, families and communities across America and around the world. His autobiography is Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an Activist. Cleve Jones will be portrayed by Emile Hirsch in Gus Van Sant's upcoming movie MILK.
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KERNAGHAN
Head
of the National Labor Committee,
Charles Kernaghan has brought
the issue of sweatshop abuses
and child labor to the American
people. He has traveled the
world to expose worker and
human rights abuses by corporate
giants like Wal-Mart, GAP,
Disney and Sean John. Kernaghan
and his organization have
helped shape the debate over
outsourcing, calling for enforceable
laws to protect women’s
and workers’ rights
and to end the “race
to the bottom” in the
global economy. ANNA
ROSMUS
Anna
Rosmus triggered a firestorm
of controversy in her German
hometown by writing about
the role it played under the
Nazi regime; her story has
been told in the film The Nasty Girl, as
well as in her “60 Minutes” interview. She is committed
to combating the neo-Nazi
movement and extreme right in Germany. She has received
numerous awards for her efforts. ENRIQUE MORONES
In the debate about guest workers and border fences, we often forget the human side of the story. Enrique Morones is determined to help us all remember. He is the founder of Border Angels, a humanitarian organization which provides support and relief to migrant workers on the US-Mexican border. He wants Americans to know the truth about the people behind the immigration policy debates, both migrants and the vigilante Minutemen. JONATHAN
KOZOL
Author
of Death
at an Early Age,
Mr. Kozol is a respected critic
of the American education
system. With Illiterate
America
he examined the issue of adult
illiteracy, and Rachel
and Her Children
was a bitterly eloquent look
at homelessness in America.
Other books include Children
of the Revolution
and The
Night is Dark and I Am Far
From Home, Savage Inequities
and Amazing
Grace.
His newest book, Ordinary
Resurrections
is a chronicle of the words
and thoughts of schoolchildren
from the South Bronx.
FREDERICK LANE
 If personal privacy is something we truly value, how do we find a balance with the role of emerging technologies? Attorney and technology expert Lane takes a hard look at the rapid evolving laws governing computers, privacy and free speech, at home, in school and in the workplace. Look for his upcoming book, The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture.
http://www.fredericklane.com
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arn chorn pond
How does a child who was both a victim and survivor of the Cambodian genocide grow to become an internationally recognized human rights leader? A founder of Children of War, an international youth leadership organization for building community, activism and healing for teenagers, Pond opens our eyes and hearts, and helps us to heal.
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SISTER HELEN PREJEAN
 Author of Dead Man Walking, Roman Catholic nun Sister Helen Prejean offers a candid and intense meditation on the complex and troubling issue of capital punishment. Her book was made into an Academy Award winning film starring Susan Sarandon. Prejean counsels death-row inmates and their families around the country, and has written her second book The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions.
FAROOKA
GAUHARI
 Powerful and touching! A voice for countless Afghan families, Farooka shares her experiences of escape and loss and helps us to understand life under totalitarian rule. Her critically acclaimed book, Searching for Saleem: An Afghan Woman's Odyssey, was applauded as the first English language memoir by an Afghan woman.
avi cover
 This attorney and advocate works to promote human rights and civil liberties in U.S. counterterrorism and national security policy. As well as analyzing U.S. uses of security and detention at home and abroad, Cover helps coordinate legislative efforts in Human Rights First's "End Torture Now" campaign. He has also monitored the military commission process, attending hearings at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. HARVEY
SILVERGLATE
Finding your liberties and conscience under attack? Attorney, activist and a founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Silverglate addresses the issues that profoundly affect us all: freedom of conscience, academic freedom, civil liberties, freedom in cyberspace, and individual rights. BETH
SHULMAN
Most Americans believe hard work entitles us to financial security. Ground breaking author, attorney and organizer Beth Shulman goes beyond the statistics to reveal the real life stories of America's working poor. Her new book, The Betrayal of Work: How Low Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and Their Families, has received tremendous recognition and applause. HOWARD
ZINN
Historian, activist, and author of A People's History of the United States, Zinn has been a leader in the civil rights, anti-war and social justice movements for decades. Having spent his life speaking truth to power, Zinn says "I would argue that dissent is the highest form of patriotism." BRENT MICKUM
Mickum
is a lawyer who represents
some of the Guantanamo detainees
and has worked successfully
to release some of them. He
works pro bono through the
Center for Constitutional
Rights, and is very eloquent
about the constitutional and
human rights principles involved.
He works very hard to show
a different perspective in
these cases.
THE holocaust dialogue
 Dr. Zohara Boyd and Dr. Peter Petschauer were both children in Europe during World War II, but had very different experiences. Dr. Boyd grew up in Poland during the Nazi occupation and obtained documents of a Polish Catholic family to survive. Dr. Petschauer was the son of a SS officer in Germany. They met as academic colleagues and now share their stories and lessons they've learned with people around the nation.
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