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  1. Abdi, Dekha Ibrahim
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    A global peacemaker from rural Kenya who has engaged in peace work and conflict resolution in many of the world's most divided countries. Her comprehensive methodology combines grassroots activism, soft but uncompromising leadership, and spiritual motivation drawing on the teachings of Islam. (Born 1964).
  2. American Revolutionary
    The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2014
    A documentary about the ideas and activism of 98-year-old Grace Lee Boggs, covering her lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labour to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond. Boggs’s constantly evolving strategy -- her willingness to re-evaluate and change tactics in relation to the world shifting around her -- drives the story forward.
  3. Anderson, Doris
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
  4. Anderson, Doris
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
  5. Anthony, Susan B.
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. (1820-1906).
  6. Antoniou, Laura
    Resource Type: Article
    Laura Antoniou (born 1963) is an American novelist. She is the author of The Marketplace series of BDSM-themed novels, which were originally published under the pen name of Sara Adamson.
  7. As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil
    The Impossible Life of Mary Benson
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    The biography of Mary Benson, the lesbian wife of the Head of the Church of England at the end of the 19th century. She was loved for her wit by Tennyson, Henry James and Browning. This is the story of an unsung woman and an intellectual history of her time.
  8. Baez, Joan
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Folk singer, songwriter and activist. (Born 1941).
  9. Baker, Ella
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    African American civil rights and human rights activis. (1903-1986).
  10. Barlow, Maude
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian auther and activist. National chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a citizens' advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, and an executive member of the International Forum on Globalization. (Born 1947).
  11. Barlow, Maude
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian auther and activist. National chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a citizens' advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, and an executive member of the International Forum on Globalization. (Born 1947).
  12. Beauvoir, Simone de
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    French writer, philosopher, feminist, and social theorist. (1908-1986).
  13. Bertell, Rosalie
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian-American researcher who has worked in the field of environmental health. (Born 1929).
  14. Besant, Annie
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator, and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule. (1847-1933).
  15. Bhatt, Ela
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Advocate for self-employed women. Winner of the Right Livelihood Award in 1984. (Born 1933).
  16. Boggs, Grace Lee
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A Chinese-American author, anti-racist activist and feminist. (Born 1915).
  17. Grace Lee Boggs, Legendary Activist, Dead At 100
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Boggs spent her life actively supporting causes ranging from civil rights and labour to the Black Power and feminist movements.
  18. Grace Lee Boggs, Legendary Activist, Dead At 100
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Boggs spent her life actively supporting causes ranging from civil rights and labour to the Black Power and feminist movements.
  19. Grace Lee Boggs R.I.P.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Grace Lee Boggs, founding member of the Johnson-Forest Tendency (where her party name was Ria Stone), has died at the age of 100 in Detroit. She was born on June 27, 1915 and passed away October 5, 2015.
  20. Brame, Gloria
    Resource Type: Article
    Gloria Glickstein Brame (born August 20, 1955) is a U.S. writer and sex therapist based in Athens, Georgia.
  21. Brown, Rosemary
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician, prominent member of the New Democratic Party. (1930-2003).
  22. Bryant, Louise
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American journalist and writer best known for her Marxist and anarchist beliefs and her essays on radical political and feminist themes. (1885-1936).
  23. Budiardjo, Carmel
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    British human rights activist, founder of the organisation Tapol and a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award.
  24. Buller, Annie
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Union organizer and manager of various Communist Party of Canada (CPC) publications. (1895-1973).
  25. Callwood, June
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Journalist, writer, broadcaster, civil libertarian 1924-2007. (1924-2007).
  26. Callwood, June
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Journalist, writer, broadcaster, civil libertarian 1924-2007. (1924-2007).
  27. Carr, Shirley
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian union leader who was the first woman president of the Canadian Labour Congress.
  28. Carson, Rachel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings, especially 'Silent Spring', are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. (1907-1964).
  29. Casgrain, Marie Thérèse (Forget)
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada. (1896-1981).
  30. Chang, Helen Mack
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Guatemalan businesswoman and human rights activist. Active in the struggle against impunity of political murderers. (Born 1952).
