Sarah Lazare is a writer and organizer in the U.S. anti-war veteran and GI resistance movement, as a steering committee member of the Civilian-Soldier Alliance and an ally to Iraq Veterans Against the War. She is also an active union member and a graduate student at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where she is studying Arabic and learning about social movements in the Middle East and North Africa. Sarah is interested in connecting local struggles for racial, social, and economic justice with international movements for justice, peace, and liberation.