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Luke Cole
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S.F. Mayor's Office of
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Carl Anthony
Co-Founder, Urban Habitat
Romel Pascual
Mayor's Office, City of Los Angeles
Associate Director of the Environment
Arnold Perkins
Alameda Public Health
Department (retired)
Gabriela Sandoval
Department of Sociology,
U.C. Santa Cruz
Tim Thomas
East Bay Habitat for Humanity
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Photo: (Right) United States Social Forum (USSF) workshop in Atlanta, 2007.
Front cover collage: (left) participants at Transportation Justice educational event Dec.
5, 2005, (center) Jackie Tsou, HUD fellow at Urban Habitat, © 2005 Scott Braley;
(right) a UFCW supporter of Smithfield workers at educational picket at USSF,
© 2007 Brooke Anderson; (far right) participant at the 3rd National Immigrant and
Refugee Rights Training Institute, © 2006 NNIRR. Collage by Guillermo Prado.
Back cover photo: Second grade students at Rosa Parks Elementary School
©1997 Margot Pepper.