One Hundred Contemporary Exemplars of Peace Advocacy and Activism: The First Fifty
by Kathie Malley-Morrison & Anthony J. Marsella
During this week, while we are honoring one of America’s greatest heroes, a man who personified many of the highest ethical values for which human beings can strive, we want to honor other activists promoting peace, social justice, and preservation of the earth. We are proposing 100 names — 50 today and 50 in the next post — for your consideration. It is a diverse list–with men and women from a broad range of nations, a variety of religious faiths, and a rainbow of skin colors.
Some of the names are likely to be familiar to you; others may not be. You can click on each name to learn about that person and what he or she has done to earn our recognition. Please send us your own nominations for membership in this group of leaders, with links to sites describing their efforts.
Here are our first 50 names;
- Abdul-Jabbar: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Adams: David Adams
- Albertini: James Albertini
- Assange: Julian Assange
- Atzmon: Gilad Atzmon
- Avnery: Uri Avnery
- Bacevich: Andrew Bacevich
- Baroud: Ramzy Baroud
- Benjamin: Medea Benjamin
- Berrigan: Frida Berrigan
- Binney: William Binney
- Blum: Willam Blum
- Burrowes: Robert J. Burrowes
- Caldicott: Helen Caldicott
- Caputi: Ross Caputi
- Castro: Gustavo Castro
- Chiponda: Melania Chiponda
- Chomsky: Noam Chomsky
- Coates: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Cole: Juan Cole
- Cook: Michelle Cook
- Dalai: Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
- Davis: Angela Davis
- De Rosa: Antonio de Rosa
- Ebadi: Shirin Ebadi
- Eidelson: Roy Eidelson
- Ellsberg: Daniel Ellsberg
- Engelhardt: Tom Engelhardt
- Falk: Richard Falk
- Feeley: Tom Feeley
- Fonda: Jane Fonda
- Galtung: Johan Galtung
- Garza: Alicia Garza
- Giroux: Henry A. Giroux
- Goodman: Amy Goodman
- Gorbachev: Mikhail Gorbachev
- Greenwald: Glen Greenwald
- Guevara-Rosas: Erika Guevara-Rosas
- Haugen: Gary Haugen
- Hedges: Chris Hedges
- Hersh: Seymour Hersh
- Hightower: Jim Hightower
- Ikeda: Daisaku Ikeda
- Jamail: Dahr Jamail
- Jones: Van Jones
- Kalaygian: Ani Kalayjian
- Karman: Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman
- Kelly: Kathy Kelly
- Killelea: Steve Killelea
- Kiriakou: John Kiriakou