Lori Bradford: ex-psychiatric inmate, researcher and activist against psychiatry and for Lesbian/Gay and women's rights. Formerly with feminist news journal Big Mama Rag, Lori lives in San Francisco and works with Counterprobe, a group researching the hidden history behind AIDS. Lori also works with Mental Patients Opposed to Psychiatry, and is co-author of The Misery Business, an unpublished monograph about psychiatric oppression.
Pat Cary: personal friend of Mae Brussell
Steve Hassna: ex-paratrooper, ex-tunnel-rat, ex-Drill Sergeant, Steve is an out spoken activist for Veterans rights and against war. As a poet and public speaker, he is an active part of the Vietnam Speaker's Alliance and the National Committee Against Registration and the Draft.
Barbara Honegger: an ex-staff member and policy analyst for the Reagan administration; Barbara quit in disgust. She was the first to produce evidence of the early (and treasonous) involvement of George Bush and others, in secret arms negotiations with Iran. During these secret meetings, the Reagan negotiators sought and obtained a delay in the release of American hostages until the Reagan inauguration in l980. Barbara's work has appeared in In These Times. She has spoken on numerous radio and television talk shows. The results of her research have recently been published as a book, The October Surprise, (Tudor Publishing, NY & LA.)
John Judge: independent investigator, author, and historian, John has worked for 20 years to expose US government involvement in mind control and murder. John Judge has also investigated the history of Fascism and political assassination and cover-up from Nazi Germany to John F. Kennedy to Jonestown, Guyana. His work exposes US plans for concentration camps and genocide, here and abroad. He has had articles published in Critique, Utne Reader, Madness Network News, and Overthrow. and has spoken on these topics on radio, television, and in public forums since l968. Formerly a military and Veterans counselor with Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, at the time of this conference John was based in Washington, DC and working with Veterans Against Military Psychiatry and SOSGI Assistance Project.
John serves as Archivist and Curator of the newly created Mae Brussell Research Center. (P. O. Box 8431 Santa Cruz, CA 95061) The non-profit Center, to which late investigative journalist Mae Brussell donated her massive collection of books, manuscripts, and work in progress, is dedicated to continuing as well as to expanding the scope of her wide-ranging investigations.
Richard Gallyôt: investigative journalist, and formerly an institutionalized foster child. Richard began monitoring the People's Temple in 1976 (years before the massacre) after discovering that they had been entrusted with the guardianship of an inordinate number of foster children. His soon forthcoming book on Jonestown will encompass interviews with virtually all of the survivors of the Jonestown massacre, as well as the Larry Layton trial, which he covered for KPFA.
Brett McCabe: legal secretary, Socialist Labor Party activist
Richard Whitney: Socialist Labor Party activist, friend of Brett's.
Richard Williams: Native American activist, Vietnam-era Veteran. Richard works as a Human Services Counselor with Swords to Plowshares, a Veterans support organization. He was trained in the traditional ways of the Native Americans by medicine people, and serves as a spiritual advisor to Native American inmates in the California prison system; in San Quentin and other prisons. He is a representative and spokesperson for the International Indian Treaty Council, and is active with the Big Mountain Support Group.