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Antonia Juhasz is a policy-analyst, author and activist living in San Francisco.

She is a Fellow at Oil Change International and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. She has taught at the New College of California in the Activism and Social Change Masters Program. She is a guest lecturer on U.S. Foreign Policy at the McMaster University Labour Studies program in a unique educational program with the Canadian Automobile Workers Union.

Juhasz was the Project Director of the International Forum on Globalization - an alliance of 80 leading international scholars, economists, researchers, writers and activists representing over 60 organizations in 25 countries to provide real-life alternatives to corporate-led globalization. 

Juhasz worked as a Legislative Assistant for Trade Policy and other issues in Washington, DC for two U.S. Members of Congress – John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD).

Her many articles and opinion pieces have appeared in publications from the New York Times to Cambridge University Review of International Relations Journal to The Daily Mirror - Zimbabwe to TomPaine.com.

Juhasz has conducted lectures across the US and around the world and has been a frequent media commentator for television, radio, print and on-line media, including: Fox Television National News Business Hour with Neil P. Cavuto, Fox Television’s Hannity and Colmes, C-Span’s Washington Journal, the Cable News Television Network, National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation, To The Point, and Marketplace, Bloomberg News, WBAI’s Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny, KUOW’s Weekday with Steven Scher, CBS News Radio, and Air America Radio, among dozens of others. 

Juhasz is author of The Bu$h Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time (HarperCollins, April, 2006). 

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Larry Everest has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 20 years for Revolution newspaper and other publications. He traveled to Iran in 1979 and again in 1980, shortly after the revolution that toppled the Shah. During both visits, he traveled to Iranian Kurdistan, and in 1980 was able to interview Islamic militants then holding the U.S. Embassy.

In 1986 Everest wrote Behind the Poison Cloud: Union Carbide's Bhopal Massacre, based on his on-the-scene investigation in Bhopal, India shortly after the gas disaster. In 1988 he traveled to Palestine to cover the Palestinian people’s first intifada. In 1991, shortly after the end of the Persian Gulf War, Everest went to Iraq to document the impact of the war on the Iraqi people and filmed the award-winning video Iraq: War Against the People.

Everest’s articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, the Oakland Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, New York Newsday, Z Magazine, and other publications. He has also done radio commentary and analysis on KPFA’s Flashpoints in Berkeley, California.

Everest is the author of Oil, Power, and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda (Common Courage Press, January 2003).

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Robert M. Gould, MD, has been an Associate Pathologist at Kaiser Hospital in San Jose since 1981. Since 1989, he has been President of the SF Bay Area Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), representing approximately 2,000 local physicians and health providers, and in 2003 was President of National PSR, currently comprised of approximately 30,000 members.

PSR is committed to the elimination of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, the achievement of a sustainable environment, and the reduction of violence and its causes. PSR's historic efforts to educate the public about the dangers of nuclear war grew into an international movement with the founding of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), with whom PSR shared the Nobel Peace Price awarded to IPPNW in 1985.

Dr. Gould has wide-ranging expertise on a variety of public health issues including those related to various aspects of “security” issues as well as a broad array of environmental health concerns.  He recently co-authored a successful resolution with the American Public Health Association that calls on the U.S. Government to, among other things, "clearly state that it will not launch a preemptive military attack on Iranian facilities and explicitly rule out any possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran."

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At the time this movie was made, Mitchell Plitnick was the Director of Education and Policy at Jewish Voice for Peace.

He is a widely published and respected policy analyst. Born in New York City, raised an Orthodox Jew and educated in Yeshiva, Mitchell grew up in an extremist environment that passionately supported the radical Israeli settler movement. Plitnick regularly speaks all over the country on current issues. His writing has appeared in the Jordan Times, Israel Insider, UN Observer, Middle East Report, Global Dialogue, San Francisco Chronicle, Die Blaetter Fuer Deutsche Und Internationale Politik, Outlook, and in a regular column for a time in Tikkun Magazine. He has been interviewed by various outlets including PBS News Hour, the O’Reilly Factor and CNBC Asia. Plitnick graduated with honors from UC Berkeley in Middle Eastern Studies and wrote his thesis on Israeli and Jewish historiography.

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Jim Haber is the local coordinator for War Resistors League-West based in San Francisco and sits on WRL's national committee representing the WRL Organizing Network. He is on the steering committee of United for Peace and Justice-Bay Area. Jim is also an active member of Jewish Voice for Peace and spent 21 years as a core group member at a San Francisco soup kitchen in the tradition of Dorothy Day.

You could say he is a Jewish, Wiccan Catholic Worker though he is very committed to the secular purpose and history of WRL.  Jim also volunteers as a counselor with the GI Rights Hotline, facilitates nonviolence trainings and workshops, and works with different groups against military recruitment. 

Majid Baradar is an Iranian-American who moved to the United States 35 years ago.  He has spent his career as a professional Civil and Earthquake engineering consultant and authored several books on the subject. 

He now spends his time as a "Social Entrepreneur" for 12Petals Media Group. This entity strives to be a union of creators and social entrepreneurs of media and visual arts for promoting universal declaration of human rights, and endeavors to enhance its impact on all cultures. He believes media projects can offer unique and socially penetrating ways to view the world around us.

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David Glick is a psychotherapist in Fairfax, CA.  He is active with Health Care for All - California.

Shahab is an Iranian-American and a member of Hands Off Iran.

Sahar Driver, the narrator and script adviser for this film, is a doctoral student in a Social and Cultural Anthropology Program. Her education is based on postcolonial, Marxist and feminist frameworks that examine development, imperialism, nation-making, diaspora, social movements and the production of knowledge and power as they intersect with issues of gender, race, class, sexual identity, religion and political identification.

Her research, throughout the course of her studies, has sought to understand the intersections of state violence, and formations of structural injustice. Her current research focus relates to issues of gender, identity and resistance in Iran.

Building on rigorous education in participatory research and practices in feminist ethnography, policy research and cross-cultural alliance-building, Sahar’s work is oriented around issues of justice advocacy. She has committed her work to social action in ways that are participatory and relevant to the communities of concern. 

Sahar is currently the Participatory and Cross-cultural Alliance Planning Director for 12Petals Media Group.

She is an Iranian-American and a member of Hands Off Iran.