  31. Circle in the Darkness
    Memoir of a World Watcher
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2020
    Veteran journalist Diana Johnstone's memoir covers half a century of contemporary history. Johnstone recounts in detail how the Western Left betrayed its historical principles of socila justice and peace and let itself be lured into approval of aggressive U.S.-NATO wars on the fallacious grouns of "human rightss". Subjects range from caustic analysis of the pretentious confusion of French philosophers to the stories of many courageous individuals whose struggle for peace and justice ended in deep personal tragedy, with a great deal in between.
  32. Culhane, Claire
    Connexipedia: Article from PrisonJustice.ca
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian social justice activist. (1918-1996).
  33. Deborah Cunningham, 1945-2015
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Deborah Cunningham was an ADAPT activist and Executive Director of the Memphis Center for Independent Living (MCIL). When she died on May 7, the movement lost a tireless, creative, committed activist, feminist and thinker.
  34. Marie Curie
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    A pocket biography of Marie Curie.
  35. Dann, Mary and Carrie
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Leaders in the struggle of the Western Shoshone to retain their ancestral lands.
  36. Darcy, Judy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian trade unionist and president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees from 1991 until 2003. (Born 1950).
  37. Day, Dorothy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American journalist, social activist, distributist, anarchist, and devout Catholic. (1897-1980).
  38. Defender of the Forests
    Bonnie Phillips vs. the Timber Beasts, Gang Green and the Big Foundations
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Veteran forest advocate Bonnie Phillips passed away on May 4, 2015 in Olympia, Washington. This article is based on her final interview.
  39. Detroit celebrates Grace Lee Boggs' 100th birthday
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    About the weeklong celebration of the life of Grace Lee Boggs, radical activist, political theorist, and revolutionary.
  40. Diary of Bergen-Belsen
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Hanna Lévy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations, recorded in her own incomparable voice, shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. Lévy-Hass stands alone as the only resistance fighter to report on her own experience inside the camps, and she does so with unflinching clarity in dealing with the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen.
  41. Duckworth, Muriel
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).
  42. Duckworth, Muriel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).
  43. Dunayevskaya, Raya
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism. (1910-1987).
  44. Edwards, Henrietta Muir
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian women's rights activist and reformer. (1849-1931).
  45. Eileen Gersh, 1913-1998
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    EILEEN SUTTON GERSH, a revolutionary socialist since the 1930s, died in London on March 18, 1998. Like many of her generation, she became radicalized by the political and economic crisis of the 1930s, including the rise of fascism and the Spanish Civil War. Sutton began to read Marx while studying at Somerville College in Oxford and joined the school's Labour Club.
  46. Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1991
    A documentary about author Elizabeth Smart, with Jackie Burroughts playing Elizabeth Smart.
  47. Hedy Epstein
    Resource Type: Website
    The website of the late Hedy Epstein 1924-2016), Holocause survivor, human rights advocate, and speaker.
  48. A Farewell and Tribute: Rose Lesnik, 1924-1998
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    ROSE LESNIK, LIFELONG socialist, activist and humanist, died of pancreatic cancer on August 1, 1998. Rose, born in 1924, grew up in a socialist household.
    Her father, Harry Gold, and her brother joined the Trotskyist movement in 1938. Rose followed their example and at the age of 17 joined the Socialist Workers Party. Then in 1953 she became a member of the Socialist Union (publishers of American Socialist).
  49. Fernandez, Irene
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Malaysian advocate for the right of women, migrants, and poor workers. (Born 1946).
  50. Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Labour leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1890-1964).
  51. Franklin, Ursula
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
  52. Franklin, Ursula
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
  53. Franklin, Ursula
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
  54. Friedan, Betty
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
  55. Miriam Garfinkle
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Miriam Garfinkle was a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
  56. Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
  57. Genefke, Inge
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Campaigner and worker on behalf of torture victims.
  58. Geonzon, Winefreda
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Advocate for prisoners. Responsible for setting up the Free Legal Assistance Volunteers Association (FREELAVA) as a legal aid office for victims of human rights violations, prisoners who could not afford lawyers to act for them and people whose cases had implications for social justice.
  59. Goldman, Emma
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. (1869-1940).
  60. Gough, Kathleen
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Anthropologist, Marxist. (1925-1990).
  61. Hamer, Fannie Lou
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. (1917-1977).
  62. Hartman, Grace
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian labour union activist. (1918-1993).
  63. Hauser, Monika
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    German human rights advocate. (Born 1959).
  64. Dorothy Hewitt: 1923 – 2002
    Resource Type: Article
    One of Australia’s most productive and provocative writers, acclaimed as a poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist, Dorothy Hewett was a member of the Communist Party of Australia for 24 years.
