- 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. - 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. - John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980), was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for The Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, … - George Soros
George Soros (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is an American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. He peacefully promotes democracy in Eastern Europe. Currently, he is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. His support for the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, … - Al Sharpton
Al-Qaida fighters and other Sunni insurgents have largely scattered from the northern city of Mosul in the face of a U.S.-Iraqi sweep, fleeing to desert areas further south, an Iraqi commander said Sunday. He vowed the forces will not allow them to regroup. - Tom Hayden
Thomas Emmett "Tom" Hayden (born December 11, 1939) is an American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. He is the father of American actor Troy Garity. - Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in several movies. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with "Monster in Law", … - Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook April 24, 1954) is an African-American journalist, political activist, and former militant leader from Philadelphia. An early member of the Black Panther Party, Abu-Jamal was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner. Originally sentenced to death, Abu-Jamal's sentence, but not his conviction, was overturned in December 2001 by Judge William H. Yohn, Jr. - Robert Greenwald
Robert Greenwald (born August 28 1945 in New York, New York) is an American film director and political activist. Robert Greenwald is a producer, director and political activist. He is currently focused on making short viral videos, for example, his recent Fox Attacks' videos and "The Real McCain". These were seen by almost a million people in a matter of days. His most recent full length documentary, "Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers", … - Jack Abramoff
Jack Abramoff (born February 28, 1959) is a former American political lobbyist, a Republican political activist and businessman who was a central figure in a series of high-profile political scandals. Abramoff pled guilty on January 3, 2006, to three criminal felony counts in a Washington, D.C., federal court related to the defrauding of American Indian tribes and corruption of public officials. - Steve Earle
Steve Earle (born Stephen Fain Earle January 17, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, well known for his rock and country music, as well as for his political views. He is also a published writer, a political activist and has written and directed a play. In his early career, he was seen as a saviour of country music and labeled by some as the "new Bruce Springsteen". - Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26 1941, in Butte, Montana) is a prominent American writer, columnist, feminist, socialist and political activist. - Ward Churchill
Ward Churchill is a professor at the University of Colorado who has accumulated much press because of a scheduled appearance thankfully canceled at New York's Hamilton College. After discovering that he had written an essay whose title, Some People Push Back On the Justice of Roosting Chickens was a combination of Malcolm X's remark when asked by reporters for a comment on the assassination of John F. Kennedy , "... - Bob Geldof
Robert Frederick Xenon Geldof, KBE, known as Bob Geldof (born 5 October 1951), is an Irish singer, songwriter, actor and political activist - Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, a radio, film and theatre director, a radio and film producer and an actor in film and theatre, as well as a Grammy Award-winning radio personality. Welles first gained wide notoriety for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds". Adapted to sound like a contemporary news broadcast, … - 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. - Peter Camejo
Peter Miguel Camejo (born December 31, 1939) is an American financier, businessman, political activist, and author. In 2004, he was selected by independent candidate Ralph Nader as his vice-presidential running mate. Camejo was a candidate in the 2006 California gubernatorial election on the Green Party ticket. Camejo also ran in the 2003 California recall election where he placed 4th in a field of 135 candidates with 2.4 percent of the vote. - Maude Barlow
Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada's largest citizen's advocacy organization as well as the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works to stop commodification of the world's water. She is also a Director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco based research and education institution opposed to economic globalization. - Margaret Atwood
Many commend Margaret Atwood for her ability of depicting individual and worldly troubles of universal concern (Study Guide). Over thirty years, Atwood has written more than twenty volumes of verse, novels, and nonfiction. Although she is noted for all of these volumes, she is better known for her novels. In these work of fiction, themes such as feminism, mythology and power of language pervade. - Granny D
Granny D (born Ethel Doris Haddock, January 24, 1910) is an American politician and liberal political activist from the state of New Hampshire. Noted for her colorful character, warm personality, and advanced age, Haddock famously walked across the continental United States in 1999 to advocate campaign finance reform and in 2004 ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Judd Gregg for the U.S. Senate. - June Jordan
June Jordan (July 9, 1936-June 14, 2002) was an African-American bisexual political activist, writer, poet, and teacher, born in Harlem, New York, to Jamaican immigrants. - Jean Genet
Jean Genet (–), was a prominent, controversial French writer and later political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal; later in life, Genet wrote novels, plays, poems, and essays, including "Querelle de Brest", "The Thief's Journal", "Our Lady of the Flowers", "The Balcony", "The Blacks" and "The Maids". - Grace Paley
Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 -) is an American short story writer, poet, and political activist whose work has won a number of awards. - John Hopkins
