For the U.S. President’s State of the Union Address, please visit: http://www.whitehouse.gov
For analysis and commentary on the speech, please see the following
Assessments of the State of the Union Address
The following analysts and activists are available to critique various
aspects of the State of the Union address.
FRANCES FOX PIVEN, fpiven@email.gc.cuny.edu,
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Bush_Gang/War_At_Home.html
Author of the book “The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism”, Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and
Sociology at the Graduate School and University Center of the City
University of New York.
MEIZHU LUI, ckasica@faireconomy.org, http://faireconomy.org
Lui is executive director of United for a Fair Economy.
VALDA FORD, vford@unmc.edu, http://www.centerforhumandiversity.org
Ford is director of community and multicultural affairs at the
University of Nebraska Medical Center.
QUENTIN YOUNG, http://pnhp.org
IDA HELLANDER, pnhp@aol.com
Young is coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program;
Hellander is executive director for the group and co-editor of the book
“Bleeding the Patient: The Consequences of Corporate Healthcare”.
JACQUELINE CABASSO, wslf@earthlink.net, http://www.wslfweb.org
JOHN BURROUGHS, johnburroughs@lcnp.org, http://www.lcnp.org
Executive director of the California-based Western States Legal
Foundation, Cabasso has written many articles assessing nuclear policy.
Burroughs is executive director of the New York-based Lawyers' Committee
on Nuclear Policy. He can address the situation with Iran and issues of
nuclear weapons generally. They are among the contributors to the new
blog: http://www.disarmamentactivist.org .
NASEER ARURI, naruri@aol.com
Aruri is chancellor professor emeritus of political science at the
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Author of numerous books on
the Mideast, he can address U.S. policy in the region, particularly on
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Iraq war.
SIBEL EDMONDS, sedmonds@nswbc.org, http://www.nswbc.org ,
http://www.justacitizen.com
Edmonds is director of the National Security Whistleblowers
Coalition. She wrote the recent article “Illegal and Indiscriminate
Spying Hurts Our National Security, Here Is Why”.
JENNIFER VAN BERGEN, jvbxyz@earthlink.net,
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20060109_bergen.html
Van Bergen is author of the article “The Unitary Executive: Is The
Doctrine Behind the Bush Presidency Consistent with a Democratic State?”
CINDY SHEEHAN, MALIK RAHIM, ANN WRIGHT, via Gael Murphy,, gael@codepinkalert.org
Sheehan is author of the new book “Not One More Mother's Child”;
Rahim is a political activist from New Orleans; Wright was a diplomat in the State Department for 15 years before resigning in March 2003,
protesting the then-impending invasion of Iraq. They will be among the
speakers at a “People's State of the Union” at the Stewart R. Mott
House, 122 Maryland Avenue, NE, Washington, D.C. at 3 p.m. Tuesday. They
will also be among the participants at a public viewing and response to
the State of the Union at Bus Boys and Poets restaurant and bookstore
Tuesday evening, at 14th and V, NW, Washington, D.C., all of which will
be carried live at: http://www.pacifica.org .
IPA will be producing a PDF critique of the State of the Union for
public distribution by Wednesday morning, available at:
http://accuracy.org/s2006.pdf .
For more information, contact: Sam Husseini or David Zupan, at the
Institute for Public Accuracy
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
1 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org
For analysis and commentary on the speech, please see the following
Assessments of the State of the Union Address
The following analysts and activists are available to critique various
aspects of the State of the Union address.
FRANCES FOX PIVEN, fpiven@email.gc.cuny.edu,
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Bush_Gang/War_At_Home.html
Author of the book “The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism”, Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and
Sociology at the Graduate School and University Center of the City
University of New York.
MEIZHU LUI, ckasica@faireconomy.org, http://faireconomy.org
Lui is executive director of United for a Fair Economy.
VALDA FORD, vford@unmc.edu, http://www.centerforhumandiversity.org
Ford is director of community and multicultural affairs at the
University of Nebraska Medical Center.
QUENTIN YOUNG, http://pnhp.org
IDA HELLANDER, pnhp@aol.com
Young is coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program;
Hellander is executive director for the group and co-editor of the book
“Bleeding the Patient: The Consequences of Corporate Healthcare”.
JACQUELINE CABASSO, wslf@earthlink.net, http://www.wslfweb.org
JOHN BURROUGHS, johnburroughs@lcnp.org, http://www.lcnp.org
Executive director of the California-based Western States Legal
Foundation, Cabasso has written many articles assessing nuclear policy.
Burroughs is executive director of the New York-based Lawyers' Committee
on Nuclear Policy. He can address the situation with Iran and issues of
nuclear weapons generally. They are among the contributors to the new
blog: http://www.disarmamentactivist.org .
NASEER ARURI, naruri@aol.com
Aruri is chancellor professor emeritus of political science at the
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Author of numerous books on
the Mideast, he can address U.S. policy in the region, particularly on
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Iraq war.
SIBEL EDMONDS, sedmonds@nswbc.org, http://www.nswbc.org ,
http://www.justacitizen.com
Edmonds is director of the National Security Whistleblowers
Coalition. She wrote the recent article “Illegal and Indiscriminate
Spying Hurts Our National Security, Here Is Why”.
JENNIFER VAN BERGEN, jvbxyz@earthlink.net,
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20060109_bergen.html
Van Bergen is author of the article “The Unitary Executive: Is The
Doctrine Behind the Bush Presidency Consistent with a Democratic State?”
CINDY SHEEHAN, MALIK RAHIM, ANN WRIGHT, via Gael Murphy,, gael@codepinkalert.org
Sheehan is author of the new book “Not One More Mother's Child”;
Rahim is a political activist from New Orleans; Wright was a diplomat in the State Department for 15 years before resigning in March 2003,
protesting the then-impending invasion of Iraq. They will be among the
speakers at a “People's State of the Union” at the Stewart R. Mott
House, 122 Maryland Avenue, NE, Washington, D.C. at 3 p.m. Tuesday. They
will also be among the participants at a public viewing and response to
the State of the Union at Bus Boys and Poets restaurant and bookstore
Tuesday evening, at 14th and V, NW, Washington, D.C., all of which will
be carried live at: http://www.pacifica.org .
IPA will be producing a PDF critique of the State of the Union for
public distribution by Wednesday morning, available at:
http://accuracy.org/s2006.pdf .
For more information, contact: Sam Husseini or David Zupan, at the
Institute for Public Accuracy
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
1 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org