Cindy Sheehan and the Progressive Democrats of America

Mimi Kennedy

• Advisory Board Chair
• TV actress: Played Abby, Dharma's hippie mom, "Dharma and Greg"
• Worked on Dennis Kucinich's anti-war presidential campaign.
• Founded Progressive Democrats of America, of which she is Honorary Chair.

Stephen Shaff

• Advisory Board Vice Chair
• Founder and President of Community-Vision Consultants, a community development and social activist firm based in Washington, DC.

Medea Benjamin

• Founding director of Global Exchange
• Co-founder of United for Peace and Justice
• Co-founder of Code Pink (Crazy Cindy Sheehan's primary sponsor)

John C. Bonifaz, J.D.

• Constitutional lawyer, who filed a federal lawsuit challenging President George W. Bush's authority to wage war against Iraq absent a congressional declaration of war or equivalent action.
• Author of the book "Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush".
• Co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org
• Lead counsel for the Green/Libertarian Party-sponsored recount in Ohio

Acie Byrd

• Vice President of the Veterans' Institute for Security and Democracy
• Founding member of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign
• Executive Board Member of the SANE/Freeze Campaign
• Member of the University of Maryland Board of Trustees for Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Political analyst and commentator on Pacifica radio
• Worked on the presidential campaigns of Iowa Senator Tom Harkin and the Rev. Jesse Jackson
• Chaired the Working Group for the Alliance of Atomic Veterans
• Served as a field coordinator for the Democratic Party's Get Out The Vote efforts in Florida

Steve Cobble

• Co-founder of PDA
• Co-founder ofAfterDowningStreet.org
• Former Political Director and speechwriter for the National Rainbow Coalition
• National Delegate Coordinator for Jackson for President '88
• Directed the Keep Hope Alive PAC
• Campaign worker for Carol Moseley Braun for U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1992
• Worked with Nader for President in 2000
• Strategic Adviser to Dennis Kucinich in 2003-04
• Served as a Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics
• Director of the Campaign for a Progressive Future
• Director of the Arca Foundation
• Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy

Jeff Cohen

• Founder of FAIR
• Communications Director of the Kucinich for President campaign
• MSNBC commentator
• Co-host of "Crossfire" on CNN
• Senior producer of "Donahue" on MSNBC

United States Representative John Conyers Jr.

• Ranking Democrat on the pivotal House Judiciary Committee
• Co-founder and Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus
• Founding member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus

Jodie Evans

• Co-founded CODEPINK
• Co-authored the book Stop the Next War Now
• Ran Jerry Brown's campaign for president in 1991
• Serves on the boards of 12 non-profits including Rainforest Action Network

Gary L. Flowers

• Serves as a Vice President of Programs/National Field Director for Reverend Jesse L. Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

Lila Garrett

• Southern California Chair of the Kucinich Campaign for President
• Host of the popular political radio talk CONNECT THE DOTS on Pacifica's KPFK
• Former President of Southern California Americans for Democratic Action
• Served on the Board of the ACLU
• Founder and Co-Chair of Americans against War in Iraq (AAWWI)
• Founding member of the Board of the California CleanMoneyCampaign
• TV-screen writer, producer and director

Congressional Representative Raúl M. Grijalva

• 7th Congressional District of Arizona

Tom Hayden

• Founding member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
• Lead street demonstrations against the war at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention
• Former California state Assemblyman
• Former California state Senator
• Former husband of "Hanoi Jane" Fonda

Congresswoman Barbara Lee

• House International Relations Committee
• House Financial Services Committee
• Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
• Whip for the Congressional Black Caucus
• Senior Democratic Whip
• Only member of Congress to vote against the resolution authorizing President Bush to use force following 9/11
• Sponsored legislation disavowing the doctrine of preemptive war
• Co-sponsored legislation to create a cabinet-level Department of Peace
• Vocal opponent of the Patriot Act

Joe Libertelli

• Co-founded the MetroDC Environmental Network (MetNet)

Ralph I. Miller

• Co-Founder and Executive Director of Latinos for America
• Former California Chair of Latinos for Dean
• Helped transition Latinos for Dean into Latinos for America at the closing of Howard Dean's Presidential bid
• Worked on staff for the Dean for DNC Chair campaign
• Advisory Member of Hispanics for a Fair Judiciary
• Native Spanish speaker who grew up in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Miami

Greg Moore

• Executive Director of the NAACP National Voter Fund
• Former Chief of Staff to US Representative John Conyers
• Former Deputy Political Director for the Democratic National Committee
• Former Executive Director of the Citizenship Education Fund, the civic educational arm of the National Rainbow Coalition

Pam Paul

• Board Member of Grassroots for America

Jamie Raskin

• Former state assistant attorney general
• General counsel of the National Rainbow Coalition

Joel Segal

• Senior legislative assistant for Representative John Conyers

Cindy Sheehan

• Professional Moonbat
• Founder of Gold Star Families for Peace

State Rep. Kyrsten Sinema

• Named the Sierra Club's Most Valuable Member in 2005 session
• Co-hosts a talk radio show on Air America

David Swanson

• Creator of MeetWithCindy.org
• Co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org
• Washington Director of Democrats.com
• Board member of Progressive Democrats of America
• Former Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign
• Media Coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association

Bruce Taub

• Writer and personal injury lawyer in Boston, MA
• Member of Amnesty International
• Served as Massachusetts co-coordinator of the 2004 Kucinich for President campaign

Congresswoman Maxine Waters

• Key leader in five presidential campaigns:
• Sen. Edward Kennedy (1980), Lost
• Rev. Jesse Jackson (1984 and 1988), Lost, Lost
• President Bill Clinton (1992 and 1996). Two out of five ain't bad

Congresswoman Diane E. Watson

• Former U.S. Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia
• Democratic Regional Whip for Southern California

Michele White

• Co-founder of Progressive Vote
• Co-founder of Progressive Democrats of America

Lyle "Butch" Wing

• National political director for Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey

• Chair of the Democratic Caucus Task Force on Children and Families
• Ranking Member of the House Education Committee's Subcommittee on Education Reform
• Senior Member on the House Science Committee's Subcommittee on Energy
• First former welfare mom to serve in Congress
• Chair of the Democratic Children and Working Families Caucus
• Co-Chair of the Progressive Caucus

Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.

• Senior consultant for the Russell Simmons' Hip Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN), P Diddy's Citizen Change (Vote Or Die)
• Consultant for MTV, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Black Entertainment Television (BET)

I just LOVE playing "Connect-the-Dots", don't you?