Dr. William Pepper is a barrister in the United Kingdom and admitted to the bar in numerous jurisdictions in the United States of America. His primary work is international commercial law and practices international human rights law from London. Dr. Pepper convened a seminar on international human rights at Oxford University. He has represented governments in the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Asia. Dr. Pepper has lectured at many universities and has been interviewed on many major news programs.

Dr. Pepper was a friend of Martin Luther King in the last year of his life. He represented James Earl Ray, attempting to get him the trial that he never had. Dr. Pepper then represented the King family in a wrongful death civil trial King family vs. Loyd Jowers and other unknown co-conspirators. During a trial that lasted four weeks he produced over seventy witnesses. The jury took less than an hour to find in favour of the King family. He is the author of four books including "An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, Jr."

Lorie Van Auken is a 9/11 widow, one of the "Jersey Girls". Her husband, Kenneth Van Auken, was a bond broker at Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., and worked on the 105th floor of WTC Tower One. Along with three other 9/11 New Jersey widows (Kristen Breitweiser, Mindy Kleinberg and Patty Casazza) and eight other victims’ family members, Lorie worked to form the 9/11 Commission, despite attempts by The White House to block it. This group later became the Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Commission.

After the release of the 9/11 Commission Report, Lorie and the other Jersey Girls held a series of press conferences which were highly critical of the Commission. She accused the commissioners of ignoring key evidence which would have demonstrated extreme negligence in the conduct of government officials, both before and on 9/11. Lorie presented a detailed report written by the Jersey widows to an official hearing on Capitol Hill sponsored by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney entitled "The 9/11 Commission Report One Year Later: Did They Get It Right?"

Lincoln Chafee was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Rhode Island and served on the Foreign Relations Committee. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Chafee earned a degree in Classics from Brown University in 1975. Chafee first entered into politics in 1985, where he was a delegate to the Rhode Island Constitutional Convention. A short year later, Chafee was elected to the Warwick City Council. He eventually became mayor of Warwick from 1992-1999. Chafee’s father, John Chafee, was a U.S. Senator until his sudden death in 1999. Lincoln Chafee was then appointed to fill his father’s seat in the U.S. Senate by Governor Lincoln Almond. He was eventually elected in 2000 for a full 6 year term. He is currently a visiting scholar at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.

Ed Asner won five Emmy awards for portraying the character of Mary Tyler Moore's boss Lou Grant in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977), and a crusading newspaperman for the spin-off series Lou Grant (1977-1982). Asner's public persona is also that of a crusader and celebrity activist. Asner also was a two-term president of the Screen Actors Guild. As a leading activist in the actors' strike of 1980, he was an outspoken, controversial leader. Asner continues to be active in many humanitarian and political organizations. His boundless energy is divided between his dramatic roles, and various political and charitable causes.

Navy Captain Dr. Edgar Mitchell is a scientist, test pilot, astronaut, entrepreneur, author and lecturer. His academic background includes a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University, a Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a Doctor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. He was the sixth man to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission which was NASA's third manned lunar landing. In addition he has received honorary doctorates in engineering from New Mexico State University, the University of Akron, Carnegie Mellon University and a ScD from Embry-Riddle University. Dr. Mitchell has received many awards and honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the USN Distinguished Medal and three NASA Group Achievement Awards. He was inducted to the Space Hall of Fame in 1979 and the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1998.

Mike Gravel enlisted in the U.S. Army (1951-54) and served as special adjutant in the Communication Intelligence Services and as a Special Agent in the Counter Intelligence Corps.

He received a B.S. in economics from Columbia University, New York City, and holds four honorary degrees in law and public affairs.

Mike Gravel served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1963-66, and as Speaker from 1965-66. He then represented Alaska in the U.S. Senate from 1969-81. He served on the Finance, Interior, and Environmental and Public Works committees, chairing the Energy, Water Resources, Buildings and Grounds, and Environmental Pollution subcommittees.

