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Michael B. Chesson, Founding Professor and Dean, The American College of History and Legal Studies, Salem, NH.
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Donna R. Gabaccia, Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History and Director, Immigration Research History Center, University of Minnesota.

Joanne F. Goldstein Secretary of the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
James Green, Professor of History and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
Robert Haynes, President Emeritus, Massachusetts AFL-CIO
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Rose Imperato, Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition
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Nelson Lichtenstein, MacArthur Foundation Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy, University of California Santa Barbara

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Robert J. S. Ross, Ph.D., Director of International Studies Stream and Professor of Sociology, Clark University
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Claire Sheridan, Librarian, American Textile History Museum
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James Snow, Northeast Regional Director, AFL-CIO

Chris Tilly, Director of UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and Professor in the Urban Planning Department.
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