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  1. Abu-Jamal, Mumia
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    An African-American activist who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His conviction was based on dubious evidence and dubious legal proceedings. (Born 1954).
  2. Aggett, Neil
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    South African physician and labour activist who was tortured and killed by the apartheid 'security forces'. (1953-1982).
  3. Alinsky, Saul
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    American community organizer and writer. (1909-1972).
  4. Almada, Martín
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Paraguayan human rights activist known for his outstanding courage in bringing torturers to justice, and promoting democracy, human rights and sustainable development. (Born 1937).
  5. Anderson, Doris
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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    Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
  6. Anderson, Doris
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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    Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
  7. Avnery, Uri and Rachel
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Israeli human rights activists, founders of the Gush Shalom peace movement.
  8. Baker, Ella
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    African American civil rights and human rights activis. (1903-1986).
  9. Baxandall, Lee
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    American writer, translator, editor, and activist, first known for his New Left engagement with cultural topics and then as a leader of the naturist movement. (1935-2008).
  10. Bello, Walden
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Filipino author, academic, and political analyst. (Born 1945).
  11. Besant, Annie
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    Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator, and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule. (1847-1933).
  12. Bethune, Norman
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    Canadian Communist physician, and medical innovator who developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. (1890-1939).
  13. Bethune, Norman
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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    Canadian Communist physician, and medical innovator who developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. (1890-1939).
  14. Betty Peterson Leaves a Legacy of Peacework
    Sources News Release
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    Published: 2018
    It is with great sadness and immense appreciation of her contribution to peace and justice that we let you know of the peaceful passing of our mentor, inspiration and “grandmother with a hug”, 100 year-old Betty Peterson. Long-time Nova Scotia
  15. Blair, Elgin
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    Published: 1989
    Obituary of Connexions collective member Elgin Blair. (Died 1989).
  16. Boggs, Grace Lee
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    A Chinese-American author, anti-racist activist and feminist. (Born 1915).
  17. Bridges, Harry
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    Australian-American union leader in the ILWU, a longshore (dock) and warehouse workers' union on the West Coast, Hawai'i and Alaska. (1901-1990).
  18. Budiardjo, Carmel
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    British human rights activist, founder of the organisation Tapol and a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award.
  19. Canada's Young Activists
    A Generation Stands Up for Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Twenty five personal accounts of the important work of some of Canada's most prominent young activists championing causes from child labour to environmentalism.
  20. Pat Capponi
    Wikipedia article
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    Pat Capponi is a Canadian author and an advocate for mental health issues and poverty issues in Canada. Her works include several nonfiction titles and a mystery novel series.
  21. Carmichael, Stokely
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    Trinidadian-American black leader active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. (1941-1998).
  22. Chang, Helen Mack
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Guatemalan businesswoman and human rights activist. Active in the struggle against impunity of political murderers. (Born 1952).
  23. Chaplin, Ralph
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    Labour activist at the age of 7, after witnessing a worker shot dead diurng the Pullman strike in Chicago, Illinois. (1887-1961).
  24. Chartrand, Michel
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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    Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
  25. Chester, Eric
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    Author, socialist political activist, and economics professor. (Born 1943).
  26. John Clarke
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    John Clarke is an anti-poverty activist active in Canada.
  27. Culhane, Claire
    Connexipedia: Article from PrisonJustice.ca
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    Canadian social justice activist. (1918-1996).
  28. Deborah Cunningham, 1945-2015
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    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.
  29. Daly, Herman
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    American ecological economist and professor. (Born 1938).
  30. Day, Dorothy
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    American journalist, social activist, distributist, anarchist, and devout Catholic. (1897-1980).
  31. Du Bois, W. E. B.
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    American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. (1868-1963).
  32. Duckworth, Muriel
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    Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).
  33. Edwards, Henrietta Muir
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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    Canadian women's rights activist and reformer. (1849-1931).
  34. Ellsberg, Daniel
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Peace campaigner. (Born 1931).
  35. Evers, Medgar
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    African American civil rights activist from Mississippi, murdered in 1963. (1925-1963).
  36. The Expo Files
    Articles by the Crusading Journalist
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    Published: 2012
    Collected here for the first time are Stieg Larsson's essays and articles on right-wing extremism and racism, on violence against women and women's rights, on homophobia and honour killings.