In 1971, he waged a successful one-man filibuster for five months that forced the Nixon administration to cut a deal, effectively ending the draft in the United States. He is most prominently known for his release of the Pentagon Papers, the secret official study that revealed the lies and manipulations of successive U.S. administrations that misled the country into the Vietnam War. After the New York Times published portions of the leaked study, the Nixon administration moved to block any further publication of information and to punish any newspaper publisher who revealed the contents.

From the floor of the senate, Gravel (a junior senator at the time) insisted that his constituents had a right to know the truth behind the war and proceeded to read 4,100 pages of the 7,000 page document into the senate record.

During the late 60s and 70s Mike opposed nuclear testing under the seabed of the North Pacific as well as the development of nuclear power plants.

He became founder and head of The Democracy Foundation, which promotes direct democracy founded on citizen-based referendums or ballot initiatives.

He is currently a Democratic candidate for President of the United States.

Bishop Thomas Gumbleton is the pastor of St. Leo's parish in the inner city of Detroit, Michigan. He was ordained to the Priesthood on June 2nd 1956. In 1964 he graduated from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, Italy, as a Doctor of Canon Law. He was named Bishop on March 4th, 1968. As a member of the Bishops committee, he helped draft the significant pastoral letter called The Challenge of Peace in 1983.

Bishop Gumbleton is the founding president of Pax Christi USA (1972-1991), former president of Bread for the World (1976-84) and co-founder of the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights (1980). He has been a board member of numerous organizations including the MK Gandhi institute of Non-violence, New Ways Ministry, Witness for Peace, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He has received numerous awards for his actions on behalf of peace and justice including the Pax Christi USA Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award (1991) and Call To Action's Leadership Award (1995). He was bestowed the University of Notre Dame Peacemaker award in 1991. In 1997 he was awarded the National Peace Foundation Award of Peacemaker/Peacebuilder in Washington, D.C.

Over the years, his journeys of peace have brought him to Vietnam, Iran, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico City, Kazakhstan, Hiroshima, Jordan, Haiti, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Iraq (six times from 1990 to 2001), Peru, Colombia, and most recently, Afghanistan (June 2002).He of ten serves as expert witness, endorses significant causes, and participates in actions of civil disobedience, fasts, and prayer vigils.

Bishop Gumbleton is a noted speaker and writer. His columns appear regularly in the National Catholic Reporter. His weekly column, The Peace Pulpit, is featured on the website of the National Catholic Reporter. As a member of the US Catholic Conference of Bishops, he encourages the hierarchy of the Catholic Church to keep justice and peace issues high on their list of priorities.

Ralph Schoenman was Executive Director of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. He helped secure the release of political prisoners in many countries and initiated the International Tribunal on U.S. War Crimes in Indo-China, of which he was Secretary General.

Long active in political life, he initiated the Committee of 100 which organized civil disobedience against nuclear weapons and U.S. bases in Great Britain. He was founder and Director of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and director of the Who Killed Kennedy Committee.

Ralph Schoenman was a founder of the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran and spent seven months in Iran during the revolution against the Shah.
Ralph Schoenman was a president of the International Tribunal Against the Debt, Lima, Peru and assisted in the formation of the Africa Tribunal in Johannesburg, South Africa and Los Angeles, CA.

Ralph Schoenman is Executive Director of the Council on Human Needs which acts as an advocate for young African-American prisoners.

He and Mya Shone were directors of the Committee in Defense of the Lebanese and Palestinian Peoples during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, of the Palestine Campaign, which at the time of the first Intifada called for an end to all aid to apartheid Israel and for a democratic secular Palestine, and of Workers and Artists for "Solidarity" (that is, Solidarnarsc, the Polish Workers' movement). They were the North American organizers of the International Conference Against Repression in Haiti that took place in Port-au-Prince during the oppressive Raoul Cedras regime.