  65. Holocaust survivor and activist for justice Hedy Epstein dies at 91
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, 91, died at her home in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on May 26, 2016. An internationally renowned, respected and admired advocate for human and civil rights, Hedy was encircled by friends who lovingly cared for her at home.
  66. Horton, Zilphia
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
  67. Huerta, Dolores
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. (Born 1930).
  68. In Memoriam: Joyce Nelson
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
  69. Jacobs, Jane
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
  70. Jacobs, Jane
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
  71. Jagannathan, Krishnammal and Sankaralingam
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winners
    Resource Type: Article
    Gandhian activists who have protested against social injustice.
  72. Jagger, Bianca
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    A Nicaraguan-born social and human rights advocate and a former actress and fashion icon. (Born 1950).
  73. James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    James Tiptree, Jr. burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with a series of hardedged, provocative short stories. After years, the cover was blown on his alter ego: A sixty-one-year old woman named Alice Sheldon. This fascinating biography, ten years in the making, is based on extensive research, exclusive interviews, and full access to Alice Sheldon's papers.
  74. Joan of Arc
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A peasant girl born in what is now eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War.
  75. Jones, Mary Harris (Mother Jones)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American labour and community organizer, a Wobbly, and a Socialist. (1837-1930).
  76. Kamal, Meena Keshwar
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An Afghan women's rights activist, founder of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), a group organized to promote equality and education for women. (1956-1987).
  77. Keller, Helen
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American author, political activist and lecturer. (1880-1968).
  78. Kelly, Petra
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Left-wing German politician. (1947-1992).
  79. Kelly, Petra
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Left-wing German politician. (1947-1992).
  80. Klein, Bonnie Sherr
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Filmmaker, author, disability rights activist. (Born 1941).
  81. Joy Kogawa
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Joy Kogawa is a Canadian writer.
  82. Kruhonja, Katarina
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Croatian peace activist. (Born 1962).
  83. Hedy Lamarr
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, 9 November 1914 – 19 January 2000) was an Austrian and American film actress and inventor. After an early and brief film career in Germany, which included a controversial love-making scene in the film Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her husband and secretly moved to Paris. There, she met MGM head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood, where she became a film star from the late 1930s to the 1950s.
  84. Landsberg, Michele
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian writer, social activist and feminist. (Born 1935).
  85. Langer, Felicia
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Israeli human rights lawyer, winner of the Right Livelihood Award.
  86. Lappé, Frances Moore
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Activist and writer on food, hunger, economics, and democracy. (Born 1944).
  87. Lappé, Frances Moore
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Activist and writer on food, hunger, economics, and democracy. (Born 1944).
  88. Lavell, Jeannette Vivian Corbiere
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Native women's rights activist. (Born 1942).
  89. LeBourdais, Isabel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian journalist and author. (1909-2003).
  90. The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Norman Geras sets out to interrogate and refute the myths that have developed around Rosa Luxemburg's work.
  91. Lemke, Birsel
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Turkish environmentalist. (Born 1950).
  92. Megan Leslie
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Megan Anissa Leslie (born September 29, 1973) is a Canadian politician and environmental advocate. She is the president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund Canada.
  93. The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    Blending a passionate sensibility and a steely intellect with an unshakeable commitment to revolutionary socialism, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. In this comprehensive collection selection of Luxemburg's letters, her political concerns are revealed alongside the story of a vivid inner life.
  94. A Life of Learning
    Charles Homer Haskins Lecture for 1997
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
  95. Livesay, Dorothy
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Poet, journalist, writer of short fiction, autobiography and literary criticism. (1909-1996).
  96. Livingstone, Kay
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Social activist, radio host. (1918-1975).
  97. Longuet, Jenny
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Socialist activist. Daughter of Jenny von Westphalen and Karl Marx. (1844-1883).
  98. Love and Capital
    Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    A biography of Karl and Jenny Marx.
  99. Luxemburg, Rosa
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).
  100. Luxemburg, Rosa
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Resource Type: Article
    Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).
  101. Maathai, Wangari
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Winner of the1984 Right Livelihood Award and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1940).
  102. Maathai, Wangari
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Winner of the 1984 Right Livelihood Award and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (1940-2011).
  103. MacInnis, Grace Winona
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician and feminist.
