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About the speakers: ELIZABETH DE LA VEGA, a veteran Justice Department attorney who served under Presidents Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II, knows a little bit about public service and about the law. Winner of numerous Attorney General's and community awards, including the prestigious Director's Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant US Attorney, she spent twenty-one years prosecuting violent gangsters and sophisticated white collar criminals in both Minneapolis and San Jose, where she was Branch Chief and a member of the Organized Crime Strike Force. She has also lectured frequently in Continuing Legal Education programs and taught law school courses in legal writing, trial skills, appellate advocacy and white collar crime. Ms. De la Vega is also the author of numerous publications including the New York Times best-selling book "United States v. George W. Bush". DAVID SWANSON is the creator of ImpeachCheney.org, the Washington Director of Democrats.com and of ImpeachPAC.org. He is co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition, creator of MeetWithCindy.org, creator of ResistinMarch.org, and a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, of the Backbone Campaign, of Voters for Peace, and of Filibuster for Peace. He was the organizer in 2006 of Camp Democracy. He serves on the steering committee of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice and on a working group of United for Peace and Justice. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a ...