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Staff Sergeant Tassi McKee, Appeal for Redress Kelly Dougherty, Iraq Veterans Against the War Stacey Hafley, Military Families Speak Out Ret. Col. Ann Wright, Veterans For Peace Tina Richards, Grassroots America, Military Families Speak Out Sara Wright, Military Families Speak Out Aseel Al Banna, Iraqi Voices for Peace Sue Udry, United for Peace and Justice Coalition Medea Benjamin, Progressive Democrats of America, Code Pink Linda Schade, VotersForPeace Staff Sergeant Tassi McKee is with Appeal for Redress, www.AppealForRedress.org, a group of active duty, reserve, and guard service members who are appealing to their Congressional Representative and U.S. Senators to urge an end to the U.S. military occupation. She is a staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force where she is an intelligence analyst. Kelly Dougherty is the executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War, www.ivaw.org. She spent Dougherty spent 10 months in Iraq with the 220th Military Police Company. Stacey Hafley of Military Families Speak Out, www.mfso.org, president of the Midwest chapter of MFSO and on the board of the organization. She is the wife of an Iraq veteran and Ret. Col. Joseph Hafley. Ret. Col. Ann Wright is the president of Veterans For Peace, www.VeteransForPeace.org, joined the Foreign Service in 1987 and served as Deputy Chief of Mission of US Embassies in Sierra Leone , Micronesia and briefly in Afghanistan . She received the State Department's Award for Heroism for her actions during the evacuation of 2500 persons from the civil war in Sierra Leone , the largest evacuation since the evacuation of Saigon in 1974. She resigned from the State Department due to her opposition for the Iraq War. Before entering the Foreign Service, she served in the Army and has a combined regular Army/Army Reserve service time of 29 years. She served primarily in special operations units and attained the rank of colonel. Tina Richards is the CEO of Grassroots America, www.GrassrootsAmerica4us.org. She is the mother of Marine Cpl. Cloy Richards who served two tours in Iraq and is now 80% disabled. She managed the congressional campaign of Democrat, Veronica Hambacker, in Missouri.
Kevin Zeese is Executive Director of the Campaign for Fresh Air and Clean Politics (www.FreshAirCleanPolitics.net) whose projects include Voters for Peace (www.VotersForPeace.US., True Vote (www.TrueVote.US and www.TrueVoteMD.org) and Climate Security (www.GlobalClimateSecurity.org). He is also president of Common Sense for Drug Policy (www.csdp.org).
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