Medea Benjamin and Alice Slater
Medea Benjamin is codirector of CODEPINK for Peace and author of several books, including Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic.
Alice Slater serves on the Coordinating Committee of World Beyond War and is the UN Representative of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
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