Endorsements
- William “Dock” Walls, former independent candidate for Governor of Illinois.
- Ron Meissen, senior director of Environment, Health and Safety for Baxter International; winner of the 2008 Spirit of the Summit Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for his leadership in advancing awareness and action in response to global climate change.
- Roy Singham, founder and chairman of Thoughtworks, Inc.
- Ellen Hodgson Brown, J.D., author of Web of Debt, Nature’s Pharmacy and other works.
- Dayna Conner a local food systems community organizer.
- William P. Kreml, Ph.D, Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the University of South Carolina and author of The Middle-Class Burden and The 21st Century Left, among other works.
- Leland G. Stauber, Ph.D, Harvard, and author of Land Ownership and the Social System, among other works.
- Dr. Anne Scheetz of the Illinois Single-Payer Coalition
- Hugh Muldoon, Director of Gaia House-Interfaith Center, Carbondale, Illinois
- Barb McKasson, Southern Illinois environmental activist.
- Tanya Austin, Iraq Veterans Against the War.
- Cherokee Tribal Council of Illinois