1. Stanley Sheinbaum and his wife Betty (not pictured) were honored for their peace activism & Democratic Party Progressive salons over many years. 2. 2008 Honoree Robert Greenwald, founder of Brave New Films, spoke about the amazing opportunity we have now to produce information and disseminate it through the web. 3. Phil Donahue, left, and Ellen Spiro, right, filmmakers for “Body of War” with Cathy Smith, center, mother of Thomas Young, the Iraq war veteran featured in “Body of War.” 4. Daniel Ellsberg paid tribute to Stanley and Betty Sheinbaum, thanking them personally for their support during his imprisonment and trial following the leak of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. photos by Margaret Molloy
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