Board of Directors:

Beth Schulman, President, is the Senior Strategist for Institutional Advancement at Public Campaign’s Every Voice Center. For over three decades, she has helped develop and nurture progressive policy and media organizations.

Pia Gallegos is a trial lawyer representing plaintiffs in discrimination, harassment, wrongful discharge, whistleblower and overtime class action cases. She also represents activist organizations in not-for-profit and issue advocacy law.

Robert McChesney, Presente! is the author of six books on media and politics, Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, host of the weekly talk show, Media Matters, on WILL-AM radio, and cofounder of the media reform organization Free Press.

Deborah Toler, a former Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), has worked in Africa and has written extensively about international trade and development issues.

Matthew Hoh is a disabled Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War and former Afghan War State Department Officer. In 2009, after being appointed to the Foreign Service, Hoh resigned his post in Afghanistan over the Obama administration’s escalation of the Afghan War. He is now an analyst and commentator on foreign and military policy issues as a senior fellow with the Eisenhower Media Network.

  • Japan Nuclear Disaster

    ARJUN MAKHIJANI Makhijani is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, which has just released a paper “Post-Tsunami Situation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan: Facts, Analysis, and Some Potential Outcome.” In addition to meltdowns, the paper highlights the problem of the storage pools, which could be even more dire.…

  • Threat of Nuclear Disaster in Japan

    AP is reporting: “Japan ordered thousands of residents near a northeastern nuclear power plant to evacuate today following a massive earthquake that caused a problem in the plant’s cooling system.” KEVIN KAMPS Kamps is a specialist in nuclear waste at Beyond Nuclear. Last year he was in Japan assessing the state of nuclear facilities there.…

  • Wisconsin Struggle: Now Come the Tractors

    The Wisconsin State Journal reports: “‘General Strike!’ Thousands Storm, Reoccupy Wisconsin Capitol in Response to Legislative Votes.” ROBERT KRAIG Kraig is executive director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin. He has been at the Capitol in Madison and is closely following developments. He said today: “[Gov. Scott] Walker has been claiming that this is about the…

  • Democracy and Saudi Arabia

    Increased protests are planned for Friday in Saudi Arabia. For a list of online resources that is being updated, see: accuracy.org/uprisings TOBY C. JONES Jones is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University and author of the book Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia. He said today: “The U.S. government…

  • Debate on Libya and Intervention

    ALI AHMIDA Available for a limited number of interviews, Ahmida is a leading analyst and historian of Libya. He said today: “Given Libya’s brutal colonial past under Italian fascism, foreign interference could be disastrous. Many Libyans will oppose it and it would revive Qaddafi’s dying dictatorship. Instead, other countries could recognize the new government in…

  • Obama “Institutionalizing” Guantánamo

    KAREN GREENBERG Greenberg is executive director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University Law School. She just wrote the piece “Guantánamo: No Closure for Obama,” which states: “In the nine years since the opening of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, the country has moved incrementally towards institutionalizing the existence of the…

  • Who is the Government Jailing? * Environmentalists * Whistleblowers * Peace Activists

    In response to the question: “Is it illegitimate for people to say that some of those CEOs on Wall Street should have gone to jail?” White House Chief of Staff William Daley said Sunday: “Well, I — look at, I don’t know if it’s illegitimate or not. People have a right to say what they…

  • Behind U.S.-Backed Bahrain Regime’s “Dialogue”

    Protests in Bahrain today took to the U.S. embassy with signs including “Stop Supporting Dictators.” For updates on the Bahrain uprising, see the #Feb14 hashtag on Twitter; for breakdown: accuracy.org/uprisings REEM KHALIFA Available for a limited number of interviews, Khalifa is senior editor for diplomatic affairs at Al Wasat in Bahrain. She said today: “The…

  • Environmentalist Faces 10 Years for Bids to Stop Drilling

    AP reports today: “Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher knew what he was doing when he made $1.8 million in false oil and gas drilling bids at a federal auction. He knew he couldn’t possibly pay for them. And he knew he could end up behind bars. “But he did it for the cause. On Thursday, a…

  • Prosecuting Manning for WikiLeaks: “Killing the Messenger”

    Glenn Greenwald writes today: “The U.S. Army yesterday announced that it has filed 22 additional charges against Bradley Manning, the Private accused of being the source for hundreds of thousands of documents (as well as [the video ‘Collateral Murder’]) published over the last year by WikiLeaks. Most of the charges add little to the ones…

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