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The People Media Project’s advisory board consists of world
leading and renowned individuals, intellectuals, artists.
They are:
NOAM CHOMSKY- World-renowned author, linguist,
political activist, lecturer and philosopher, Noam Chomsky's
contributions to language, linguistic theory and psychology
are considered some of the most groundbreaking of the 20th
century. He has been a long-term political activist and supporter
of human rights around the world and is one of the best-known
critics of US imperialism today. He is also the author of
several influential books, including Manufacturing Consent:
The Political Economy of the Mass Media (with Edward S. Herman)
and Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Society.
Professor Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department
of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
WILLIAM COOK- William Cook has spent his
professional career as Chair, Dean and Vice President at seven
universities in five states across the US. He received his
BA from King's College in Pennsylvania and his Master's and
doctorate from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Following his academic administrative career in 2000, he joined
the English Department at the University of La Verne as Professor.
He is the author of three books, A Time to Know, Psalms for
the 21st Century, and Tracking Deception: Bush Mid-East Policy.
ROGER VAN ZWANENBERG - Roger Van Zwanenberg
is President and Publisher of Pluto Books. He has been publishing
books within the Western radical academic left tradition for
over three decades, founding Zed books in 1976, and has been
with Pluto for the last twenty years.
KATHY KELLY - Kathy Kelly co-coordinates
Voices for Creative Nonviolence (VCNV) and is one of the founding
participants in Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign which,
since 1996, nonviolently defied economic sanctions against
Iraq. VCNV continues campaigning for an end to economic and
military warfare against the Iraqi people.
ILAN PAPPE- Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian
and until recently senior lecturer at Haifa University. He
now holds a chair in history at the University of Exeter,
UK. He was the Academic Director of the Research Institute
for Peace at Givat Haviva and is the Chair of the Emil Touma
Institute for Palestinian Studies. Professor Pappe is an expert
on Israel and Zionism and the Palestinian Right of Return.
He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Council for
Palestinian Restitution and Repatriation (CPRR).
PAUL MASON- Dr Paul Mason is Senior Lecturer
in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff
University. He has written extensively in the field of crime
and media. His books include Criminal Visions: media representations
of crime and justice (ed), Captured by the Media: Prison Discourse
in Media Culture and Policing and the Media: Facts, Fictions
and Factions (with Frank Leishman). He also edits [jc2m] Journal
for Crime, Conflict and Media Culture and ran the conference
The Error in Terrorism? Political Violence and the Media,
in 2003.
ARUN GANDHI - Arun Gandhi is a peace activist
and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. He is the co-founder of India's
Center for Social Unity, whose mission is to alleviate poverty
and caste discrimination. In 1991 he founded, along with his
wife Sunanda, the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at
the University of Rochester, NY. An author, journalist and
activist, he regularly lectures around the world.
JOHN PILGER - John Pilger is a world-renowned
journalist and documentary filmmaker. His work has appeared
in The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Mirror, The New
Statesman, The New York Times, among many others. His books
include The New Rulers of the World and Tell me No Lies: Investigative
Journalism and its Triumphs. His latest film The War on Democracy
was released in 2006 to widespread critical acclaim. In 2003,
Pilger was awarded the prestigious Sophie Prize for '30 years
of exposing injustice and promoting human rights.
GHADA KARMI - Dr Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian-British
author, academic and political commentator and is an honorary
research fellow and assistant lecturer at the Institute of
Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. A well
known international commentator on the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, Dr Karmi appears widely in the British and Arab
media and has written on the Middle East for The Guardian,
The Nation and Journal of Palestine Studies. She is the author
of a widely acclaimed memoir In Search of Fatima: a Palestinian
story. Her most recent book is Married to Another Man: Israel's
Dilemma in Palestine.
FRANCIS BOYLE - Francis Boyle is a leading
professor, practitioner and advocate of international law.
He was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism
Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the
1972 Biological Weapons Convention. He served as Legal Advisor
to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations
from 1991 to 1993, served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty
International (1988-1992), and represented Bosnia-Herzegovina
at the World Court. Professor Boyle teaches international
law at the University of Illinois, Champaign and is author
of several books.
VANDANA SHIVA - Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned
environmental leader, feminist, physicist and thinker. She
is Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology,
and Ecology, and the author of many books, including Staying
Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India (1988) and Water
Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization (2001). Shiva
is also a leader in the International Forum on Globalization,
along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin. In 1993, Shiva won
the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award).
WENDY KRISTIANESEN - Wendy Kristianasen runs
the English edition (LMD) of the French monthly journal, Le
Monde diplomatique. She also covers the Middle East and Muslim
world as a journalist (including for Le Monde diplomatique),
in particular Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Iran and North
Africa (Algeria and Morocco). She has done journalistic and
research work into Europe's Muslims, in particular in Britain
and France.
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