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.

  • Undebatable: What Harris and Trump Could Not Say About Israel and Gaza

    “What Kamala Harris and Donald Trump said about Israel and Gaza in their debate was predictable. Even more certain was what they absolutely would not say — with silences speaking loudest of all.”

  • Antidote for Trump-Harris Debate Rhetoric: Reality from Doctor Back from Gaza

    “Former President Donald Trump, with his typical level of restraint, recently stated that Israel will cease to exist if Vice President Kamala Harris is elected President in November. The real question is whether the Palestinians of Gaza will survive under either a Trump or Harris presidency.”

  • How Many Civilians Did “Mass Hannibal” Directive Kill?

    The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports in “Israeli forces accused of killing their own citizens under the ‘Hannibal Directive’ during October 7 chaos,” that the “Israeli military is coming under increasing pressure to reveal just how many of their own citizens were killed by Israeli soldiers, pilots and police in the confusion of the Hamas attack…

  • Israeli Army Kills U.S. Citizen During Demonstration in Beita, Nablus

    “This is just another example of the decades of impunity granted to the Israeli government and army, bolstered by the support of the U.S. and European governments, who are complicit in enabling genocide in Gaza.”

  • Expanded Child Tax Credit in the 2024 Election

    Study after study has demonstrated that providing parents with a guaranteed basic income both helps them and pulls children out of poverty. Yet an expanded Child Tax Credit, which removed millions of children from poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic, has not been restored since Congress allowed it to expire at the end of 2021. The…

  • Gaza Protests and Repression on Campuses

    “Bans on encampments, temporary structures, amplified sound, chalking, freestanding signs, flyering, outdoor displays, and event tables are among the measures introduced to curtail political expression. …

  • Israel Lays Siege to Jenin Hospitals and Water Networks

    “For nearly a week, the Israeli military has been laying siege to hospitals in Jenin and other cities in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, severely restricting access to medical care, targeting medical workers and ambulances, and cutting off water and electricity, as part of a massive military offensive in the occupied West…

  • Israeli Attacks on Village Witnessed by Americans, Part of Ethnic Cleansing Plan

    “Israeli settlers shot a young man in the back in cold blood, beat an American citizen on the back of his head and threw stones at two others, hitting them in the forehead and hand, causing injury.”

  • Moms for Liberty National Summit

    Moms for Liberty is holding a national summit in Washington, D.C. through Sept. 1. Events include a “March for Kids.” The summit includes a “fireside chat” with Donald Trump. 

  • Israel Aiming to “Ethnically Cleanse” West Bank

    “They are trying to repeat the Nakba. They are trying to repeat the ethnic cleansing that took place in 1948.”

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