Dear President-elect Obama
The Daily Star (Beyrouth) / January 12, 2009
Open Letter
Editor’s note: The following is a letter addressed to US President-elect Barack
Obama calling for the United States
to change its policies vis-à-vis the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, especially
in light of Israel ‘s
current onslaught against the Gaza Strip. It was signed by more than 900
academics, most of them based in the
United States , and made available
to The Daily Star by the campaign’s organizers.
Once, in what was perhaps an unguarded moment, you stated that: “Nobody’s suffering
more than the Palestinian people”. After days of relentless Israeli
bombing in the Gaza strip that has already killed over seven hundred people,
most of them civilians or policemen, and injured over three thousand, many of
whom may yet die for lack of medical supplies and facilities, your words have
never rung more true. And yet, so far, your signal response to this latest
assault on the Palestinians, that the UN Secretary General diplomatically calls
“disproportionate”, has been to defend Israel’s right to respond to
rocket attacks that, while rightly condemned, are mere pinpricks in comparison
to the horrific consequences of Israeli bombardment and of the ongoing blockade
on Gaza.
Does this mean that on the long way to the White House you have trimmed your sails
and, for the sake of securing the power you will soon assume, fear now to speak
truth to power? Does this mean that, unlike Dr. King, your sense of justice is
adjustable for the sake of political expedience? Those who supported you from
the early days of your primary campaign did so not on account of your response
to economic crisis, but because they believed in your sense of justice and your
commitment to put an end to business-as-usual in Washington, and because they
believed in your genuine desire to shape a new and different world order.
In 1981, while you were an undergraduate at Occidental
College , you were among the first of a
courageous group of students and faculty who, while the cause was still
unpopular or unheard of, spoke out for divestment from the apartheid regime in
South Africa .
You knew then that it was imperative to place pressure on a racist regime which
shamefully oppressed a black and coloured population that was discriminated
against, subject to pass laws and control of its every movement, parceled into
Bantustans , and subject to detention, torture and extra-judicial
execution. When the black population protested, like the school children of
Soweto , they could be
summarily shot down by police or army. The ANC, under Nelson Mandela, was
proscribed as a terrorist movement, its leaders were imprisoned, tortured or
killed, its guerillas faced the overwhelming power of the South African army,
equipped and trained in part by the
United States and its European
allies. A regime that was so unafraid to use violence in the defense of its
discriminatory and racist regime, and so unashamed to do so in the face of
international condemnation, could only understand the language of force. The
divestment movement in which you so actively participated understood that the euphemistically
and cynically named policy of “constructive engagement” was a moral
and practical failure and that only the non-violent force of a financial
boycott on the South African regime had any hope of bringing an end to
apartheid without an horrific bloodbath.
Public figures as diverse as Bishop Desmond Tutu and President Jimmy Carter have
recognized that Israel too maintains an apartheid regime, in practice
if not in name. South Africa ,
now a functioning multi-racial democracy, was a white state for a white
people. Israel
is a Jewish state for a Jewish people. Its non-Jewish, mostly Palestinian Arab
citizens are discriminated against in numerous ways, economically and civilly.
