Max Elbaum is author of Revolution in the Air, recently reissued by Verso Books, and an editor of OrganizingUpgrade.com
Calvin Cheung-Miaw is with the Left Inside/Outside Project, and an editor of OrganizingUpgrade.com
For 18 days, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.