- Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher who is best known for "Walden", a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, "Civil Disobedience", an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. In India, he is recognized as the "Father of the Nation" and October 2nd, his birthday, is commemorated each year as "Gandhi Jayanti", a national holiday. On 15 June 2007, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution declaring October 2 to be the "International Day of Non-Violence." As a British-educated lawyer, … - Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day was an American journalist turned social activist and devout member of the Catholic Church. She became known for her social justice campaigns in defense of the poor, forsaken, hungry and homeless. Alongside Peter Maurin, she founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933, espousing nonviolence, and hospitality for the impoverished and downtrodden. - 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. - Juanita Nelson
Juanita Nelson (b. 1923) is an American activist and tax resister. She co-founded the group Peacemakers in 1948. She is the author of "A Matter of Freedom and Other Writings" (1988). She worked on desegregation campaigns in Cincinnati, Washington D.C. and elsewhere and was an organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality. In 1942 she participated in some of the earliest sit-ins of the American Civil Rights Movement. - 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. - Karl Meyer
Karl Meyer (b. 1937) is an American Scientist pacifist, activist, Catholic worker and tax resister. Karl Meyer helped to further the study of Botulism by working with canning industries. - Gordon Kahl
Gordon Wendell Kahl was a tax protester best known for his involvement in two fatal shootouts with law enforcement officers in the United States in 1983. In 1967, Kahl wrote a letter to the Internal Revenue Service stating that he would no longer pay taxes to the, in his words, "Synagogue of Satan under the 2nd plank of the Communist Manifesto." During the 1970s, Kahl organized the first Texas chapter of the Posse Comitatus, … - Julia Butterfly Hill
Julia Butterfly Hill (born 18 February, 1974) is an American activist and environmentalist. Hill is best known for living in a 180-foot-tall, 600-year-old California Redwood tree for 738 days between 10 December, 1997 and 18 December, 1999. Hill lived barefoot in the tree, named "Luna", to prevent loggers of the Pacific Lumber Company from cutting it down. Hill lived in a small 4-by-6-foot shelter that she had built with help of other volunteers. - Karl Hess
Karl Hess (May 25, 1923-April 22, 1994), was a speechwriter, editor, political philosopher, hippie, welder, motorcycle racer, tax resister and libertarian. His career included stints on both the Republican right and the New Left before he became an anarcho-capitalist theorist. - A. J. Muste
Abraham Johannes Muste was a socialist active in the pacifist movement, labor movement and the US civil rights movement. - Russell Kanning
Russell Kanning is an American activist, Christian anarchist, member of the Free State Project, and publisher of the Keene Free Press. He has engaged in a number of creative, individual civil disobedience actions that protest government, including: * refusing to pay federal income tax * leafletting employees of an Internal Revenue Service office to urge them to resign. - Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925) (pronounced, occasionally, , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays. The offspring of a prominent political family, Gore is an outspoken critic of the American political establishment. Gore wrote the "The City and the Pillar" in 1948, which created controversy as the first major American novel to feature unambiguous homosexuality. - Wally Nelson
Wallace Floyd Nelson was an American civil rights activist and tax resister. Wally Nelson died at the age of 93 after more than a half-century of tax resistance and activism. He spent three and a half years in prison as a conscientious objector during World War II, was on the first of the “freedom rides” (then called the "Journey of Reconciliation") enforcing desegregation in 1947 and was the first national field organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality. - Claire Wolfe
Claire Wolfe is a survivalist-libertarian author and columnist. Some of her favored topics are gulching or homesteading, firearms, open source technology, and homeschooling. Her books include such titles as "179 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution" and "I Am Not a Number!". She also writes for a number of magazines, notably Backwoods Home Magazine and SWAT. A common subject in these articles is the fictional town of Hardyville, … - David McReynolds
David McReynolds (born October 25, 1929) is an American democratic socialist and pacifist activist who described himself as "a peace movement bureaucrat" during his 40-year career with "Liberation" magazine and the War Resisters League. He was born in Los Angeles to Charles and Elizabeth McReynolds. In 1951 he joined the Socialist Party of America (SPA) and in 1953 he graduated from UCLA with a degree in political science. McReynolds was openly gay in the 1950s. - Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting in which the reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become the central figure of the story itself. - 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". - John Woolman
John Woolman (October 19, 1720 - October 7, 1772) was an itinerant Quaker preacher, traveling throughout the American colonies, advocating against conscription, military taxation, and particularly slavery. - Carol Moore
Carol Moore (b. 1948) is an ethicist and systems theorist best known for her theories of secession and her analysis of Mahatma Gandhi's methods as an "intuitive systems theorist". She is considered a critic of the street violence tactics of some members of the anti-globalization movement. She is known in movements for separatism and secession. Her writings focus on governance in smaller political units. Moore is considered a feminist and a libertarian. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"' Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling"' on March 24, 1919) is an American poet. He is also the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house; the store and publishing company that published early literary works of the Beat generation, and helped to launch the careers of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. - Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for "Howl" (1956), a long poem about the self-destruction of his friends of the Beat Generation and what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in United States at the time. - Pete Seeger
Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919), almost universally known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist, and author. As a member of the Weavers, he had a string of hits, including a 1949 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight Irene" that topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. He was formerly a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America and a major contributor to folk and pioneer of protest music in the 1950s and the 1960s. - Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (April 17, 1854 - June 22, 1939) was the leading proponent of American individualist anarchism in the 19th century. - Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 - June 7, 1980) was an American writer and painter. He is known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. - Tony Serra
J. Tony Serra is an American civil rights attorney, activist and tax resister from San Francisco. - Norman Thomas
Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 - December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. - Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American writer based in New York City. He is noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known today: "V." (1963), "The Crying of Lot 49" (1966), … - Barbara Deming
Barbara Deming (1917 - 1984) was an American feminist and advocate of nonviolent social change. - Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was an American essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker, and activist. - Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. - John Hampden
John Hampden ("circa" 1595-1643) was an English politician, the eldest son of William Hampden, of Hampden House, Great Hampden in Buckinghamshire, a descendant of a very ancient family of that county, said to have been established there before the Norman conquest, and of Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell, and aunt of Oliver Cromwell. The town of Hamden, Connecticut is named in his honor. - Utah Phillips
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. - Kirkpatrick Sale
Kirkpatrick Sale is an independent scholar, author, technology critic, and self-proclaimed neo-Luddite. In 1995, Sale made a public bet with Kevin Kelly that by the year 2020 there would be a convergence of three disasters: global currency collapse, significant warfare between rich and poor, and environmental disasters of some significant size. The bet was turned into a claim on the FX prediction market, where the probability has hovered around 25%. - 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. - Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11 1922 - April 11 2007) (pronounced) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969), "Cat's Cradle" (1963), and "Breakfast of Champions" (1973). - 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., …
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