- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was the thirty-second President of the United States. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945, and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. A central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war, … - Lewis Jones
Lewis Jones, writer, and political activist of the left, (1897 - January 27, 1939) was born in Clydach Vale in industrialized South Wales. Although his novels are more studied by academics now than by general readers, Jones occupies an honourable place in the history of left-wing politics in Britain, and in the ranks of socialist writers. Like many young activists of his generation he attended the Central Labour College in London from 1923-25, … - Chummy Fleming
John William 'Chummy' Fleming was a pioneer unionist, agitator for the unemployed, and anarchist in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. "Chummy" Fleming was instrumental in starting May Day celebrations and marches in Melbourne. He was a member of the Melbourne Anarchist Club which formed on 1 May 1886, the first formal anarchist organisation in Australia. In 1899 he was elected to the Trades Hall Eight Hours Day committee and to the executive of Trades Hall Council. - Frank Eugene Corder
Frank Eugene Corder (May 26, 1956-September 12, 1994) crashed a stolen Cessna 150 onto the South Lawn of the White House early on September 12, 1994, apparently trying to hit the building; he was the sole casualty. An unemployed truck driver and U.S. Army veteran from Perry Point, Maryland, Corder had lost his wife to cancer several weeks prior to the incident, which is thought to have driven him towards suicide. - George Breitman
George Breitman (1916 - 1986) was an American communist. Breitman was born in a working-class neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. After graduating from high school, Breitman found work in the Civilian Conservation Corps, and later in the Works Progress Administration. By 1935, he had joined the Trotskyist movement as a member of the Spartacus Youth League, and then as a member of the Workers Party of America. - Julio González
Julio González is a Cuban-born warehouse worker and arsonist responsible for the Happy Land Fire that killed 87 people in the Bronx, New York City, on March 25, 1990. It is one of the largest mass murders in United States history. - Davis Rich Dewey
Davis Rich Dewey, Ph. D. (1858-1942), American economist and statistician, was born at Burlington, Vermont, on 7 April 1858. He was educated at the University of Vermont and at Johns Hopkins University, and afterwards became professor of economics and statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was chairman of the state board on the question of the unemployed (1895), member of the Massachusetts commission on public, … - Lauri Viita
Lauri Viita (born 17 December 1916, died 22 December 1965) was a poet hailing from Pispala district of Tampere, Finland. - Günter Parche
Günter Parche was the 38-year-old unemployed German lathe operator, who on April 30 1993 stabbed tennis player Monica Seles, then ranked No. 1 in the world, with a boning knife during a tournament in Hamburg. The incident occurred during a quarter-final match between Seles and Magdalena Maleeva, in which Seles was leading 6-4, 4-3. Seles had just sat down in her chair during a break between games when Parche ran from the stands to the edge of the court, … - Janez Zavrl
Janez Zavrl is a Slovenian footballer who's currently unemployed. He's been caped 23 times for the Slovenian under 21 national football team. Janez can play both central defender and central midfielder, and is a part of a big and powerful football-family in his native Slovenia. Janez came to Brann in 2006, but was never a success at Brann Stadion and Brann decided not to re-new his contract in August 2006. - Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca
Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca (August 10, 1894 - August 16, 1946) was an American labor activist who particularly represented women workers in the garment industry. She was an early organizer for Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) after its split from the more conservative United Garment Workers of America in 1914. She became a board member in 1916 and in 1917 became its first full-time female organizer. - Charles Edgar Edgett
Colonel Charles Edgar Edgett was the warden of the British Columbia Penitentiary (1929-1931), the Chief Constable of the Vancouver Police Department (1931-1933), and an active anticommunist and opponent of organized labour in Vancouver, Canada. Colonel Edgett briefly served in the North West Mounted Police before receiving training as a veterinarian (giving him the nickname "Doc"). - Jeff Giuliano
Jeff Giuliano (born June 20, 1979 in Nashua, New Hampshire) is a professional ice hockey left winger who currently plays for the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL. Giuliano was never drafted in the NHL Entry Draft. - Bastian Pastewka
Bastian Pastewka (* April, 4th 1972 in Bochum, Germany) is a German actor and comedian. He first became known to a wider audience in Germany around 1996 as a regular cast member of the comedy show "Die Wochenshow" (engl.: The Weekly Show), essentially a mock news program. His trademarks included quirky, off-beat characters such as fruity sex talk show host "Brisko Schneider" and "Ottmar Zittlau", an unemployed, sweatsuit-wearing dimwit. - Edwidge Danticat
Fiction writer Edwidge Danticat conjures the history of her native Haiti in award-winning short stories and novels. She is equally at home describing the immigrant experience--what she calls "dyaspora"--and the reality of life in Haiti today. Her first novel, the loosely biographical Breath, Eyes, Memory, was a 1998 selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club, thus assuring its bestseller status. - Ben Krakowsky
He ran for Mayor of Vancouver in 2002, coming in second to last. - Rich Tatum
Born in Albuquerque, NM, College in Texas, Seminary in Missouri, and working and growing wise(acre) in Illinois. I was the first Assemblies of God webmaster (. - Brian Unger
Brian Unger is an American comedian, writer, producer, and commentator. He was an original contributor to "The Daily Show", from 1996 to 1998. Currently, he provides regular commentary for the NPR show "Day to Day" and guest hosts MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann". Unger is a native of Granville, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio University in 1987, where he majored in communication. - John MacLean
