- Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is a Canadian journalist, author and activist. Her grandfather was fired for labor organizing at Disney in the United States. Her father Michael, a physician, was a Vietnam War resister (draft dodger) and became a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Her film-maker mother, Bonnie, won fame with her anti-pornography film, "Not a Love Story". Her brother Seth is director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
- 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.
- Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva (b. November 5, 1952, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India), is a physicist, ecofeminist, environmental activist and author. Shiva, currently based in New Delhi, is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals.<br /> Shiva participated in the nonviolent Chipko movement during the 1970s. The movement, whose main participants were women, adopted the tactic of hugging trees to prevent their felling.
- Starhawk
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, …
- Jaggi Singh
Jaggi Singh (born 1971 in Toronto) is one of Canada's most high-profile anti-globalization and social justice activists. A self-described anarchist, Singh lives in Montreal where he works with groups such as Solidarity Across Borders (a local migrant-rights organization) and the No One Is Illegal collective, among others. Singh graduated from St. Michael's College School and attended the University of Toronto.
- Connie Fogal
Constance (Connie) Fogal (born 1940) is the leader of the Canadian Action Party. A lawyer and former teacher, Fogal lives in Vancouver, British Columbia where her late husband Harry Rankin was a long time progressive city councillor. She is an anti-globalization activist and was an opponent of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the North American Free Trade Agreement. She has also been active with the "Canadian Liberty Committee".
- Kevin Danaher
Described by The New York Times as the "Paul Revere of globalization's woes," Dr. Kevin Danaher 's analytical expertise, sense of humor and blunt eloquence make him an exceptionally dynamic speaker. Dr. Kevin Danaher is a co-founder of Global Exchange (1988), founder and Executive Co-Producer of the Green Festivals (2001), and Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center (2004).
- 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.
- Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik , who chairs the Advisory Committee of the Center for Global Development, is Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. ... Professor Rodrik is the research coordinator for the Group of 24 (G-24), a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London).
- John McMurtry
Professor John McMurtry, FRSC is a moral philosopher and ethicist who works at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He is a strong advocate of monetary reform and vocal in the anti-globalization movement. He may be the single most influential Canadian voice in that movement, although Naomi Klein is better known. He was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in June 2001.. He received his doctorate in 1975 from University College, London.
- Pratap Chatterjee
Pratap Chatterjee (b. Birmingham, United Kingdom) is an Indian/Sri Lankan investigative journalist and progressive author. He is a British citizen and was raised in India, although he now lives in California. He serves as the executive director of CorpWatch, an Oakland-based anti-globalization and corporate accountability organization. He was a member of the board of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network from 2001 to 2005, …
- 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.
- Alain de Benoist
Alain de Benoist is a French academic, philosopher, a founder of the "Nouvelle Droite" and head of the French think tank GRECE. He is little known outside his native France, yet his writings have been highly influential on anti-globalist thought, primarily on the political right. Benoist bills himself as a critic of liberalism, free markets and egalitarianism
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
Economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that the U.S. government should address the mortgage crisis by providing aid directly to homeowners, rather than to the financial institutions holding their mortgages.
- Robert Henderson
Robert Henderson (b. 1947) is a British writer who has caused public controversy with his views on racial issues and his letters to the British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Henderson spent his early childhood in Cheshire before moving to Hertfordshire, where he was educated at St Albans School, later graduating from Keele University. Since then he has lived in Central London. Before retiring due to ill health he worked for the Inland Revenue, …
- Ken Fernandez
Ken Fernandez is a political consultant influenced by the political legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. He ran for the Canadian Action Party in the federal elections of 2000 and 2004 in the riding of Saint-Laurent-Cartierville. He is the president of the party's Quebec wing, and is a noted Canadian anti-globalization activist.
- Rob Altemeyer
Rob Altemeyer is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He is currently a member of the Manitoba legislature. Altemeyer was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was educated at the University of Manitoba where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and a Master's Degree in Natural Resource Management. He also played college baseball for two years in North Dakota, on an athletic scholarship.
- Brian Wilshire
Brian Wilshire (his last name is pronounced "WIL-sha") was born at Strathfield (Sydney's inner west), New South Wales Australia in 1944. His radio career started in November, 1969. A radio talkback host veteran who has worked in stations in places like Tamworth, Canberra and Sydney. Since 1979, his radio show has frequently been very high up in the rankings of his time slot. His program averages twice the audience share of the station as a whole, a huge achievement.
- P. Sainath
Palagummi Sainath (1954-) is an award winning Indian development journalist and photojournalist focusing on social problems, rural affairs, poverty and the aftermaths of Globalization in India.Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen described him as "one of the world's greatest experts on famine and hunger".