  104. MacInnis, Grace
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician and feminist. (1905-1991).
  105. Macphail, Agnes
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian political and activist. (1890-1954).
  106. Macphail, Agnes Campbell
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian polician. (1890-1954).
  107. Manorama, Ruth
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Advocate for the right of Dalit women. (Born 1952).
  108. Martha (Marty) Quinn, 1939-2018
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Obituary for Martha Quinn, a founding member of Solidarity.
  109. Marx, Eleanor
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Socialist author and activist. (1855-1898).
  110. A Marxian Oddity
    A review of Marxiam and Freedom. From 1776 Unitl Today, by Raya Dunayevskaya
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1958
    Paul Mattick says although Raya Dunayevskaya’s interpretation of Marxian doctrine is occasionally true and eloquent, this book as a whole is a scatterbrained hodge-podge of philosophical, economic and political ideas that defy description and serious criticism.
  111. Joyce Maupin, 1914-1998
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    JOYCE MAUPIN, A long-time revolutionary activist and writer and a founder of Union WAGE (Women's Alliance to Gain Equality), died last September 14. Joyce loved to recount the story about “women in line to pee” leading to the formation of Union WAGE, the organization they spent a decade building. Her friend, Jean Maddox (ex-Communist Party) attended a March, 1971 conference on Women's Day at UCB (Berkeley) called by NOW. Standing in line for the bathroom, Jean chatted with Anne...
  112. McClung, Nellie Letitia (Mooney)
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. (1873-1951).
  113. McNaughton, Violet
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Feminist, journalist and activist. (1879-1968).
  114. Memorial to Dagmar Baur
    Resource Type: Website
    This site is dedicated to the memory of Dagmar Baur - March 1941 - April 2010.
  115. Menchú, Rigoberta
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1959).
  116. Mer-Khamis, Arna
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Israeli educator and human rights activist. (1929-1995).
  117. Michel, Louise
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Resource Type: Article
    French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. (1830-1905).
  118. Miriam Garfinkle
    Memories, Stories, Photos, Articles, Statements, Interviews, Letters, Actions, Activism, News
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2018
    This page is dedicated to the memory of Miriam Garfinkle (1954 - 2018). It provides links to Miriam’s articles and interviews, letters; accounts of her activism and organizing; stories from some of the occasions when Miriam’s activities landed her in the news; photo albums; and tributes to Miriam. There is a separate page, Moments with Miriam, on which more 100 people share stories of Miriam.
  119. Diana Moeser Obituary
    March 24, 1944 - September 18, 2013
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
  120. Joyce Nelson
    Obituary
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
  121. Omido, Phyllis
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Phyllis Omido is a Kenyan environmental activist.
  122. One Woman Army
    The Life of Claire Culhane
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A biography of Claire Culhane, member of the Canadian Communist Party, crusader for prison abolition, and peace activist opposed to the Vietnam war.
  123. Pankhurst, Emmeline
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    English women's suffrage movement leader. (1858-1928).
  124. Parent, Madeleine
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  125. Parent, Madeleine
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  126. Parlby, Irene Marryat
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Politician, farm women's leader. (1868-1965).
  127. Parsons, Lucy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Radical American labour organizer and anarchist communist. (1853-1942).
  128. The Passing of Ronnie Gilbert
    A Great Woman Has Died
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Ronnie Gilbert, an original member of the legendary folk group, the Weavers, has died .
  129. Politkovskaya, Anna
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Russian journalist, author and human rights activist. (1958-2006).
  130. The Radical Life of Rosa Luxemburg
    A graphic novelization of the revolutionary life and legacy of "Red Rosa"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    An excerpt from Red Rosa, a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg.
  131. Rebick, Judy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian feminist, writer, and activist. (Born 1945).
  132. Judy Rebick
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Judy Rebick (born August 15, 1945) is a Canadian writer, journalist, political activist, and feminist.
  133. Red Rosa
    A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a radical and human being. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.
  134. Remembering Lissa Donner
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Recollections of Lissa Donner, 1955 - 2017.
  135. RIP Betty Dodson, Sex Revolutionary
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    The great sex revolutionary and Godmother of Masturbation, Dr. Betty Dodson (1929-2020), one of my most beloved mentors, died on the Blue Moon of Halloween night.
  136. Roback, Léa
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Union organizer, social activist. (1903-2000).
