A leading organizer in the Chinese student democracy movement, he is among forty-nine individuals blacklisted by the Beijing government. As research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and President of The Foundation For China In The 21st Century, he continues to provide a forceful and unique perspective on this historic struggle. Jianli Yang, returned to his adopted home in 2007 in the United States after five years in Chinese prisons.

As founder of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, he has collected thousands of panels representing individual lives lost to the disease. Jones offers an eye-opening and heart-felt presentation on how this epidemic impacts victims' friends, families and communities across America and around the world. His autobiography is Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an Activist.
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Head of the National Labor Committee, Charles Kernaghan has brought the issue of sweatshop abuses and child labor to the American people. He has traveled the world to expose worker and human rights abuses by corporate giants like Wal-Mart, GAP, Disney and Sean John. Kernaghan and his organization have helped shape the debate over outsourcing, calling for enforceable laws to protect women’s and workers’ rights and to end the “race to the bottom” in the global economy.

Anna Rosmus triggered a firestorm of controversy in her German hometown by writing about the role it played under the Nazi regime; her story has been told in the film The Nasty Girl, as well as in her “60 Minutes” interview. She is committed to combating the neo-Nazi movement and extreme right in Germany. She has received numerous awards for her efforts.

In the debate about guest workers and border fences, we often forget the human side of the story. Enrique Morones is determined to help us all remember. He is the founder of Border Angels, a humanitarian organization which provides support and relief to migrant workers on the US-Mexican border. He wants Americans to know the truth about the people behind the immigration policy debates, both migrants and the vigilante Minutemen.

Author of Death at an Early Age, Mr. Kozol is a respected critic of the American education system. With Illiterate America he examined the issue of adult illiteracy, and Rachel and Her Children was a bitterly eloquent look at homelessness in America. Other books include Children of the Revolution and The Night is Dark and I Am Far From Home, Savage Inequities and Amazing Grace. His newest book, Ordinary Resurrections is a chronicle of the words and thoughts of schoolchildren from the South Bronx.

How does a child who was both a victim and survivor of the Cambodian genocide grow to become an internationally recognized human rights leader? A founder of Children of War, an international youth leadership organization for building community, activism and healing for teenagers, Pond opens our eyes and hearts, and helps us to heal.
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Powerful and touching! A voice for countless Afghan families, Farooka shares her experiences of escape and loss and helps us to understand life under totalitarian rule. Her critically acclaimed book, Searching for Saleem: An Afghan Woman's Odyssey, was applauded as the first English language memoir by an Afghan woman.

Finding your liberties and conscience under attack? Attorney, activist and a founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Silverglate addresses the issues that profoundly affect us all: freedom of conscience, academic freedom, civil liberties, freedom in cyberspace, and individual rights.

Most Americans believe hard work entitles us to financial security. Ground breaking author, attorney and organizer Beth Shulman goes beyond the statistics to reveal the real life stories of America's working poor. Her new book, The Betrayal of Work: How Low Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and Their Families, has received tremendous recognition and applause.

Historian, activist, and author of A People's History of the United States, Zinn has been a leader in the civil rights, anti-war and social justice movements for decades. Having spent his life speaking truth to power, Zinn says "I would argue that dissent is the highest form of patriotism."

Mickum is a lawyer who represents some of the Guantanamo detainees and has worked successfully to release some of them. He works pro bono through the Center for Constitutional Rights, and is very eloquent about the constitutional and human rights principles involved. He works very hard to show a different perspective in these cases.