The dispossessed and ethnically cleansed Palestinian populations, dispersed in
the diaspora and in the refugee camps of Gaza ,
the West Bank and Lebanon ,
are denied the internationally recognized right of return. They have had their
lands and homes taken from them by armed and “legal” force, are
subject to collective punishment, prolonged states of siege, the absolute and
deliberately destructive control of their daily movements. Where South Africa
instituted the pass laws, the checkpoints that have proliferated all over the
West Bank and at the exits from Gaza prevent students from reaching their
schools and hospitals, workers from reaching their places or work, keep farmers
from their fields, the sick from the few hospitals that survive to serve them. The
illegal settlements, that in contravention of all international laws regarding
occupation have proliferated across the West Bank, are designed to be permanent
“facts on the ground” and have divided recognized Palestinian territory
into segmented islets, into besieged Bantustans ,
with the intent of preventing a contiguous Palestinian state. A so-called
security wall, illegally built, as even the Israeli Supreme Court recognized,
on Palestinian territory, has cut farmers from their lands and turned formerly
prosperous villages into isolated prisons. Regular Israeli military incursions
into Palestinian cities and refugee camps, and bombings from the air, have
killed innumerable civilians, many of them children. Since the election of
Hamas, in fair and open elections, Israel has subjected the civilian population
of Gaza to a prolonged state of siege, designed to suffocate them into submission,
depriving them at will of water and power, medical supplies and food, and of
access to the outside world. The most recent, all-out assault on Gaza, the
disproportionate and bloody use of excessive force, is no act of self-defense,
but the dramatic extension of an insidious policy of extermination of a people
that refuses to disappear.
Every one of these acts is a crime against humanity. In their ensemble, they constitute
one of the most massive, ethnocidal atrocities of modern times.
Almost alone among nations, Israel
acts in flagrant violation of international law and UN resolutions and does so
with impunity. That it can do so is in large part the consequence of the
uncritical support offered to Israel
by a succession of American administrations. Without the military and economic
aid of the United States ,
which amounts to more than a third of all US
foreign aid, Israel could
not have mounted its violent offensives against the Palestinians or
Lebanon , could not maintain its security
apparatus, could not afford the illegal settlements that seek to expand
Israel into what
remains of Palestinian territory. The United
States has supplied the F-16s that are bombarding the
Palestinians, their schools, police stations and mosques, and the cluster bombs
that continue to kill and maim children and farmers in southern
Lebanon .
America continues to support Israel to the tune of billions every year at the
expense of US taxpayers and at the expense of its moral standing in the world.
You will continue to do so, according to your own web page, because “our first
and incontrovertible commitment in the Middle East must be to the security
of Israel ,
America ‘s
strongest ally in the region.” You and your Vice-President, Joe Biden, not
only “defend and support the annual foreign aid package that involves both
military and economic assistance to
Israel “, but moreover
“have advocated increased foreign aid budgets to ensure that these funding
priorities are met.” In doing so, you lend your support, in the name of the
United States, to a regime no less criminal in its acts and in its policies
towards its own minority population and its dispossessed Palestinian neighbors
than South Africa was in the 1980s. Then, it was argued, South Africa was our
strongest ally in the region, a bulwark in the war against communism, a crucial
supplier of uranium and other minerals, a prosperous Western-style democracy,
if not the only democracy on the continent. To bring down the South African
apartheid regime, it was argued, would be to create chaos in southern
Africa , unleash a bloodbath in which whites and blacks
alike would suffer, and pave the way for a communist or dictatorial
postcolonial regime. The divestment movement, a non-violent coalition of
students and academics, union members and churches, came together in the spirit
of the Civil Rights movement to challenge those
self-serving assumptions. It changed the direction of US foreign policy, disgracing
its support of a racist regime, and placed effective pressure on
the apartheid regime to begin serious negotiations with the ANC. Through a combination
of diplomacy and divestment, we did end apartheid, making way
for a functioning multi-racial democracy that confronts its challenges, indeed,
but has not dissolved into chaos or tyranny.
It is time for the United States
to place a similar pressure on Israel .
