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- ↑ San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, December 7, 2007: '[Greg] Palast says his desire to expose class-warfare stories is rooted in his upbringing in the "ass-end of Los Angeles," a neighborhood wedged between a power plant and a dump. Kids in the neighborhood had two choices, he said: go to Vietnam or work in the auto plant. "We were the losers," he said. He was saved from the war by a favorable draft number. "A lot of people didn't make it out. Because I made it out, and my sister (Geri, a former Clinton administration assistant secretary of labor) made it out, I feel I have this obligation to tell these stories on behalf of all of those people who didn't make it out."
- ↑ Geri Palast Archived June 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2001-07-26. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Israel Action NetworkStaff - Israel Action Network". israelactionnetwork.org.
- ↑ "Israel Action NetworkAbout Us - Israel Action Network". israelactionnetwork.org.