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Carmencita "Chie" Abad will discuss the horrible working conditions she endured in the U.S. territory of Saipan while making clothing for the Gap. In her struggle to unionize workers, she was forced to leave the island and is now working to educate Americans about inhumane factory conditions occurring worldwide, including on U.S. soil. Chie will tell her audience what they can do to help eliminate sweatshop abuses occurring worldwide.

Rae Abileah

Rae Abileah is the co-director of CODEPINK Women for Peace (www.codepink.org). She is also a founding member of Young Jewish Proud, the youth wing of Jewish Voice for Peace. Rae has visited Israel and the West Bank several times, and has traveled to Gaza and Iran.

A.A. Akom

Dr. A.A. Akom is one of the most important emerging voices on anti-racism, environmental justice, and educational equity in the United States. He is a powerful speaker with a unique ability to connect with diverse audiences.

Afnan Al-Hashimi

19 year-old Afnan Al-Hashimi, of Iraqi decent, has been speaking out against the U.S. neoconservative administration's illegal occupation of Iraq. She has also denounced the biased American foreign policies in the Middle East, which manifested itself in the aggression against Lebanon in July 2006. She has expressed her solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Huwaida Arraf

Huwaida Arraf is a first generation Palestinian-American born and raised in Detroit, MI. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan with majors in Political Science, Arabic and Hebrew & Judaic Studies. Huwaida spent her junior year abroad, studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem -- the only Arab on the program. While in college, she co-founded and facilitated an Arab-Jewish dialogue group on campus and participated in numerous other co-existence and conflict resolution programs.

Carlos and Mélida Arredondo

Carlos Arredondo learned his son Lcpl. Alexander Arredondo, USMC was killed in action in An Najaf, Iraq on August 25, 2004. It was Alex' second tour of duty. He had recently turned 20. That day was also Carlos' 44th birthday. When advised of his son's death, Carlos, due to anguish and grief, set afire a USMC van and 26% of his body was burned in the process. These images were broadcast worldwide and resonated for many as the ultimate anguish of a father having lost his son in war.

Bama Athreya

Bama Athreya discusses East Asian political issues from three perspectives: government policy, academic analysis, and personal experience. She worked as a U.S. Embassy official in Indonesia from 1992 to 1994. Later, she returned to Indonesia to live and work with factory workers while doing field research toward a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology.

David Bacon

David Bacon is a writer and photojournalist based in Oakland and Berkeley, California. He is an associate editor at Pacific News Service, and writes for TruthOut, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Progressive, LA Weekly, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. He has been a reporter and documentary photographer for 18 years, shooting for many national publications. He has has exhibited his work nationally, and in Mexico, the UK and Germany.

Leslie Balog

Leslie Balog has lived the past 20 years in Cuba and worked at the island's international radio station. She has been arranging Cuba tours for Global Exchange since l993. She has also worked in the San Francisco Bay Area as an immigration and tenant's rights attorney. If you would like to plan a speaking event with Leslie, please call her at (415) 575-5530 or email her at leslie@globalexchange [dot] org

Anna Baltzer

Anna Baltzer is a 28-year-old Jewish American Columbia graduate, Fulbright scholar, and the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. She is a three-time volunteer with the International Women's Peace Service, where she documented human rights abuses in the West Bank and supported the nonviolent movement against the Occupation. She has spent most of the past few years in Palestine or on tour with her book, Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories. Anna Baltzer presents: LIFE IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE: EYEWITNESS STORIES & PHOTOS

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