Lynn began her rabbinic career in 1973-1979 as rabbi to Temple Beth Or of the Deaf in NYC, while she pursued rabbinic training. Lynn’s vision and creativity helped create the Jewish Renewal Movement, and she was the first woman ordained through that movement (1981). From 1979-82, Lynn staffed the Jewish Peace Fellowship. In 1983 she co-founded Congregation Nahalat Shalom in Albuquerque, a Jewish community with an open heart devoted to education, the arts and peacemaking. Lynn has worked with people of all ages and faiths to create meaningful ritual that celebrates and mourns the passages of life: from birth to death.

Lynn is also a life long pursuer of social justice, reconciliation and peace. She has received numerous human rights awards, including recognition from the City of Albuquerque and the UN Chapter of Albuquerque. In 2002 in response to September 11th, Lynn co-founded the Muslim-Jewish Peace Walk for Interfaith Solidarity with Abdul Rauf Campos Marquetti. Together they organized peace pilgrimages between local synagogues, mosques and churches in 16 cities throughout Canada bringing thousands of people together. Programs resulting from those walks continue to thrive. Rabbi Gottlieb has extensive experience in Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation as well, and leads frequent delegations to the Middle East to meet with people involved in coexistence work through the auspice of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Rabbi Gottlieb is a founder of the Shomer Shalom Institute for Jewish Nonviolence. Shomer Shalom is an organization of Jews who follow a path of nonviolence based on Jewish principles of religious engagement. Shomer Shalom is committed to cultivating an intergenerational, multi-cultural and interfaith global community of peace, justice, loving kindness, and solidarity.

Gottlieb led a Fellowship of Reconciliation delegation to Iran in 2008, thus becoming the first U.S. Rabbi and the first female Rabbi to visit Iran in a public delegation since the 1979 Iranian revolution.

On September 25, 2008 she participated in an interfaith gathering in New York at which President Ahmaninajed of Iran spoke. Her presence at the event was widely criticized as bolstering President Ahmaninajed’s position after a UN speech in which he expressed relatively crude anti-Jewish stereotypes and reiterated his oft-repeated wish for Israel’s swift demise. In response to President Ahmaninajed’s remarks, Rabbi Goittleib told Reuters “Our world views are rather different. But unless we … dialogue face to face, how will we create any kind of understanding?” adding that she chose to attend because “peace is better than war.”

Lynn is also a frequently published author of poems, essays and the book She Who Dwells Within (Harper San Francisco, 1995), an avid naturalist, a perpetual student of Sephardic culture, and a frequent participant with Buddhist, Native American, Muslim, Ba’hai, Hindu, Sikh and Christian communities in the work of interfaith understanding and reconciliation in national and international settings.

Please visit:

http://shomershalom.org/

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Susan Boyle is a Scottish singer and church volunteer who came to public attention on 11 April 2009, when she appeared as a contestant on the third series of Britain’s Got Talent. Boyle found fame when she sang “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Misérables in the competition’s first round.

Before she sang, both the audience and the judges appeared to express scepticism based on her unpolished appearance. In contrast, her vocal performance was so well received that she has been dubbed “The Woman Who Shut Up Simon Cowell.” She received a standing ovation from the live audience, garnering yes-votes from Cowell and Amanda Holden, and the “biggest yes I have ever given anybody” from Piers Morgan. The audition was recorded in January 2009 at the Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow, Scotland, and was first broadcast on Saturday, 11 April 2009 in Britain.

The juxtaposition of the reception to her voice with the audience’s first impression of her triggered global interest. Articles about her appeared in newspapers all over the world, while the numbers who watched videos of her audition set an online record. By 20 April 2009, a mere 9 days after her televised debut, viral videos of her audition, subsequent interviews of her, and her 1999 rendition of “Cry Me a River” had been viewed over 100 million times on the Internet. Cowell is reported to be setting up a contract with Boyle with his Syco Music company label, a subsidiary of Sony Music.

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Since the first Camp Casey, Cindy has established or inspired similar camps and protests all over the USA. Her journeys on behalf of the Peace Movement have taken her all over the world - Australia, South America, Europe. In all her travels and talks, she touches on how the president has betrayed the American people and exploited the brave men and women in uniform to bring more profit to his friends. “My goal is to bring our troops home to try and save another mother from going through what I am going through.”

