"Stand Up Rise Up" Speakers List


Tape 1:
Rev. Graylan Hagler Plymouth Congregational Church Washington, D.C.
Richie Havens Singer, Songwriter
Mike Marqusee British Stop the War Coalition
Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood
Rev. Dr. Major Lewis Jemison President Progressive National Baptist Convention
Rabbi Sheila Weinberg Jewish Community of Amherst, MA
Rev. Raymond Rivera President Latino Pastoral Action Center
Chief Arvol Looking Horse 19th Generation Pipe Carrier of the Lakota People
Congresswoman Nydia Velasquez New York 12th District
Susan Sarandon Actress
Derrill Bodley Founding Member Families for Peaceful Tommorrows
Julian Bond Chairman of the Board NAACP
Ghanim Khalil Former Army National Guard Reservist
Steve Sharieff Iraq House of Buffalo
Phyllis Bennis Institute for Policy Studies
Charles Barron New York City Council
Suheir Hammad Def Poetry Jam
Rabab Abdulhadi New York University
Amit Mashiah Israeli Refusenik
Rev. Al Sharpton National Action Network
Dennis Kucinich Progressive Presidential Candidate
Sheila Jackson Lee 18th Congressional District of Texas
Maher El Jamal Arab American Muslim Federation
Martin Luther King lll Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Pete Seeger Musician
Rev. Graylan Hagler Plymouth Congregational Church Washington D.C.
Dennis Rivera Service Employees International Union
Rod Driver Former Congressional Candidate
Chief Arvol 19th Generation Pipe Carrier of the Lakota People
Richie Perez National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights
Ossie Davis Actor
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Anglican Church, South Africa
Leslie Cagan United for Peace and Justice
Holly Near Singer
Ruth Messinger American Jewish World Service
Harry Belafonte Singer, Songwriter
Larry Cohen Executive Vice President America AFL-CIO
Donna Lieberman NY Civil Liberties Union
Sarah Jones Playwright
Nilda Medina Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques
Eli Pariser Move On
Tahmena Faryal Foreign Committee of Rawa
Betty A capella Group
Rania Masri Institute for Southern Studies
Tony Kushner Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright
Angela Davis Professor of History of Consciousness,

University of California, Santa Cruz


Tape 2


Danny Glover Actor
Nancy Lessin Parent of Marine
Medea Benjamin Founding Director, Global Exchange
Nadja Daniels Uptown Peace and Justice Coalition
Piedad Cordoba Colombian Legislator
Kim Gandy National Organization for Women
Saul Williams Poet
Phyllis Bennis Middle East Expert, Institute for Policy Studies
Serena Cruz County Commissioner, Multnomah County, OR
Namita Chad Desis Rising Up and Moving
Elizabeth Horton Sheff Connecticut Green Party
Anthony Arnove Editor, Iraq Under Siege
Humberto Brown Black Radical Congress
Marian Yalini Thambynayagam South Asian Gay and Lesbian Alliance of NY
David Rovics and Allan Rosenblatt Singers
Zara Khan Undergraduate Student Government Hunter College
Jamie Vasquez Veterans for Peace
Brenda Stokeley NYC Labor Against the War
Ramzi Arab Folk Dancer
Larry Holmes ANSWER Representative
Dayo Gore People of Color Against the War
Maya Sen Not in Our Name Organizer
Miles Solay Not in Our Name
Leslie Cagan United for Peace and Justice
Welfare Poets Welfare Poets