Activists and Humanitarians
Medea Benjamin (born Susan Benjamin; September 10, 1952) is an American political activist, best known for co-founding Code Pink and, along with activist and author Kevin Danaher, the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. Benjamin was also the Green Party candidate in California in 2000 for the United States Senate.
In 1988 with Kevin Danaher and Kirsten Moller, Benjamin co-founded the San Francisco-based Global Exchange, which advocates fair trade alternatives to what she describes as corporate globalization. In 2002, she co-founded the feminist anti-war group Code Pink: Women for Peace, which advocated an end to the Iraq War, the prevention of future wars, and social justice. Benjamin has also been involved with the anti-war organization United for Peace and Justice. - Text from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_Benjamin - Image from: https://www.laprogressive.com/killer-drones-warfare/ - Official Site: http://www.codepink.org/ |
David Bollier is an American activist, writer, and policy strategist. He is co-founder of the Commons Strategy Group, Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, and writes technology-related reports for the Aspen Institute. Bollier collaborated with television writer/producer Norman Lear on a variety of non-television, public affairs projects from 1985 to 2010. Bollier was founding editor of On the Commons, and now blogs at his own website. Bollier calls his work “focused on reclaiming the commons, understanding how digital technologies are changing democratic culture, fighting the excesses of intellectual property law, fortifying consumer rights and promoting citizen action.” Bollier co-founded the public interest group Public Knowledge and served as a board member until 2010. He is awarded the 2012 Bosch Berlin Prize in Public Policy at the American Academy in Berlin.
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- Official Site: http://www.bollier.org
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- Image by: Joi Ito (originally posted to Flickr as David Bollier) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]
- Watch at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS5VEEepjdk
- Official Site: http://www.bollier.org
David Rolfe Graeber (/ˈɡreɪbər/; born 12 February 1961) is an American anthropologist, author, anarchist and activist who is currently Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Specialising in theories of value and social theory, he was an assistant professor and associate professor of anthropology at Yale University from 1998 to 2007, although Yale controversially declined to rehire him. From Yale, he went on to become a Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London from Fall 2007 to Summer 2013. Graeber has been involved in social and political activism, including the protests against the 3rd Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in 2001 and the World Economic Forum in New York City in 2002. He is also a leading figure in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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- Watch at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPeaFKvszKI
- Read at: http://strikedebt.org/The-Debt-Resistors-Operations-Manual.pdf
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- Image by David Graeber [CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
- Watch at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPeaFKvszKI
- Read at: http://strikedebt.org/The-Debt-Resistors-Operations-Manual.pdf