Bruce "Utah" Phillips (b. May 15 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and self-described "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest". He describes the struggles of labor unions and the power of direct action. He often promotes the Industrial Workers of the World in his music, actions, and words. Utah Phillips' given name is Bruce Phillips. A fan of T. Texas Tyler, Phillips adopted the stage name U. Utah Phillips.

Starhawk (born Miriam Simos in St. Paul, Minnesota on June 17, 1951) is an American writer, activist, anarchist and witch. She is well known as a theorist of Paganism and is one of the foremost popular voices of ecofeminism. Starhawk lives in San Francisco, where she works with Reclaiming, a tradition of Witchcraft that she co-founded in the late 1970s. She is internationally known as a trainer in nonviolence and direct action, …

Jeff "Free" Luers is an environmental activist from Los Angeles, California, currently serving a twenty-two year prison sentence for arson. Recently, on February 14, 2007, The Court of Appeals ruled that Jeff Luers' sentence will be revisited, with a possible 15 years taken off the original sentencing. In 2000 he set fire to three SUVs at Romania Chevrolet dealership in Eugene, Oregon as a protest against excessive consumption and global warming along with Craig Marshall, …

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, …

Rodney Adam Coronado is an American eco-anarchist and animal rights activist who has been convicted of arson, conspiracy and other crimes in connection with his activism but now advocates non-violent action. He is an advocate and former activist for the Animal Liberation Front and a spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front.

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.

William Dudley Haywood (February 4, 1869-May 18, 1928), better known as Big Bill Haywood, was a prominent figure in the American labor movement. Haywood was a leader of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM), a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and a member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America. During the first two decades of the 20th century, he was involved in several important labor battles, …

Craig Rosebraugh is an environmental activist who has been associated with the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and who has served as a spokesman for both groups' press office. Rosebraugh owned and operated a vegan bakery in Portland, Oregon, to which ELF and ALF members would anonymously send claims for direct action events. Upon receiving such a claim, Rosebraugh would judge its authenticity, then issue a press release on his website, …

Ann Hansen is a Canadian anarchist and former member of Direct Action, a guerrilla organization famous for the 1982 bombing of a Litton Industries plant, which made components for American cruise missiles. She was sentenced to life in prison, but was released after eight years. Hansen wrote of her experiences in her 2002 book, "Direct Action: Memoirs Of An Urban Guerrilla". She now works as a freelance writer in Ontario.

Angie Zelter (b. June 5 1951 -) is a political activist, who describes herself as a 'global citizen' and is the founder of a number of international campaign groups including "Trident Ploughshares" and the "International Women's Peace Service". She specialises in initiating non-violent direct action campaigns and has been arrested over 100 times in Belgium, Canada, England, Malaysia, Norway, Poland and Scotland, serving 16 prison sentences.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (December 25 1876 - September 11 1948) was an Indian Muslim politician and leader of the All India Muslim League who founded Pakistan and served as its first Governor-General. He is officially known in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Azam (Urdu: قائد اعظم - "Great Leader") and "Baba-e-Qaum" ("Father of the Nation.") His birth and death anniversaries are national holidays in Pakistan.

Lindis Percy (born 1944, Leeds) is a British peace campaigner, Quaker and founding member and joint coordinator of the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases. She is a trained nurse, midwife and health visitor and has worked for the National Health Service her entire working life. As an activist, she uses non violent direct action and civil disobedience and has been active protesting since 1979 when cruise missiles was to be deployed at Greenham Common.

Gerald Richard Hannah (also known as Gerry Useless) is the bass player for the punk rock group The Subhumans and was also a member of the militant environmental group "Direct Action", also known as the Squamish Five (in the mainstream press) and the Vancouver Five (in the alternative press). Squamish Five carried out a political campaign of "direct actions", …

The Reverend Fr. Thomas J. Hagerty was an American Roman Catholic priest from New Mexico, and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Hagerty had been a Marxist before his ordination in 1892 and was later influenced by anarcho-syndicalism. His formal association with the church ended when he was suspended by his archbishop for urging miners in Colorado to revolt during his tour of mining camps in 1903, …

Mitch Snyder (1946 - July 3 or 4, 1990) was an American advocate for the homeless. He was the subject of a 1986 biopic "Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story". Snyder worked in advertising on Madison Avenue in New York City in the early 1960s. At some point he left his wife and children and started hitchhiking west. Police found him in a stolen vehicle, and he was arrested and convicted of grand theft auto. Snyder served two years in federal prison, 1970-1972, …

Frankie Trull is an American science advocate, lobbyist and educator. Trull attended Boston University in the 1970s then worked at Tufts University while studying for a Master's Degree in sociology. At Tufts she was among the founding members of the Research Animal Alliance, which later became the National Association for Biomedical Research, …

Arne Dekke Eide Næss is widely regarded as the foremost Norwegian philosopher of the 20th century, and is the founder of deep ecology. His philosophical work focused on Spinoza, Buddhism and Gandhi. He was the youngest person to be appointed full professor at the University of Oslo. Næss, himself an avid mountaineer, is also known as the uncle of mountaineer and businessman Arne Næss Jr. (1937–2004) and the younger brother of shipowner Erling Dekke Næss.

James John Bell (1969) co-founded the non-profit advocacy communications organization smartMeme in 2003. SmartMeme's clients include national nonprofits, like Greenpeace and the Breast Cancer Fund, as well as local grassroots organizations. BenBella Books published Bell's afterword to the environmental science fiction classic The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner.

Donald Grant (1888 - June 9, 1970) was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World in Sydney, Australia, a member of the Sydney Twelve charged with conspiracy in 1916, and later a member of the Australian Labor Party who was elected to Sydney City Council, appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, and elected to the Australian Senate in 1943 where he served for sixteen years.

Clifford Blake "Cliff" Pearson is an American activist from Dallas, Texas who began his career in nonviolent direct action, civil disobedience, social protest, and organizing in 1977 – giving him nearly 30 years experience by 2007. He has worked with, or co-founded several activist organizations, including national and international groups. Pearson has nearly 20 years experience in the communications industry, having worked in broadcasting, alternative news, …

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