  137. Léa Roback
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Léa Roback (3 November 1903 – 28 August 2000) was a Canadian trade union organizer, social activist, pacifist, and feminist. She campaigned against exclusion, violence, racism and injustice.
  138. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
  139. Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.
  140. Rosa Luxemburg. Im Lebensrausch, trotz alledem
    Eine Biographie
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  141. Rosa Luxemburg: A Reappraisal
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  142. Rose Henderson
    A Woman for the People
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    A study of the life of Canadian feminist, socialist, and peace activist Rose Henderson (1871-1937).
  143. Rowbotham, Sheila
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    British socialist feminist theorist and writer. (Born 1943).
  144. Roy, Arundhati
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    Indian writer (in English) and activist. (Born 1961).
  145. Russell, Dora
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    British author, feminist and socialist campaigner. (1894-1986).
  146. Sakura Saunders
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    Sakura Saunders, born in 1979, is an American writer of Japanese descent who lives in Toronto who has become a well-known media activist.
  147. Scholl, Sophie
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    A member of the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. (1921-1943).
  148. Shadd, Mary Ann
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    A key figure in the Underground Railroad and a subscription agent for William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. (1823-1893).
  149. Shiva, Vandana
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    Philosopher, environmental activist, eco feminist and author. (Born 1952).
  150. Shiva, Vandana
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Environmental and women's activist. (Born 1952).
  151. Smart, Elizabeth
    Wikipedia article
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    Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist.
  152. Social Activist Grace Lee Boggs on Shaking Up the Status Quo in America
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2007
    Grace Lee Boggs has been a part of almost every major movement in the United States in the last 75 years, including: Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Women’s Rights and Environmental Justice.
  153. Starhawk
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    American writer, anarchist activist. (Born 1951).
  154. Barb Tarbox
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    Barb Tarbox, MSM (April 10, 1961 - May 18, 2003) was one of the most well-known anti-smoking activists in Canada She was a lifelong smoker dying of brain and lung cancers whose very open and frank discussions of her illness propelled her to the Canadian national stage.
  155. Terselic, Vesna
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Croatian peace activist. (Born 1962).
  156. Tough Love
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    Published: 2010
    Attorney Emily Schaeffer immigrated to Israel to defend the rights of Palestinians in the West Bank. 'I guess most Israelis would view me as a traitor,' she says, 'but I don't intend to keep quiet just because I came from afar'
  157. Truth, Sojourner
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    African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. (1797-1883).
  158. Tubman, Harriet
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    An African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. (1822-1913).
  159. Ursula K. Le Guin - Rest in Power
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Obituary celebrating Le Guin's contributions as a community activist, a fighter for feminism, peace, freedom of speech, access to knowledge for everyone, and radical democracy in addition to her literary acclaim.
  160. Ury, Else
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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    German author.
  161. Victims No Longer?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    The author begins with the position that suffering is not moral and criticizes Israeli settlers and Zionists for disenfranchising Palestinians. She debunks the notion that they are a nation of victims. She calls into question the assumption that criticizing Israel is anti-semitic.
  162. Violet McNaughton: the Mighty Mite Reformer From Saskatchewan
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Violet McNaughton deserves recognition as one of Canada's greatest and most formidable adult educators and co-operator of the twentieth century bar none
  163. Harsha Walia
    Wikipedia article
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    Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist and writer based in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish territories, British Columbia, Canada. She has been active in migrant justice, Indigenous solidarity, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist movements for over a decade.
  164. Wangari Maathai was not a good woman. Kenya needs more of them.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    25 September, 2015 marked four years since the passing of Kenyan environmentalist and feminist icon, Wangari Maathai. In Kenya, the celebrations were notably muted as her standing in the country has been ambiguous. Maathai challenged the notion of Kenyan women, who are forced to pretend to be "good" to satisfy societal expectations.
  165. Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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    Inuit leader, activist.
  166. Wilkerson, Cathy
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    American radical. (Born 1945).
  167. Williams, Jody
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    Winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1950).
  168. Wollstonecraft, Mary
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    British writer, philosopher, and feminist. (1759-1797).
  169. Wood, Ellen Meiksins
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    Marxist scholar. (Born 1942).
  170. Zasulich, Vera
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    Russian Marxist and revolutionary 1849-1919.
  171. Zetkin, Clara
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    German socialist. (1857-1933).
  172. Zetkin, Clara
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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    German socialist. (1857-1933).

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