Medea Benjamin and Zoltan Grossman
Medea Benjamin is cofounder of CODEPINK for Peace, and author of several books, including Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control. (https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/inside-iran-medea-benjamin/)
Zoltán Grossman (https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan/) is a Professor of Geography and Native Studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He is author of Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands (https://sites.evergreen.edu/unlikelyalliances/), and co-editor of Asserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis (http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/asserting-native-resilience).
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