That Israel has been
America ‘s beneficiary, unchallenged in its war
crimes and in its acts of terror, uncontested for its racist civil constitution
and illegal occupations, has not been to the
United States ‘ advantage. On the contrary,
such unquestioning support of Israel
has fuelled the legitimate anger of the Islamic world, supplied the
justification for terrorism, and continually tarnished the
United States ‘
reputation among the democracies of the world. That the
United States has stood so often alone in
defending Israel
before the court of world opinion in the United Nations is not a sign of its
virtue, but of the obstinacy and arrogance of its stance. But it is not for the
sake of the reputation or advantage of the United
States that you should take a new path in relation to
Israel . It is
in the name of justice. It is not just to support the territorial ambitions,
realized settlement by settlement, of a Zionist minority in the region. It is
not just to continue to supply Israel
with the most advanced weapons and the most deadly arms in order that it may
murder civilians, children and policemen. It is not just that we should support
Israel with all our diplomatic
force and financial aid, while leaving
Israel ‘s victims to die slowly for
lack of food, medicine, water and power. It is not just that we should
sacrifice a dispossessed people for the security of a state that discriminates
and expropriates, continually and violently ignores UN resolutions and
international appeals, collectively punishes those whose right to resist
occupation is recognized in international law.
There is no road to peace through such injustice. It may be that the compromise
in the end will be the establishment and security of two separate states.
Almost certainly, the only hope of a lasting solution is a single state in
Israel/Palestine, committed to the civil and human rights of all peoples within
its boundaries, irrespective of religion or ethnicity. That is, after all, the
standard to which we hold all other states in the world,
Israel alone
excepted. But no solution at all will be possible until we hold
Israel
accountable for its criminal violence and its illegal acts, until we cease to
supply it with the means to pursue a course of domination and expansion, with
arms and warplanes, with finance and diplomatic support. In wake of the
humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza ,
your recent expression of “deep concern” is not enough. It is time
for constructive disengagement from
Israel , financial, diplomatic,
military. What worked in the case of South Africa, divestment and pressure, may
finally work in the Middle East.
Without such justice, there will be no peace.
David Lloyd
University of Southern California Los Angeles
January 1, 2009
Maher Abdelqader, St. Johns
University
Butool Abdullah, University of California
(UC), Riverside
Khadeeja Abdullah, UC Los Angeles
Wadad Abed, Palestine Aid Society
Diana Abouali, Dartmouth College
Thomas Abowd, Wayne State University
Matthew Abraham, DePaul
University
Raed Abughazaleh, Hennepin
County Medical
Center
Janet Abu-Lughod, Northwestern University
Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia
University
Fida Adely, Georgetown
University School
of Foreign Service
Dorothy Aguilera, Lewis & Clark College, Portland
Sanjam Ahluwalia, Northern Arizona University
Barry Aidlin, UC Berkeley
Andrew Aisenberg, Scripps College
Maha Akhtar, Macaulay Honors College at Queens College
Daniel Alarcn, UC Berkeley
Lisa Albrecht, University of Minnesota
Linda Mart’n Alcoff, Hunter College/CUNY
David Alderson, University of Manchester
Hamid Algar, UC Berkeley
Kimberly Alidio, University of Texas at Austin
Dina Al-Kassim, UC Irvine
Amany Al-Sayyed, American University of Beirut
Evelyn Alsultany, University of Michigan
Abbas Al-Tonsi, Georgetown University
Andrew Altounyan, Concerned citizen
Atif Alvi, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Candice Amich, Rutgers University
T.R. Amsler, June Jordan School for Equity
Sriram Ananth, University of Minnesota
Patrick Anderson, UC San Diego
Gil Anidjar, Columbia University
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University
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University
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of Hawaii
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of Arizona
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of Illinois
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University
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of Southern Maine
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Colorado at Boulder
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of Minnesota
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University
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University
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of Washington
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of Pennsylvania
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of Chicago
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of Virginia
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of Miami
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Texas Jail Project
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of Minnesota
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of Nova Scotia
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State University
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of Iowa
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College
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State University ,
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University
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of Arizona
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University
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University
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of Kentucky
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State University
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University
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University
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of Minnesota
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University
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College
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University
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University
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of Utah
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of William and Mary
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of Chicago
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Ohio State University
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University
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College
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Theological Seminary
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Day School
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of Michigan
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University
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Minnesota
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University
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Washington University
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University
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of Minnesota
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Francisco
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of Dayton
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of Illinois ,
Urbana-Champaign
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of Illinois at
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of Chicago
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of Iowa
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of Hawaii at Manoa
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University
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College of the Arts
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Academy of Cincinnati
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William Smith
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of Minnesota
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University
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University
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Medical School
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of Minnesota
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College
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University
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University
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of Cambridge
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of Minnesota
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University
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of Durham
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University
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of Minnesota
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State University
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University
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College
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College
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of Minnesota
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College
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State College
of Liberal Arts
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for Better Learning
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State University
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College
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University
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College
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Chicago
