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• Kai Wright is a Brooklyn writer and editor and senior writer for TheRoot.com. Kai is the author of “Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York” (Beacon Press). His most recent writing includes The Nation article, “More Mortgage Madness.” Last June, Kai also wrote, “Mortgage Industry Bankrupts Black America,” for The Nation.
• Karen J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law (http://www.lawandsecurity.org/) and the editor of “The Torture Debate in America” (Cambridge) and (with Joshua Dratel) “The Torture Papers” (Cambridge). Karen’s recent articles include, “Kiss the Era of Human Rights Goodbye: What Bush Willed to Obama and the World.”
• Richard Wilkinson is professor emeritus of social epidemiology, at University of Nottingham Medical School and author of the book “The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better,” co-authored with Kate Pickett.
• British journalist and historian Andy Worthington is the author of the book, “The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison,” the first book to tell the stories of all the detainees in America’s illegal prison. Andy’s recent articles include, “Dictatorial Powers Unchallenged As US ‘Enemy Combatant’ Pleads Guilty,” “Normal service is resumed; the quest for accountability and justice continues,” and “Even In Cheney’s Bleak World, The Al-Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low.”
• activist Kathy Kelly is the author of, “Other Lands Have Dreams: from Baghdad to Pekin prison” (Counterpunch/AK Press). Kathy helped initiate Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the ‘between war’ UN/US sanctions against Iraq. This included personally traveling on 24 of Voices 70 delegations to visit Iraq between 1996 and the beginning of the invasion and current occupation. Kathy stayed with the team in Baghdad throughout the first year of the war, maintaining a household in Baghdad. Most recently, she and three companions from Voices were in Beirut, Lebanon during the final days of the Israel-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006. In 2007, she spent five months in Amman, Jordan, living amongst Iraqis who’ve fled their homes and are seeking resettlement. Kathy’s activist career goes back to 1988 when she was sentenced to one year in prison for planting corn on a nuclear missile silo sites; being camped at the Iraq-Saudi border during the first Gulf War; served three months at Pekin federal prison for protesting against the School of the Americas; as well as activism in both Haiti and Bosnia. Kathy currently helps coordinate Chicago’s Voices for Creative Nonviolence campaign.

Irregular correspondent Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. And Kevan Harris, ‘The Radical Pessimist,’ returned