- Kevin Bales
Dr. Kevin Bales is the world's leading expert on modern slavery and President of Free the Slaves, the US Sister organization of Anti-Slavery International (the world’s oldest human rights organization). He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Roehampton University in London, as well as serving on the Board of Directors of the International Cocoa Initiative. Bales's book "Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy" published in 1999, …
- Lee Kyung Hae
Lee Kyung Hae was a South Korean farmer and activist who opposed globalization and protested for the local farmers and fishermen of his home country whose jobs were threatened. He was also president of the Federation of Farmers and Fishermen of Korea. (There are 3.5 million Korean farmers) Lee Kyang Hae was born in Jangsu, Jeollabuk-do, in what was then a united Korea. He graduated from Seoul Agricultural College in 1974 and pursued farming as a career, …
- Bobo Ho
- Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
Hugo Chavez for President! Of the United States!!
- James Wickstrom
James P. Wickstrom (b. 1942) is a far right radio talk-show host as well as a purported Christian Identity minister, who resides in Rhodes, Michigan. He is known for his strong opinions on racial issues, globalization, and Jews. He is also noted to be intensely anti-communist.
- Yehuda Hakohen
Yehuda HaKohen was born in 1979 and is an Israeli activist and internet radio personality on Arutz Sheva (channel seven). He is a leader in Magshimey Herut’s Zionist Freedom Alliance and has become a vocal critic of both government corruption and globalization in the Middle East. HaKohen lives with his family in eastern Jerusalem and like most Israeli settlers, …
- Sergey Kara-Murza
Sergey Georgyevich Kara-Murza, Soviet and Russian chemist, historian, political philosopher and sociologist. Sergey Kara-Murza was graduated with degree in chemistry from Moscow State University in 1961. Between 1966 and 1972 he worked as a Soviet chemical specialist in Cuba. In 1983 Sergey Kara-Murza defended his doctoral thesis in history of science and technology and in 1988 became a professor.
- Yehuda Weisbrod
Yehuda HaKohen was born in 1979 and is an Israeli activist and internet radio personality on Arutz Sheva (channel seven). He is a leader in Magshimey Herut’s Zionist Freedom Alliance and has become a vocal critic of both government corruption and globalization in the Middle East. HaKohen lives with his family in eastern Jerusalem and like most Israeli settlers, …
- Aleksandr Zinovyev
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev (September 29, 1922 - May 10, 2006) was a well-known Russian logician, sociologist and writer. Son of a poor Russian peasant, Zinoviev distinguished himself as a pilot in the Second World War, and later as a scientist, having earned a professor’s degree and international recognition in the field of logic.
- Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was an acclaimed French sociologist whose work employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines: from philosophy and literary theory to sociology and anthropology. He is best known for his book "Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste", in which he tried to connect aesthetic judgments to positions in social space. The most notable aspect of Bourdieu's theory is the development of methodologies, …
- Arundhati Arundhati Roy
Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, writer and activist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel, "The God of Small Things", and, in 2002, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.
- Emmanuel Todd
Emmanuel Todd, born 16 may 1951 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France is a French historian and political scientist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), in Paris. His research examines the different types of families worldwide and how there are matching beliefs, ideologies and political systems, and the historical events involving these things.
- Natalia Narochnitskaya
- Richard Grossman
Richard Grossman is the former co-director of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD). He is co-author of "Taking Care of Business: Citizenship and the Charter of Incorporation". He lectures widely on issues of corporate power, law and democracy. He is also one of the teachers for the Daniel Pennock Democracy School, which tries to help people understand how and why corporations have more rights than human beings.
- Denis Robert
Denis Robert is a French journalist and writer, author of "Revelation$" in 2001 with Ernest Backes, who was #3 of Cedel until he was fired in May 1983. He worked for "Libération" newspaper for 12 years, and is best known for being the first one to have accused, even proved that Clearstream is having non-published accounts. After the publication of his book, Clearstream's CEO, André Lussi was dismissed, and Belgian and French parliamentary commissions created.
- Vittorio Agnoletto
Vittorio Emanuele Agnoletto (born on 6 March 1958 in Milan) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern with the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC), part of the European Left, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is a substitute for the Committee on International Trade, substitute for the Delegation for relations with the United States.
- José Bové
Joseph (José) Bové is a French farmer and syndicalist, member of the alter-globalization movement, and spokesman for Via Campesina. He was one of the twelve official candidates in the 2007 French presidential election.
- Jane Scharf
Jane Scharf is a poverty activist from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada who ran for mayor of Ottawa in the 2006 municipal election. She currently resides in Kanata, Ontario a suburb of Ottawa. Scharf has been active in Ottawa politics for at least two decades. She is a member of the Ottawa branch of the Industrial Workers of the World and has worked closely with homeless youth.
- David Korten
David Korten dkorten@bainbridge.net Dr. David Korten is a respected author and a leading authority on International Development in Third World countries. He has over thirty-five years of experience in pre-eminent business, academic and international development institutions as well as in contemporary citizen action organizations.
- George Brooks
So I've left highschool 2.0 for a more interesting time at a large corporation! Yay for healthcare benefits and okay pay, boo for big pharma. I guess I've sold out, or bought in, whatever. I work on my car, I have more fun than should be legal on the weekends, and sit at home the rest of the time.