Cindy’s latest book is Myth America 10 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution! In this exciting Internet Booklet, Cindy, with her characteristic open honesty not only exposes the myths of the Robber Class, but gives us tangible and doable solutions and alternatives to buying in to the Robber Class myths!

Please visit:

http://www.CindySheehansSoapbox.com

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Throughout his tenure in public service, Anderson has been committed to fiscally responsible government, insuring the continuation of vital services while maintaining a balanced budget. His legislative priorities include consumer protection, election reform, protecting our children, quality healthcare, and insurance accountability and affordability.

Senator Anderson believes that building strong communities is important to building a stronger Michigan. Over the years Senator Anderson has been active in a number of local organizations including the Churchill High School PTA, Western Wayne NAACP, Westland Jaycees, Goodfellows, Rouge River Rescue, and Westland Hockey Association. Anderson was chosen as “Legislator of the Year” by the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police and has been recognized by numerous organizations for his legislative work including the Michigan Association of School Psychologists, and the Michigan Municipal League. Anderson is also an alumnus of the National Conference of State Legislator’s BILLD and Toll Fellowships.

Before entering public service, Anderson was employed by Ford Motor Company, and has been a member of the UAW since 1972. He has also been a licensed Realtor since 1979. He and his wife Gail have made Westland their home for almost 30 years. They have two adult children, Melissa and Kyle, and two grandchildren, Mackenzie and Logan.

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He was the youngest ever elected chairman of the Labour party in Scotland at the age of twenty–six, having become a full-time party organiser three years earlier.

In 1983, he moved to London as the General Secretary of War on Want, the international development agency, leaving the post upon his election to parliament in 1987.

He first became involved in the Palestinian cause in the early 1970’s, regularly visiting Lebanon and becoming an activist in support of the PLO.

In 1980, he arranged the twinning of his city, Dundee with the Palestinian town Nablus. Thus, Dundee’s city hall became the first public building in any western country to fly the Palestinian flag. Also, in 1980 he formed the British Trades Union Friends of Palestine and became its first General Secretary.

In 1982, he founded the Emergency Committee against the invasion of Lebanon.

In 1990, he was one of the leading opponents of the war in the Gulf although he had never visited Iraq [the only Arab country he had never visited] and would not have been welcomed there as he was a known opponent of the Iraqi government, not least over the Iran -Iraq War.

In 1991 he formed the Emergency Committee on Iraq and remains its chairman. The Committee renamed itself the Emergency Committee on Iraq and Palestine [ECIP] in the year 2000.

In 1990, he was awarded Pakistan’s highest civil award, the Hilal-i-Quaid-i- Azam, for services to the restoration of Democracy in Pakistan. In 1996, he was awarded Pakistan’s second highest civil award, the Hilal-i-Pakistan, for services to the cause of the Kashmiri people.

In 1998, he founded the Mariam Appeal named after the Iraqi child Mariam Hamza, who was brought to Britain amidst great controversy for cancer treatment. The Appeal campaigned around the issue of cancers caused by allied use of Depleted Uranium weapons in the Gulf.

In the year 2000, he founded and is the chairman of the Great Britain - Iraq Society. He is a former Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Iran. He is also a founder member of the Cairo Conference bringing together Islamist, Nationalist and Socialist trends from around the world to work against globalization, occupation and war.

He is a founder of the Stop the War Coalition UK and is currently its Vice-President. The Stop The War Coalition mobilized two million people to protest against the war on Iraq (the largest demonstration of people in British history).

In 2003, George Galloway was expelled by Tony Blair from the Labour Party for his opposition to the illegal war on Iraq. In 2004 George Galloway founded RESPECT–The Unity Coalition, the anti-war party. Within weeks RESPECT had won the elections of June 10th in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. In 2005, he became Respect’s first MP, for Bethnal Greenal & Bow.

George currently has a show on “Talk Sport” every Saturday and Sunday.

George Galloway is the author of “Downfall: The Ceausescus and the Romanian Revolution” 1990, “I’m Not the Only One” 2004. And he is the author of a forthcoming biography of Fidel Castro.

He is a frequent broadcaster, author, and public speaker. He was awarded “Parliamentary Debater” of the year in 2003, by the Parliamentary Press Corps.

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