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College
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University
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Texas at Austin
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of Washington
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Texas at Austin
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College
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of Michigan
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University
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University
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Michigan
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State University
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of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
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College
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of Minnesota
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RDK Herman, Smithsonian Institution
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Francisco State
University
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Laboratory
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Day School
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of Georgia
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State University
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of California
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of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
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High School
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Jay College
of Criminal Justice
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State University
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of Minnesota
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William
Smith Colleges
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Angeles
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University
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Scotia College
of Art and Design
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College
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University
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of Toronto
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University
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Illinois at Chicago
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University
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State University
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University Medical
School
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of Colorado ,
Boulder
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Livingston
Union School District
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Community College
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Georgia State
University
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of Sheffield
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of Minnesota
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College
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Carr University
of Art and Design
Adriana Johnson, UC Irvine
Benjamin Shane Jonas, San
Jose State
University
Kathi Jordan ,
Contra Costa
College
George Joseph, Hobart
& William Smith
Colleges
Shady Joulani, UC Los Angeles
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University
Djelal Kadir ,
Pennsylvania State University
Leah Kaminski, UC Irvine
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State University
Katie Kane, University
of Montana
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Eva Kanso, USC
Ronak Kapadia, NYU
Amy Kaplan, University
of Pennsylvania
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State University
Cindi Katz, CUNY
Graduate Center
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University
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University
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University
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University
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of Pennsylvania
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University
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University
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College , CUNY Mustafa Khammash, UC Santa Barbara
Saera R. Khan, University
of San Francisco
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Ali Khejjou, Foothill
College
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University
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College
Jodi Kim, UC Riverside
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of Minnesota
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State University
Laurie King, Georgetown
University
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State University ,
Northridge
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of Chicago
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University
Satish Kolluri, Pace University
Ebru Kongar, Dickinson
College
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College
Paula Kornegay, Kornegay Design
Dennis Kortheuer, California
State University ,
Long Beach
Wendy Kozol, Oberlin
College
Sanjay Krishnan, UC Irvine
Priya Kumar, University
of Iowa
Radha Kumar, Jamia Millia Islamia
James Lafferty, National Lawyers Guild/
Los Angeles
Ingrid Lagos, UC Davis
Premesh Lalu, University of the Western Cape ,
South Africa
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State University
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NYU
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University of Chicago
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of St. Benedict
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University
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Wisconsin , Madison
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of Minnesota
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of Colorado ,
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Barbara
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Texas at Austin
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of Michigan
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University
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University
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University
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College
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of Minnesota
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Texas at Austin
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State University
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University
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University
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University
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State University
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of Hawaii
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University
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University
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of Texas at
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of Chicago
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College
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Poly Pomona
College
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Empowerment School
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University
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University
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University
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Hubert Marshall, Stanford
University
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of Arizona
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Diego
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Anat Matar, Tel
Aviv University
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of Minnesota
Patricia Mathews, Hobart and
William
Smith Colleges
Stanley Mathews,
Hobart and William
Smith Colleges
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Valencia
Community College
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State University
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Colorado , Boulder
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State University
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of Michigan
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of Minnesota
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of Illinois at
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of Minnesota
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State University
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University
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University
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of British Columbia
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University Gregory
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of Rochester
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of Pennsylvania
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Angeles City
College
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Don Mitchell, Syracuse
University
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Public Schools
Minoo Moallem, UC Berkeley
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North Carolina , Wilmington
Farid Mohammadi ,
Texas
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Syracuse University
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University
Alejandra Molina, Hobart and
William
Smith Colleges
Theresa Montano, California
State University
at Northridge
Axel Montepeque, UC San Diego
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of Minnesota
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of Illinois at
