- Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Lee Miller Sheehan (born July 10, 1957) is an Irish American anti-war activist, whose son, Casey Sheehan, was killed during his service in the Iraq War on April 4, 2004, aged 24. She attracted international attention in August 2005 for her extended demonstration at a peace camp outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch garnering her both support and criticism. In May 2007, Sheehan officially ended her involvement as an anti-war activist, … - Dennis Kucinich
Dennis John Kucinich (born October 8, 1946) is an American politician of the Democratic party and a candidate for President of the United States in both 2004 and 2008. Kucinich currently represents the 10th District of Ohio in the United States House of Representatives. His district includes most of western Cleveland, as well as such suburbs as Parma and Cuyahoga Heights. - Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American director and producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine", two of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. He is a vocal critic of globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. - Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. - Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. She is a soprano with a three-octave vocal range and a distinctively rapid vibrato. Many of her songs are topical and deal with social issues. - Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly (b. 1954) of Chicago, Illinois is an American peace activist, pacifist, three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness. - Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon (1951-) is an American journalist, media critic and antiwar activist. A longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), Solomon is also the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers and analysts which works pro-actively to provide alternative sources for journalists. His weekly column, "Media Beat", has been in national syndication since 1992. - Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright, best known as author of the bestseller, "A People's History of the United States". Zinn's philosophy incorporates ideas from Marxism, anarchism, socialism, and social democracy. Since the 1960s, he has been active in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements in the United States. - Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin is Founding Director of Global Exchange. For over twenty years, Medea has supported human rights and social justice struggles around the world. Medea is a leading activist in the peace movement and helped bring together the groups forming the coalition United for Peace and Justice (see www.unitedforpeace.org ). She is also the co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace, a women's group that has been organizing creative actions against the war and occupation of Iraq. - Jello Biafra
Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958) is more widely known by the stage name Jello Biafra. He first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band the Dead Kennedys. After his time with the band concluded, he became more directly involved with political activism and took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, founded in 1979 by him and East Bay Ray. - Michael Franti
Michael Franti (born April 21, 1966, in Oakland, California) is an American poet, musician, and composer of African, American Indian, Italian, and German descent. Franti is the creator and driving force behind Michael Franti & Spearhead, a band that blends hip hop with a variety of other styles including funk, reggae, jazz, folk, and rock. He is also an outspoken supporter for a wide spectrum of peace and social justice issues. - Lyndon Larouche
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (born September 8, 1922 in Rochester, New Hampshire) is an American political activist and founder of several political organizations in the United States and elsewhere, jointly referred to as the LaRouche movement. He is known as a perennial candidate for President of the United States, having run in eight elections since 1976, once as a U.S. Labor Party candidate and seven times as a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. - Jeremy Glick
Jeremy Matthew Glick is an author and activist, best known for his appearance on "The O’Reilly Factor" on 4 February 2003. Glick is a co-author of the book, "Another World Is Possible". In early 2003, Glick signed his name to an advertisement that protested United States-led military action in Afghanistan and compared the deaths from the attacks to fatalities incurred in prior U.S. military actions. - Marla Ruzicka
Marla Ruzicka (December 31 1976 - April 16, 2005) was an activist-turned-aid worker. She developed a unique approach to advocacy for civilian victims of war: she insisted that combatant governments had a legal and moral responsibility to compensate the families of civilians killed or injured in military conflicts. She and her Iraqi translator, Faiz Ali Salim, were killed by a suicide car bombing on Airport Road in Baghdad on April 16, 2005. - Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie (April 10, 1979 - March 16, 2003) was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. She was killed when she tried to obstruct an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Caterpillar D9 armoured bulldozer operating in Hai as-Salam, a Palestinian area of Rafah, close to the border with Egypt, an area the IDF had designated a security zone. The circumstances of Corrie's death are disputed. - Ashley Smith
Ashley Smith is a U.S. marxist activist, journalist and editor. He is a paid organizer for the International Socialist Organization, was the Vermont campaign coordinator for the 2004 election campaign of Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo, and helped found the Burlington Anti-War Coalition in opposition to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the Iraq War. - Frank Dorrel
Frank Dorrel is an American peace activist. A former United States Air Force personnel, he is now a Veteran for Peace. At the time of this writing (late 2006), Frank Dorrel states he is a member of the Green Party. He publishes and distributes "Addicted To War", written by Joel Andreas. He assembled and distributes a film entitled "What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy: The War Against The Third World". - David Dellinger
David Dellinger was a renowned pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change, and one of the most influential American radicals in the 20th century. He was most famous for being one of the Chicago Seven, a group of protesters whose disruption of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago led to charges of "conspiracy" and "crossing state lines with the intention of inciting a riot". - Emily Greene Balch
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 - January 9, 1961) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John Mott), notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into an affluent family, she was amongst the first graduates of Bryn Mawr College in 1889. - Rini Templeton