John Maclean MA (24 August 1879- 30 November 1923) was a leftist Scottish politician. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland into a family of Highland origin from the Isle of Mull. Maclean became a school teacher and then attended the University of Glasgow, graduating with a Master of Arts degree (Maclean always used MA after his name when being published thereafter). Maclean is viewed as one of the leading figures of the Red Clydeside era. - Sue Bradford
The New Zealand politician Sue Bradford (born 1952) serves as a list Member of Parliament representing the Green Party. - Metiria Turei
Metiria Turei (born 1970) is a member of Parliament for the Green Party of New Zealand. She was first elected at number 8 on the Greens' list in the 2002 election, and retained her place at number 6 on the Greens' list in the 2005 election. As of 2005 she is the Green Party spokesperson on Alcohol and Drugs, Biosecurity, Children's Issues, Conservation, Disability Issues, Education, Environmental Education, Maori Affairs, Superannuation, Tertiary Education, Tourism, … - Justin {unemployed}
Hello everyone! welcome to MY space... not much to say really just a normal bloke who loves his music and lives for sport! im easy to get along with, i never judge people from the surface, i am really interested in talking to anyone that can hold a good conversation! i live in melbourne, the most beautiful city in the world. im very passionate about being australian and love everything about my country. - Damien Broderick
Damien Broderick (born 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel "The Judas Mandala" is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality". Broderick holds a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from Deakin University, Australia, with a dissertation relating to the comparative semiotics of scientific, literary and science fictional textuality. - Walter Greenwood
Walter Greenwood (December 17, 1903 - September 13, 1974) was an English novelist, best known for the socially influential novel "Love on the Dole" (1933). Greenwood was born in Hankey Park, Salford in Lancashire, the son of radical working class parents. Like many children he left school at the age of 13. He took a succession of low paid jobs, and continued to educate himself in Salford Public Library. - Frank Podmore
Frank Podmore (5 February 1856 - 14 August 1910) was an English author, founding member of the Fabian Society, and writer on psychic matters. Born at Elstree, Hertfordshire, Podmore was the son of Thompson Podmore, headmaster of Eastbourne College. He was educated at Haileybury and Pembroke College, Oxford (where he first became interested in spiritualism and joined the Society for Psychical Research - this interest remained with him throughout his life). - Mary Bamber
Mary 'Ma' Bamber (born 1874 in Edinburgh, died 1938 in Liverpool), was a socialist, trade unionist, social worker, and suffragist. Her daughter Bessie Braddock was a prominent Labour Member of Parliament (MP). Bamber was active in Liverpool and nationally for the best part of fifty years, present at key moments in Merseyside labour history, in the forefront of several prominent disputes. - John By
Lieutenant-Colonel John By (probably 7 August 1779 - 1 February 1836) was an English military engineer, best remembered for supervising the construction of the Rideau Canal and, in the process, founding what would become the city of Ottawa. Born in Lambeth in London, England in 1779, By studied at the Royal Military Academy. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery on 1 August 1799 but transferred to the Royal Engineers on 20 December the same year. - Noel Counihan
Noel Counihan (October 4, 1913 - July 5, 1986) was an Australian social realist painter. Counihan was born in Albert Park, then a working-class suburb of Melbourne. He studied part-time under Charles Wheeler at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne during 1930-31, where he met the social realists Herbert McClintock and Roy Dalgarno. Social realism, the belief that art should reflect the realities of society under capitalism, … - Harry McShane
Harry McShane (7 May 1891 - 12 April 1988) was a Scottish socialist, and a close colleague of John Maclean. Born into a Roman Catholic family, he became a Marxist. Involved in the anti-war movement during the First World War, after the conflict ended he was part of the "Tramp Trust Unlimited", formed by Maclean to propogandise and campaign for a minimum wage and a six hour day, amongst other socialist policies. He was a member of the British Socialist Party, … - Marianne Cerilli
Marianne Cerilli is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. She served as a New Democratic member of the Manitoba legislature from 1990 until 2003, though she was not called to cabinet when the party formed government in 1999. Cerilli is the daughter of railway trade unionist Al Cerilli. She was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was educated at the University of Manitoba (from which she holds a B.P.E. and a Bachelor of Education degree). - David Andrade
David Andrade (1859-1928) was an Australian anarchist. In May 1886, David Andrade, his brother Will and half a dozen others formed the Melbourne Anarchist Club (MAC), the first anarchist organization in Australia. Andrade became the MAC secretary and one of its main propagandists. The MAC produced the journal "Honesty". In a news agency at Brunswick, now an inner suburb of Melbourne, and later in Liberty Hall, Russell St. - Antonio Soberanis Gómez
Antonio Soberanis Gómez was a Belizean labour activist, regarded as the father of the Belizean labour movement. He founded the Labourers and Unemployed Association in 1934 to demand poverty relief work and a minimum wage. He was jailed for sedition in 1935. - Wal Hannington
Wal (Walter) Hannington (17 June 1896 - 17 November 1966) was a founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and National Organiser of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, from its formation in 1921 to its end in 1939, when he became National Organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. In 1936, he wrote a book about his experiences as leader of the NUWM, called " Unemployed struggles 1919-1936: my life and struggles amongst the unemployed". - Joe !unemployed!
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Currently unemployed, about to start PADI Instructor training. - Alexis Hanson
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