Khalil Bendib is the janitor -- or minesweeper -- of political cartooning in America. Potentially explosive issues avoided by other cartoonists, such as racial injustice, labor and class struggles, U.S. imperialism, environmental degradation, the scapegoating of Muslims and Arabs and the complicity of our Orwellian media are all grist to his mill. Where others see sacred cows, Mr. Bendib sees the potential for shish kebab.

Shannon Biggs is the director of the Community Rights program at Global Exchange. She recently co-authored two books, Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots (PoliPoint Press), and The Rights of Nature: The Case for a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, a project of Council of Canadians, Global Exchange, and Fundacion Pachamama.

Andrea Buffa is nationally recognized anti-war and media activist. As the executive director of Media Alliance from 1997 to 2001, she was a leader in the campaign to take back the Pacifica Radio Network from corporate hijackers, and organized a national mobilization against the National Association of Broadcasters, a lobbying group for the corporate media, when it met in San Francisco.

Xiomara Castro is a Salvadoran-American who has been involved in the social change movement from a very young age, initially fighting to end the U.S. military intervention in El Salvador and later working for immigrant and farm workers' rights in the U.S. She has worked as a farm worker union organizer in the Northwest, aiding refugees in gaining healthcare and legal services in the Southwest, and most recently engaging youth around the country as a grassroots educator in California and along the US/Mexico Border.