Lucille Corinne Templeton, better known as "Rini" Templeton, was an American graphic artist, sculptor, and political activist. She was most active in Mexico and the Southwestern United States, although she also volunteered in Cuba and Nicaragua after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and the electoral victory of the F.S.L.N. Although her name is not well-known, her uncredited work has been used on countless fliers, posters, and banners for the labor, … - Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin was an American libertarian socialist speaker and writer, and founder of the "Social Ecology" school of libertarian socialist and ecological thought. He is the author of two dozen books on politics, philosophy, history, and urban affairs as well as ecology. Bookchin was a radical anti-capitalist and vocal advocate of the decentralisation of society. His writings on libertarian municipalism, a theory of face-to-face, grassroots democracy, … - Ben Manski
Ben Manski (born July 16, 1974) is an American attorney, organizer, activist with the Green Party, Executive Director of Liberty Tree: Foundation for the Democratic Revolution and editor of the Liberty Tree Journal. Ben Manski, as a member of the Wisconsin Green Party, served as co-chair of the Green Party of the United States from 2001 through 2004. Professionally, Manski worked on the staffs of a number of environmental, social justice, pro-democracy, … - David Rovics
David Rovics (born April 10, 1967) is an indie singer/songwriter and outspoken grassroots political protestor from the United States. His music is most accurately described as protest-folk and concerns topical subjects such as the 2003 Iraq war, anti-globalisation and social justice issues. Rovics is an outspoken critic of not only George W. Bush, but also figures like John Kerry and the Democratic Party as a whole. He is vocal on these subjects on stage, … - Alexander Berkman
Alexander Berkman (November 21 1870 - June 28 1936) was a Russian immigrant who became an American writer, radical anarchist, and would-be assassin. Berkman was a leading member of the anarchist movement. He was the lover and close associate of Emma Goldman, a Lithuanian-born anarchist with whom he collaborated frequently and organized civil rights and anti-war campaigns. - Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins was a prominent political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate. Cousins was born in Union City, New Jersey. At age 11, he was misdiagnosed with tuberculosis and placed in a sanatorium. Despite this, he was an athletic youth, and he claimed that as a young boy, he had “set out to discover exuberance.” After graduating from Union Hill High School, he received a Bachelor’s degree from Teachers College, … - Danny Lebern Glover
Actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover has been a commanding presence on screen, stage and television for more than 25 years. As an actor, his film credits range from the blockbuster Lethal Weapon franchise to smaller independent features, some of which Glover also produced. - Jessica Mathews
Jessica Tuchman Mathews (b. 1946) is the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign policy think tank in Washington D.C. She has held the post since 1997. Her career includes posts in the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism. - Harry Belafonte
Harold George Belafonete, Jr. (born March 1, 1927 in New York, New York, United States) is a musician, actor and social activist of Jamaican ancestry. One of the most successful Jamaican musicians in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style in the 1950s. Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O". - Mark Hatfield
Mark Odom Hatfield (born July 12, 1922) is a former United States Senator and Governor of Oregon. He is a member of the Republican Party. - Ammon Hennacy
Ammon Hennacy was an American pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement and a Wobbly, and was known for establishing the "Joe Hill House of Hospitality" in Salt Lake City, Utah and for never paying taxes. - Frances Crowe
Frances Crowe (b. Carthage, Missouri, 1919) is a prominent American peace activist and pacifist from the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. She holds degrees from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri (1939) and Syracuse University (1941), and conducted graduate work Columbia University and The New School for Social Research. Crowe worked in a factory during World War II. In 1945, following the bombing of civilian populations in Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, … - Brian Willson
S. Brian Willson, (born July 4 1941), is a United States Air Force (USAF) veteran who became a prominent anti-war activist. Willson served, from 1966 to 1970, in the USAF, including several months as a combat security officer in Vietnam. He left the Air Force as a Captain. He subsequently became a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Veterans For Peace (Humboldt Bay Chapter 56, California). Upon completion of Law School at American University in Washington, D.C., … - Colman McCarthy
Colman McCarthy is a journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, and long-time peace activist. From 1969 to 1997, he wrote columns for The Washington Post. His topics ranged from politics, religion, and sports to education, poverty, and peacemaking. The Washingtonian magazine called him "the liberal conscience of The Washington Post." The Smithsonian magazine said he is "a man of profound spiritual awareness." He has written for The New Yorker, The Nation, The Progressive, Atlantic Monthly, … - Michael Berg
Michael Berg (b. March 3, 1945) is a former candidate for Congress in the state of Delaware on the Green Party ticket in the 2006 midterm elections. He is most well-known as the father of Nick Berg, one of the first American civilians to be abducted and executed by insurgents in Iraq. Michael Berg was born in Philadelphia. Berg earned a Bachelor of Arts in English literature and a teaching certificate at Bucknell University in 1967, … - Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan, S.J. (born May 9, 1921) is a poet, American peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. Daniel and his brother Philip performed non-violent protests against war and were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. - Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1929. - Philip Berrigan
Philip Berrigan was an internationally renowned American peace activist, Christian anarchist and former Roman Catholic priest. Along with his brother Daniel Berrigan, he was for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for actions against war. - Eli Pariser
Eli Pariser (born December 17, 1980 in Lincolnville, Maine) is Executive Director of MoveOn.org. Pariser's rise to prominence as a political activist began when he and college student David H. Pickering launched an online petition calling for a multilateral response to the attacks of September 11th. In less than a month, half a million people had signed the petition and in November of that year, … - Ahmed Shawki
Ahmed Shawki is an Arab American socialist activist and journalist, the editor of the "International Socialist Review" and a leader of the International Socialist Organization. He also serves on the steering committee of the National Council of Arab-Americans. - Bill Madden
Bill Madden is an American singer-songwriter, also regarded as an indie and an activist. Madden is best known for his environmental song and music video "Gone", a "metaphorical environmental warning alert" which sparked debate internationally and aired on U.S. and Canadian music video television networks and film festivals as well as won numerous awards and commendations. Madden's music is typically labeled as alternative folk rock or neofolk.
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