Tim Dowlin is an award-winning playwright, actor, poet, and hip-hop artist.He received an Oppenheimer award for the play, “Corner Wars.” When he went back to the Philadelphia streets, where he used to hang out with grafitti writers, he saw all new faces selling drugs. Tim says, "It saddens me to see young brothers out there shooting each other over crumbs. I believe there’s more than enough to go around. This world could be a beautiful place if the priorities are not about making profits.The conditions make us jaded and cold and isolated. There’s a conscious effort to keep us that way. Our job is to be visionaries and let people know it’s possible to have change." Diane Dujon, is editor of "For Crying Out Loud, Women's Poverty in the United States," a book that brings the voices of welfare moms, activists, and advocates, as well as scholars together, in a powerful challenge to the current attack on the poor. She moves the focus of debate away from eliminating welfare to eliminating poverty. Is it possible? She thinks so. Diane is a longtime welfare rights organizer, writer and former welfare recipient. Jordon Flaherty is a writer and organizer in New Orleans. His articles after Hurricane Katrina appeared in at least fifty publications around the world, and have been translated into German, Spanish, and Arabic. He has been interviewed by radio, TV, and print media from South Africa to Australia, Cuba, Lebanon and Argentina, including Al Jazeera, CNN, Air America and Agence France Press. He has spoken and given workshops on a number of topics over a hundred times in over twenty states, at schools, churches, mosques, and community centers as well as at protests, house parties, and even at a rave.In addition, he has written about politics and culture for several newspapers and magazines. He is an editor of the award-winning publication Left Turn Magazine (www.leftturn.org) Laura Garcia is editor of the Tribuno del Pueblo, a bi-lingual newspaper that gives voice to the poor and those fighting unjust laws that make the undocumented immigrant an animal of prey. She is also a co-editor of Teatro Chicana, a book that documents the experience of women in the Teatros of the 1970s. She was a founding member of Teatro de las Chicanas (an all-women) theater group in the 1970s, and a participant in the Chicano movement. More recently, she has reported on youth peace summits and struggles of the poor in the hemisphere. After returning from the border she wrote, "Who is Killing the Women of Juarez," a booklet. She was a delegate to the NGO Forum on Women in Beijing, China, where she was part of the first-ever Women of Color Caucus at an international convention.Raised in an immigrant farmworker family, her life experience has given her the determination to not forget her roots. Nacho Gonzalez participated in the Chicano Moratorium; was a founder of Junta, a coalition of barrio street gangs in East Los Angeles; a leader of the early student movement; and organized opposition to the Vietnam War in the Chicano community. He works with Chicago community organizers, provides research on gentrification and community development, uses popular education in his organizing. He is an accomplished speaker on Chicano history, community development and organizing. He has written numerous articles and research papers on organizing, folk culture, and community development. Rev. Floyd Harris is a minister in the forefront of the struggle against police brutality and for justice in Fresno, California. President of National Network in Action, he says, “You can't fight the government without a plan since once you attack, they will attack you.” Cheri Honkala is known nationally and internationally as a human rights activist and as National Coordinator of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign. For more information, click here.