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Retired Army Col. Ann Wright on War, Peace and Dissentnew

Wright joined the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State in 1987, and left in protest the day before the invasion of Iraq. Since then, Wright has been a leading antiwar activist and has now co-authored Dissent: Voices of Conscience.
INDY Week  |  Bob Geary  |  05-15-2008  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Iraq, WAR, military, activism, peace, dissent, Dissent: Voices of Conscience, Susan Dixon and Ann Wright

Jim Hightower on Activism and Obamanew

"The significant thing about the Obama phenomenon isn't Obama but the phenomenon -- the fact that we've got millions of people, including a whole bunch of young folks and people who haven't been voting in the past, who believe that change really is possible. And not because of him."
INDY Week  |  Bob Geary  |  04-17-2008  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Jim Hightower with Susan DeMarco, Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow

Paul Krugman on American Inequalitynew

The Conscience of a Liberal is an indictment of "movement conservatives" -- going back to such seminal figures as William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan -- who've ushered in a second Gilded Age of economic inequality in America.
INDY Week  |  Bob Geary  |  11-16-2007  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Paul Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal

Real Men Wear Pinknew

Founder of Code Pink Medea Benjamin says it's time to start planning to stop the next war, and to build a sustainable economy without oil.
INDY Week  |  Bob Geary  |  06-30-2005  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: medea benjamin, Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism

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