Chicago
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University
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of Minnesota
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of Texas at
Austin
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School ,
Woodside , New York
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University
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Michigan , Ann
Arbor
Richa Nagar, University
of Minnesota
Tsolin Nalbantian, Columbia
University
Omar Nasr, UC Los Angeles
Roni Natov, Brooklyn
College , CUNY
Anuradha Dingwaney Needham ,
Oberlin
College
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Lakeland
Community College
Dana D. Nelson, Vanderbilt
University Lindsay
Nelson, USC
Joan Nestle, Queens
College , CUNY
Jane O. Newman, UC Irvine
Marcy Newman, An Najah
University
Niels Niessen, University
of Minnesota
Kalliopi Nikolopoulou, SUNY Buffalo
Aliscia Niles ,
Oregon Schools
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University
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State University
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University
Charlotte Nunes, University of
Texas ,
Austin
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Texas
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University
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Laura O’Connor, UC Irvine
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Chicago
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Marymount University
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University
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Okelberry, Rio
Hondo College
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Ryan Olivas, History teacher
Daniel Olmos, UC Santa Barbara
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University
Judy Olson, California
State University ,
Los Angeles
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State University
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High School
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University
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of Massachusetts
Boston
Naomi Paik, Yale
University
Ellen Palmer, teacher & poet, Chicago,
Paula Panich, freelance writer and teacher
Crystal Parikh, NYU
Lisa
Sun-Hee Park ,
University of
Minnesota
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William Smith
Colleges
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University
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of Minnesota
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of Chicago
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College
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of Minnesota
Claire Pentecost, The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago
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of Minnesota
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University
Christine Perera, People’s Movement for the Rights of Patients,
Sri Lanka
Hiram Perez, Princeton
University
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of Cambridge
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CUNY Graduate
Center
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Kavita Philip, UC Irvine
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University
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Texas at Austin
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Indiana University
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California State University,
Northridge
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State University
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Costa College
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Center for Documentary
Photography
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Wisconsin , Madison
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Community College
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of Minnesota
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of Minnesota
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College
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of Illinois
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Texas , Austin
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of Toronto
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University
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College
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Chicago
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of Minnesota
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College
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of Minnesota
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University
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University of
America
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of Michigan
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of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign
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State University
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of Southern Maine
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of Minnesota
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Washington , Seattle
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Illinois at Chicago
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of Minnesota
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College
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State College
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College
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University
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of Tennessee
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State University
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of Pennsylvania
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of Toronto
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of Minnesota
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San Diego
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University
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of Arizona
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Community Partnership for Children
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State University
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Washington University
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University
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College
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University
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Long Beach
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University
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of Pennsylvania
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University of London
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University
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of Toronto
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State University
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City College
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of Toronto
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University
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of Southampton , UK
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University
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University
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of Minnesota
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College , CUNY
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College , CUNY
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York University
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of Minnesota
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State University
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of Cincinnati
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Indiana University
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College
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of Toronto
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University
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State University
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University
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Federation of Teachers
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of Michigan
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Barbara
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University
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Central School
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University
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of Minnesota
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University
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of Colorado at
Boulder
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of Minnesota
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of St. Thomas
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of Connecticut
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Community College
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of Florida
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College , CUNY
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of Minnesota
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of Michigan
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State University
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University
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of Michigan
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University
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of South Carolina
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University , Camden
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of Mount .