  37. Ferreira, Chico Whitaker
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Brazilian social-justice advocate. A Catholic activist, Whitaker is inspired by liberation theology and closely allied with the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace. (Born 1931).
  38. Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
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    Labour leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1890-1964).
  39. Friedan, Betty
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    American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
  40. Garcés, Juan
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Human rights activist. (Born 1967).
  41. Garrison, William Lloyd
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    American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. (1805-1879).
  42. Goodman, Paul
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    American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
  43. Hamer, Fannie Lou
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    American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. (1917-1977).
  44. Heap, Dan
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    Canadian politician with the New Democratic Party. (Born 1925).
  45. Hennacy, Ammon
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    American pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement and a Wobbly. (1893-1970).
  46. Hill, Joe
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    Swedish-American labour activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. (1879-1915).
  47. Hoffman, Abbie
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    Social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). (1936-1989).
  48. Huerta, Dolores
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    The co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. (Born 1930).
  49. Ikanan, Evaristo Nugkuag
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Activist working to protect the rights of the indigenous people of the Amazon.
  50. Jagannathan, Krishnammal and Sankaralingam
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winners
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    Gandhian activists who have protested against social injustice.
  51. Jones, Mary Harris (Mother Jones)
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    American labour and community organizer, a Wobbly, and a Socialist. (1837-1930).
  52. Jungk, Robert
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Austrian writer, journalists and peace activist who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons. (1913-1994).
  53. Keller, Helen
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    American author, political activist and lecturer. (1880-1968).
  54. Kelly, Petra
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    Left-wing German politician. (1947-1992).
  55. Kelly, Petra
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    Left-wing German politician. (1947-1992).
  56. King, Martin Luther Jr.
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    (1929-1968). Was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement.
  57. Ki-Zerbo, Joseph
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Scholar, activist, and advocate for endogenous development. (1922-2006).
  58. Klein, Bonnie Sherr
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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    Filmmaker, author, disability rights activist. (Born 1941).
  59. Landsberg, Michele
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    Canadian writer, social activist and feminist. (Born 1935).
  60. Lappé, Frances Moore
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    Activist and writer on food, hunger, economics, and democracy. (Born 1944).
  61. Lappé, Frances Moore
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Activist and writer on food, hunger, economics, and democracy. (Born 1944).
  62. Larkin, James
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    Irish trade union leader and socialist activist. (1876-1947).
  63. Laxer, Robert
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    Canadian psychologist, professor, author, and political activist. (1915-1998).
  64. LeBourdais, Isabel
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    Canadian journalist and author. (1909-2003).
  65. Leon, Abraham
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    Jewish Trotskyist activist and theorist. (1918-1944).
  66. Livingstone, Kay
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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    Social activist, radio host. (1918-1975).
  67. Longuet, Jenny
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    Socialist activist. Daughter of Jenny von Westphalen and Karl Marx. (1844-1883).
  68. Lynd, Staughton
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    American author, activist, historian, and lawyer. (Born 1929).
  69. Maathai, Wangari
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    Winner of the1984 Right Livelihood Award and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1940).
  70. Maathai, Wangari
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    Winner of the 1984 Right Livelihood Award and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (1940-2011).
  71. Malcolm X
    The Man and His Ideas
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    Published: 1965
  72. Mandela, Nelson
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    Anti-apartheid leader, first black to be elected President of South Africa. (Born 1918).
  73. Martí, José
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    Cuban poet and rebel. (1953-1895).
  74. Marx, Eleanor
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    Socialist author and activist. (1855-1898).
  75. McNaughton, Violet
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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    Feminist, journalist and activist. (1879-1968).
  76. Menchú, Rigoberta
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    Winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1959).
  77. Mer-Khamis, Arna
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Israeli educator and human rights activist. (1929-1995).
  78. Moffatt, Gary
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    Published: 2010
    Canadian anarchist and activist.
  79. Munir
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Indonesian human rights activist. (1965-2004).
  80. Nader, Ralph
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    American attorney, author, lecturer, and political activist. (Born 1934).
  81. Nearing, Scott
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    American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and advocate of simple living. (1883-1983).
  82. Newton, Huey P.
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    Co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party. (1942-1989).
  83. Ochs, Phil
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    U.S. protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice. (1940 - 1976).
