CSN Advisory Council

Medea Benjamin

Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of Global Exchange (www.globalexchange.org), an organization that aims to strengthen people-to-people ties between First and Third World citizens.

Larry Birns

Larry Birns is the president of the Council on Hemishperic Affairs (www.coha.org), a research organization that "encourages the formulation of rational and constructive U.S. policies towards Latin America."

Blasé Bonpane

Blasé Bonpane is the director of the Office of the Americas (www.officeoftheamericas.org). Bonpane served as a Maryknoll father in Central America and was called "the most underrated humanist of the decade" by the L.A. Weekly.

Fr. Roy Bourgeois

Fr. Roy Bourgeois is a Maryknoll priest, and the founder of School of the Americas Watch (www.soaw.org), an organization which works to close the U.S. Army's School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia.
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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky, the Institute Professor of linguistics at MIT, is a committed activist who has written on the subjects of media control, propaganda and U.S. foreign policy, among other subjects. For some of Chomsky's work, visit the Noam Chomsky Archive.

Pamela Costain

Pam Costain is Executive Director of the Resource Center of the Americas (www.americas.org), which serves to educate North Americans about Latin America through diverse programs.

Kristin Dawkins

Kristin Dawkins is Program Director of the Trade & Agriculture Program at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (www.iatp.org/tradeag). She has written extensively on the impact of biotechnology and genetic engineering on society.

Reverend John Dear

Reverend John Dear is a Jesuit priest who directs the Fellowship of Reconciliation (www.forusa.org), which works for domestic and international peace and justice, nonviolent alternatives to conflict, and the rights of conscience.

Kathleen Falk

Kathleen Falk is the Dane County (Wisconsin) Executive. See her home page.

Dr. Daniel Gómez-Ibáñez

Dr. Daniel Gómez-Ibáñez is Executive Director, International Committee for the Peace Council (www.peacecouncil.org).

Thomas Gumbleton

Rev. Thomas Gumbleton is the bishop of Detroit, and has worked for many years for human rights in Latin America.

Edward S. Herman

Edward S. Herman is Professor Emeritus of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, and a prolific writer on the issues of globalization, corporate power, and media studies.

Doug La Follette

Doug La Follette is Secretary of State of Wisconsin, and an environmental activist.

Robert McChesney

Robert McChesney is Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and has written extensively on the history of the mass media.

Gail Phares

Gail Phares is the founder of Witness for Peace (www.witnessforpeace.org), a faith-based organization which aims to change destructive U.S. policies toward Latin America.

Mark Pocan

Mark Pocan is a Wisconsin State Representative representing Madison, WI. See his home page.

Mark Sherman

A consultant to americas.org who does their website.

Tony Vento

Tony Vento is coordinator of the Cleveland Inter-religious Task Force on Central America.

Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn is Professor Emeritus of History at Boston University. He is a prolific writer, on such subjects as the history of the labor and civil rights movements, and his People's History of the United States has sold over 400,000 copies.

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