St. Joseph
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of Minnesota
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University Catherine Shields,
Park Day School
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International University
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University
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University
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University
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University
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University
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Julietta Singh, University
of Minnesota
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College
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of Minnesota
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of Texas at
Austin
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State University
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University
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of St. Thomas
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Graduate Center
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College
Kobi Snitz, Technion
Jody Sokolower, UCSF AIDS Health Project
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University , Taipei
Kathryn Sorrells, California
State University ,
Northridge
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University
William V. Spanos, SUNY, Binghamton
Robert Spencer, University
of Manchester
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University
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College
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University
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University
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University
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College , CUNY
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Brian Stross, University of
Texas at Austin
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of Minnesota
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College
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City Area
Public Schools
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of Southern Maine
Ted Swedenburg, University
of Arkansas
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of Minnesota
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University
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University
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David Szanton, UC Berkeley
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College
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State University
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University
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University
Michael Taussig, Columbia
University
Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton
Theological Seminary
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of Hawaii
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Public Schools
Lee Tesdell, Minnesota
State University ,
Mankato
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of Minnesota
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Central Community
College
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University
Jonathan Thomas, University
of Minnesota
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College
Charis Thompson, UC Berkeley
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of Texas at
Austin
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Thorne, UC Berkeley
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Miriam Ticktin, New School for Social Research
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Ellington School
of the Arts
Sarra Tlili, University
of Pennsylvania
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Philippines
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College , Chicago
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Towns , University
of Minnesota
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of Minnesota
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State College
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College
Lucia Trimbur, John
Jay College ,
CUNY
Anna Tsing, UC Santa Cruz
Meredeth Turshen, Rutgers
University
Deepika Udagama, University of
Colombo , Sri Lanka
Benjamin J. Urmston, Xavier
University
Yohana Valdez, UC Los Angeles
Dimitris Vardoulakis, University
of Western Sydney
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of Texas at
Austin
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State University ,
Long Beach
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of Minnesota
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Mawr College
Jen Vernon, UC San Diego
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of Texas at
Austin
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University
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of Georgia
Elizabeth Vogel, University
of Minnesota
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State University
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University
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North Texas
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State University
Richard A. Walker, University
of California
Dorothy Wang, Williams
College
Jane Ward, UC Riverside
John Warner, Hunter
College , CUNY
Robert Warrior, University
of Illinois ,
Urbana-Champaign
Dorothy Jean Weaver, Eastern Mennonite Seminary,
Harrisonburg , VA
Devra Weber, UC Riverside
Elizabeth Weed, Brown
University
Alys Eve Weinbaum, University
of Washington ,
Seattle
Cornel West, Princeton
University
E.A. (“Tony”) Whelan,
London School
of Economics
Roger T. Whitson, University
of South Florida
Faith Wilding, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago
Johnny E. Williams, Trinity
College
Randall Williams, UC San Diego
Jennifer Denise Williams, NYU
Mary-Sherman Willis, George
Washington University
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, UC Irvine
Ann Wilson, SUNY, Duchess
Community College
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Graduate School
Jessica Winegar, Temple
University
David Wittenberg, University
of Iowa
Ellen Wolpert, Cambridge
Community Partnerships for Children
Kristina Wong, Solo Performer and Writer,
Los Angeles
Jolie Wood, University of
Texas at Austin
John E. Woods, University
of Chicago
Tryon P. Woods, Sonoma
State University
Daryl Wright, Springfield
College of Human
Services-Boston
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of British Columbia
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College
Umeyye Izra Yazicioglu, St.
Joseph ‘s University
Seval Yildirim, Whittier
Law School
Lawrence
M. Yoder, Eastern Mennonite Seminary
Susan Yohn, Hofstra
University
Theodore Jun Yoo, University
of Hawaii
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of Hawaii
June Zaccone, Hofstra
University Vazira
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University
Kathryn Zamora-Moeller, UC Berkeley
Ahmed Zildzic, UC Berkeley
Catherine Zimmer, Pace University
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