Voices of Opposition
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Richard Becker is a West Coast coordinator of the International Action Center. In February 1994 he traveled to Iraq with Ramsey Clark on an IAC fact-finding delegation. Becker co-produced the video "Blockade: The Silent War Against Iraq" and contributed to The Children Are Dying. He helped set up the International Commission of Inquiry on Economic Sanctions, London, 1995. He is a regular commentator on KPFK-FM’s "Middle East in Focus" in Los Angeles.
Michel Chossudovsky is professor of economics, University of Ottawa. An earlier version of his contribution was presented at "The Other Face of the European Project, Alternative Forum to the European Summit," Madrid, 1995. His latest book, The Globalization of Poverty: Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms was published by Third World Network, Pinang, and Zed Books; it is available in the U.S. from St. Martin’s Press.
Ramsey Clark, U.S. Attorney General in the Johnson administration, is an international lawyer and human rights advocate. He has opposed U.S. military interventions in Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua, Libya, Somalia, Iraq, the Balkans, and many other countries. Clark initiated the International Peace for Cuba Appeal. He is lead counsel for Leonard Peltier, prominent Native American political prisoner. He has authored or contributed to many books, including Crime in America; The Children are Dying: the Impact of Sanctions on Iraq; The U.S. Invasion of Panama; and Metal of Dishonor—Depleted Uranium.
Heather Cottin has been a high-school teacher for 32 years. For 40 years she has been active in the civil rights, anti-war, and women’s movements, and supported the Chilean and Central American liberation struggles and the anti-apartheid movement. She is the widow of Sean Gervasi and mother of their 13-year-old daughter. She is a union activist and member of the Jewish-Serbian Friendship Society.
Thomas Deichmann is a free-lance journalist and researcher living in Frankfurt, Germany. His articles about the Yugoslav crisis have appeared in numerous European publications and he has become an internationally recognized specialist and critic of the Western media. In 1996 he appeared as an expert witness at the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the defense of Dusko Tadic. His email address is: Thomas.Deichmann@t-online.de.
Alvin Dorfman is an attorney and former Democratic Party State Committeeman (18th AD). A former member of the National Governing Council of the American Jewish Congress, he is president of the Holocaust Survivors Association and the Generation After, and board member and treasurer of the Central American Refugee Center on Long Island. He was president of Long Island’s Coordinating Committee for Civil Rights and the Committee in Support of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Gregory Elich is a political activist and independent researcher who has published over two dozen articles on the Balkans and Southeast Asia. He works as a database administrator and is a Serbian-American.
Sara Flounders is a co-coordinator of the International Action Center. She has organized opposition to the U.S. use of military force and economic sanctions in Bosnia, Panama, Somalia, and Iraq. She is the organizer of the IAC's Depleted Uranium Project and East Coast coordinator of the Anti-Sanctions Project. She frequently speaks to campus and community organizations.
Lenora Foerstel has been North American Coordinator of Women for Mutual Security since 1990 and is on the board of the Women’s Strike for Peace. She is a cultural historian and has written numerous articles, produced films, and recently edited a book entitled Creating Surplus Population: The Effect of Military and Corporate Policies on Indigenous Peoples.
Sean Gervasi was an economist, political analyst, and activist. He taught at Cambridge, Oxford, the London School of Economics, the University of Paris, and Brooklyn College. He helped start the British anti-Vietnam war movement. He worked at the United Nations with Sean McBride in the Committee Against Apartheid and the Commission on Namibia. He worked in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Zambia, and with the liberation movements of Angola and South Africa. Forced out of the UN during the Reagan era, he began to investigate the destabilization of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. He died in 1996 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, while working to expose U.S.-German-NATO plans to recolonize the region.
Barry Lituchy teaches modern European history at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY. He has written numerous articles on the Yugoslav crisis and has appeared as a commentator on a number of TV and radio programs. In 1995 he filmed interviews with refugees from the Krajina and Serbian political figures during the NATO bombings. In October 1997 he organized, along with Bernard Klein, the First International Conference and Exhibition on the Jasenovac Concentration Camp at Kingsborough.
Sam Marcy is a Marxist theoretician, organizer, and former trade unionist who has contributed his talents to the socialist and workers’ movement since the 1920s. Since 1959, he has been a regular contributor to Workers World newspaper. Marcy has written extensively on the problems of the socialist countries, including the pamphlet Imperialist Intrigue in the Breakup of Yugoslavia. Among his books are Perestroika: a Marxist Critique and High Tech, Low Pay. His writings have been translated into several languages.
Nadja Tesich, filmmaker, novelist, and playwright, was born in Yugoslavia and has returned regularly for the past 30 years. She made even more frequent visits in the last six years. She has incorporated her own eyewitness observations with those of many other European journalists with her on her trips. She speaks all the languages of the area as well as French, Russian, and English. Her new novel Native Land is to appear soon.
Gary Wilson is a journalist and researcher who has written extensively on the breakup of Yugoslavia. His articles appear regularly in the New York-based weekly Workers World newspaper and have been reprinted in newspapers in Europe and Asia.
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