US foreign policy
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Bill Fletcher Jr, billfletcherjr@gmail.com, is available to address US foreign policy, electoral politics, labor and workers’ movements, and right-wing populism. He is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator. “Bill Fletcher Jr has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard,…
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Horace Campbell, hgcampbe@syr.edu, is available to speak on issues of peace and reconstruction in the 21st century, including reparations and reparative claims; US militarism; US wars against liberation movements (especially in Africa); the lies of the Cold War. Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University, he is a noted international peace…
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Phyllis Bennis, pbennis@ips-dc.org, is available to speak on Palestine-Israel US policy in the Middle East Including Yemen war, Syria, Gulf monarchies, Arab Spring, US-Iran conflict, US-UN relations. She is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, where she directs the New Internationalism Project, and is a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She…
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Medea Benjamin, medea@codepink.org, is available to speak on resisting US militarism and interventions. She is a co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years. Described as “one of America’s most committed—and most effective—fighters for human…
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Alexander Aviña, alexander.avina@asu.edu, is available to speak on immigration, US–Latin America relations. He is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University. He researches social movements and state violence in 20th century Mexico, and his current research project explores the links between the political economy of narcotics, drug wars, and state violence in 1960s…