Other Speakers:

ELAINE BROWER is the mother of a Marine recently
returned from Fallujah. She is an activist against the war with World
Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime and Military Families Speak Out.

Elaine’s story and interviews have appeared in the NY Daily News, NY
Newsday, NY Times, and she has appeared on Good Morning America, Montel
Williams Show, NBC Nightly News, NY1, NOVA TV from the Netherlands, TV
Asahi from Tokyo, and numerous radio programs nationwide.

Anastasia Gomes is a 22 year-old native New Yorker, born to Greek and Indian
immigrants. A prolific writer and avid reader all her life, Anastasia
studied journalism in hopes of bettering the world by shedding light on its
injustices. Through her school’s study abroad program Anastasia traveled
to India
to research the media’s effect on the developing world’s social
identity. Her passion for human rights has found an outlet with the World Can’t
Wait where she was given the chance to actually help change the problems that
she had always been disturbed by, but in the past, had felt helpless in the
face of. Today she utilizes her journalism skills with the World Can’t
Wait’s National Press team, informing others who also feel isolated
in their frustration over issues like the war. She currently
teaches English to Latin American immigrants in the Bronx
and also works as a professional freelance photographer. At the top of the long
list of people she says have made the biggest impact on her are; Ghandi,
Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky and Rachel Corrie.

Leah Fishbein is a visual arts student at Occidental College in Los Angeles.  Born and raised in the heart of Atlanta, GA, she is currently transitioning to the pace of the west coast, throwing herself into her studio art and history studies.  She is sticking with the academic world with the sole goal of becoming even more of a person who contributes to changing the world in radical ways in the future.  21, outspoken and outgoing, Leah is an active student organizer with World Can’t Wait in LA.  Instead of taking up the usual internship last summer, she spent the break volunteering in the World Can’t Wait national office in NYC, and continues to write regularly for
worldcantwait.org.

She got her start at a powerful demonstration against the invasion of Iraq at the burial place of MLK, Jr., before the US attacks began, and was, only weeks later, quickly moving to lead high school and college student walkouts, organize at high schools in protest against the war all over the metro area, and learn — A LOT — about how the world works and about the United States’ role in shaping history.

Several years later, as the Bush regime and the Christian right turned up their attacks on women’s reproductive rights in unprecedented ways, Leah delved into fighting to increase resistance to these attacks, at colleges and universities and in general across the country, through street theater, writing, and other forms.  She is especially invested in addressing this area of the Bush Regime’s program, as it means much for the future of U.S. society.