Institute of Global Communications - Activism Gateway
PRELIMINARY LIST OF ACTIVISTS
Feminism
Amazon
Castle- lists 30 famous feminists
Tori Amos
Eleanor Roosevelt
Guerilla Girls
Ani DiFranco
Gloria Steinem
Molly Ivins
Animal Rights
Cleveland Amory
Alice Walker
Marjorie Spiegal
Human Rights
Lech Walesa - Poland
Rigoberta Menchu Tum - Guatemala; indigenous people
Elie Wiesel - Jews
Dennis Banks - American Indian Movement
Gay/Lesbian
Roberta Achetenberg
Eigel Axgil (aka Eigel Eskildsen)
David Mixner
Peace
John Hume - Ireland
David Tremble - "
Betty Williams - "
Mairead Corrigan - "
Dorothy Day - pacifist throughout WWII
Peter, Paul and Mary - South/Latin America
Kim Dae Jung - South Korea, East Asia
Death Penalty
Rage Against the Machine
Civil Rights
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
Frederick Douglass
Nelson Mandela
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Arnold (Arnie) Aronson
Aurthur Robert Ashe Jr.
Ella Jo Baker
Daisy Lee Bates
Mary Jane Bethune
Stephen (Steve, Steven) Biko
Al Sharpton
Environmental
Dave Foreman
Julia Butterfly
Edward Abbey - writer
Homero Ardjis
David Ross Brower
Political/Religious
Mohandis K. Gandhi
Robert James Billings - Christian/moral
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - anti-Nazi
David Karesh
The Unabomber
Labor
Clement Richard Attlee
Homeless/ Poverty/ Hunger
Dorothy Day
Mother Theresa
Frances Moore Lappe
Jesus
Conservativie Issues
Rush Limbaugh
Howard Phillips