  84. Omido, Phyllis
    Wikipedia article
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    Phyllis Omido is a Kenyan environmental activist.
  85. 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.
  86. Orrego, Juan Pablo
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Chilean environment activist. (Born 1949).
  87. Paine, Thomas
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    Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).
  88. Parks, Rosa
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    African American civil rights activist. (1913-2005).
  89. Pauling, Linus
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    American chemist, peace activist, author, and educator. (1901-1994).
  90. PBI-Canada remembers peace activist Frank Showler
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    Published: 2022
    Frank Showler passed away on February 10, 2022 at the age of 102.
  91. Peltier, Leonard
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    American activist and member of the American Indian Movement. (Born 1944).
  92. Perlas, Nicanor
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Filipino opponent of corporate globalization. (Born 1950).
  93. Perlman, Fredy
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    Radical author, publisher and activist. (1934-1985).
  94. A Persistent Peace
    One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Jesuit priest John Dear ministers to the needy at the margins of society. He is a pacifist and anti-war activist who has spoken out against the Pentagon and the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq. His views about Christ's teachings on nonviolence have also made him a rebel in the Catholic Church.
  95. Politkovskaya, Anna
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    Russian journalist, author and human rights activist. (1958-2006).
  96. Rebick, Judy
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    Canadian feminist, writer, and activist. (Born 1945).
  97. la red del Che : the Che network
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    Website devoted to the life and work of Che Guevara.
  98. Reed, John
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    American journalist and communist activist. (1887-1920).
  99. Roback, Léa
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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    Union organizer, social activist. (1903-2000).
  100. Robeson, Paul
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    Musician, actor, speaker, lawyer, radical. (1898-1976).
  101. Roy, Arundhati
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    Indian writer (in English) and activist. (Born 1961).
  102. Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid
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    Published: 2013
    Two leading activists of the fight against Apartheid, Ruth First and Joe Slovo, for the first time have received a comprehensive biography.
  103. Saro-Wiwa, Ken
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Nigerian human rights activist. (1941-1995).
  104. Sartre, Jean-Paul
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    French philosopher. (1905-1980).
  105. Savio, Mario
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    American activist. (1942-1996).
  106. Schmeiser, Percy and Louise
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winners
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    Canadian farmers and opponents of GMO crops.
  107. Scholl, Hans
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    A member of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. (1918-1943).
  108. Scholl, Sophie
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    A member of the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. (1921-1943).
  109. Seeger, Pete
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    American folk singer. (Born 1919).
  110. Sewell, John
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    Political activist and writer on municipal affairs. The mayor of Toronto, Canada from 1978 to 1980. (Born 1940).
  111. 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).
  112. Shiva, Vandana
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    Philosopher, environmental activist, eco feminist and author. (Born 1952).
  113. Shiva, Vandana
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Environmental and women's activist. (Born 1952).
  114. Sivaraksa, Sulak
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Thai democracy activist. (Born 1933).
  115. Suzuki, David
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    Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. (Born 1936).
  116. Toledo, Francisco
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Mexican community activist. (Born 1940).
  117. 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'
  118. Truth, Sojourner
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    African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. (1797-1883).
  119. Tubman, Harriet
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    An African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. (1822-1913).
  120. Tutu, Desmond
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    South African cleric, activist and opponent of apartheid. (Born 1931).
  121. Watkins, Mel
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    Canadian political economist and activist. (Born 1932).
  122. Ida B. Wells
    A Black Woman's Fight Against Lynch Terror
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    Published: 2014
    Born a slave in 1862 in the middle of the Civil War, Ida B. Wells was in the forefront of the fight for black rights in the post-Reconstruction era -- a time of widespread lynch-rope terror when black people, although not returned to slavery, were being solidified as a race-colour caste at the bottom of American society. She refused to accommodate racist reaction in any way and so was anathema to those like Booker T. Washington and his apologists who repudiated militant struggle against the racist status quo.
  123. Wilberforce, William
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    British politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. (1759-1833).
  124. Williams, Jody
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    Winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1950).
  125. Winstanley, Gerrard
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    English Protestant religious reformer and political activist, a member of the True Levellers. (1609-1676).
  126. Malcolm X
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    African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. (1925-1965).
  127. Zinn, Howard
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    American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright. (1922-2010).

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