Committee to Free Lori Berenson

The Committee to Free Lori Berenson, "a project of the Committee for Inter-American Human Rights, was formed in order to defend the basic human rights that Lori has been wrongfully denied while she was defending the rights of others. Our goal is to pressure the United States government to act to secure Lori's release from her wrongful incarceration, and to spread the word about the human rights abuses that still occur in Perú."

Steering Committee
Accessed July 2008:


 * Blase Bonpane and Theresa Bonpane - Directors, Office of the Americas
 * Kristen Gardner - social activitist and personal friend of Lori
 * James Lafferty - Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild (Los Angeles Chapter)
 * Bob McIndoe - Managing Director, Emerson Investment Management, Inc.
 * Grahame Russell - Director, Rights Action
 * Freddie Schrider - former human rights activist for Guatemala Human Rights Commission

Advisory Board
Accessed July 2008:


 * Rabbi Balfour Brickner (deceased August 2005) - Stephen Wise Free Synogogue, NYC
 * Noam Chomsky - Institute Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
 * Blanche Wiesen Cook - Distinguished Professor of History, John Jay College -- CUNY
 * David Dellinger - moral dissenter and 60's activist
 * Geraldine Ferraro - former U.S. Congresswoman and Vice-Presidential candidate
 * Matthew Goldstein - Chancellor, City University of New York (CUNY)
 * Stephen Jay Gould (deceased May 2002) - Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard University
 * Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton - Archdiocese of Detroit
 * Stanley H. Kaplan - prominent education specialist and humanitarian
 * Reverend James Lawson - Holman United Methodist Church, Los Angeles
 * Maurice Paprin (deceased November 2005) - Founder, Fund for New Priorities in America
 * Katha Pollitt - Associate Editor, The Nation
 * Reverend Lucius Walker - Director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace, NYC
 * Elie Wiesel - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities, Boston University and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
 * Peter Yarrow - musician and song writer (Peter, Paul, and Mary)

Contact

 * 320 East 25th Street, #2AA
 * New York, NY 10010
 * Web: http://www.freelori.org