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Former New Leftist Andrew Stern is the current President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the second largest labor union in North America. The economic model championed by Stern and SEIU includes universal health care, increased taxation, an expansion of social welfare programs, and [...]
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Established in 1940 by Saul Alinsky, the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) is a Chicago-based community-organizing network consisting of 59 affiliate groups located in 21 U.S. states as well as Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
IAF’s mission is to “build organizations whose primary purpose is power — the [...]
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Born in Boston, Massachusetts in December 1954, Harold Hongju Koh is an attorney of Korean-American heritage…. In 2009 President Barack Obama nominated him to be the Legal Advisor to the U.S. State Department.
Koh is an advocate of transnationalism, a concept that argues in favor of “global [...]
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Cornel West is a Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University…. He is a longtime member of the Democratic Socialists of America, for which he currently serves as Honorary Chair. He is also a co-chair of Michael Lerner’s Tikkun Community.
West was born [...]
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Based in Washington, DC, the 3.1 million-member National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the United States. It represents public school teachers and support personnel; faculty and staffers in colleges and universities; retired educators; and college students preparing to become teachers….
In a [...]
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In the 1960s Michael Klonsky, while attending San Fernando Valley State College, joined the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In 1968 he became SDS’s national chairman. That same year, he helped spark the riots that erupted in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. Klonsky was also a member of the [...]
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Born in 1958, Anita Dunn began her political career in the late 1970s as an intern for Gerald Rafshoon, President Jimmy Carter’s White House communications director. She then worked for Carter’s chief of staff Hamilton Jordan. In 1993 Dunn co-founded the Washington, DC-based political consulting firm, Squier Knapp Dunn [...]
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In January 2009 President Obama appointed Samantha Power to serve as Director for Multilateral Affairs in the National Security Council. Power has become one of Obama’s closest advisors on foreign policy.
Power has a long record of antipathy toward Israel. In 2001 she attended the United Nations’ [...]
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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (also known as Ashraf Refaat Nabith Henin, Khalid Adbul Wadood, Salem Ali, Abdul Majid, Abdullah al-Fak’asi al-Ghamdior, Fahd Bin Adballah Bin Khalid, and 27 other aliases) is the military head of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network. Mohammed has [...]
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Established in early 2009, Health Care for America Now (HCAN) describes itself as a “national grassroots campaign of more than 1,000 organizations in 46 states representing 30 million people” who believe that “[o]ur government’s responsibility is to guarantee [...]