John Hopkins (Hoppy) was trained as a physicist at Cambridge. He was influential in the UK Underground in the late 1960s in a number of areas: * A founder and member of the editorial board of the UK Underground paper "International Times" ("IT"). * Founded the UFO Club in London * Founded BIT, the information and agitprop arm of "IT" * Compiled and stencil duplicated the names, contact details and interests of all of London's 'movers & shakers'. - Leung Kwok-Hung
The Honourable Leung Kwok-hung, also known as Long Hair (長毛) is a political activist in Hong Kong, China. He was born on March 27, 1956 in British Hong Kong with family root in Zengcheng, Guangdong Province, China. He is currently a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing New Territories East. In 2006, he joined the League of Social Democrats. He is best known for his long, below shoulder length hair, his frequent public protests, … - Iyad Allawi
Dr. Iyad Allawi (born 1945) is an Iraqi politician, and was the interim Prime Minister of Iraq prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A prominent Iraqi political activist who lived in exile for almost 30 years, the politically secular Shia Muslim became a member of the Iraq Interim Governing Council, which was established by U.S.-led coalition authorities following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. - Bill Ayers
Bill Ayers (b. 1944) is a former member of the Weather Underground who is now a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. - Craig Murray
Craig Murray (born October, 1958) is a British political activist, university rector and formerly the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Uzbekistan. While in office, he accused the Karimov administration of human rights abuses, a step which, he argues, was against the wishes of the British government and the reason for his removal. Murray complained to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in November 2002, January or early February 2003, … - Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José García Márquez, also known as Gabo is a Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gabriel García Márquez has lived mostly in Mexico and Europe and currently spends much of his time in Mexico City. Widely credited with introducing the global public to magical realism, he has secured both significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success. - Bianca Jagger
Bianca Jagger is a prominent international human rights advocate. For over twenty years she has campaigned for social and economic justice and environmental protection throughout the world. She was born in Nicaragua, Bianca Perez-Mora Macias , on May 2 1950. In the mid-sixties she left her native country armed with a French Government scholarship to study Political Science in Paris. - Lenora Fulani
Lenora B. Fulani twice ran for President of the U.S. as an independent, making history in 1988 when she became the first woman and African American to get on the ballot in all fifty states. Dr. Fulani is currently a leading activist in the Reform Party and chairs the Committee for a Unified Independent Party. She can be reached at 800-288-3201 or at http://www.Fulani.org. - Eamonn McCann
Eamonn McCann (b. 1943 Derry, Northern Ireland) is an Irish journalist, author, and political activist. - Howard Rich
Howard Rich is a libertarian political activist and real estate developer in New York City. Rich's political activity is focused on financing ballot initiatives in numerous states. Issues include restrictions on regulatory taking and eminent domain, term limits for judges and legislators, and state spending limits modeled after Colorado's controversial Taxpayer Bill of Rights. - Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. She is known for her penetrating insight; her works deal with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil. - Pamela Harriman
Pamela Churchill Harriman (20 March 1920 - 5 February 1997) was an English-born socialite who was married and linked to important and powerful men. In later life, she became a political activist for the Democratic Party and a diplomat. Her only child, Winston Churchill, is named after his famous grandfather. - Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, formerly Kath Walker) (3 November 1920-16 September 1993) was an Australian poet, Political activist, artist and educator. She was also a campaigner for Aboriginal rights. Oodgeroo was best known for her poetry, and was the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse. Oodgeroo was born in Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island) in Moreton Bay (east of Brisbane), … - Harriet Shaw Weaver
Harriet Shaw Weaver (1 September 1876 - 14 October 1961) was a political activist and a journal editor. She also became the patron of James Joyce. Harriet Shaw Weaver was born in Frodsham, Cheshire, the daughter of Frederic Poynton Weaver, a doctor, and Mary Wright, who had inherited a fortune from her father. She was educated privately by a governess, initially in Cheshire and later in Hampstead. - Alan Senitt
Alan Senitt was a British political activist whose murder in Washington, DC garnered media attention. He had just graduated with an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from the prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS, at the University of London. From Pinner, North London, Senitt was a former chairman of the Union of Jewish Students. He stood as the Labour Party candidate in Edgware, North London, in the May 2006 local elections. - Thierry Meyssan
Thierry Meyssan is a French journalist and political activist. He is the author of investigations into the extreme right wing (particularly about the National Front Militias, which are the object of a parliamentary investigation and caused a separation of the extreme right wing party), as well as into the Catholic Church (Opus Dei, for example), and the discrimination of homosexuality, among others. Meyssan is best known for his controversial book 9/11: The Big Lie, … - Mohsen Sazegara
Mohsen Sazegara is an Iranian journalist and political activist. Dr. Sazegara held several high ranking positions during the early years of the Islamic Revolution, such as deputy prime minister in political affairs, deputy minister for heavy industry, deputy chairman of the budget and planning department and many more before becoming disillusioned with the government in 1989 and pushing for reforms.
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