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Theodore “Ted” Hayes, Jr. (born March 9, 1951 in Columbus, Georgia) is an American advocate for the homeless and an activist.
Betty Van Patter (c.1932 – December 13, 1974) was a bookkeeper for the Black Panther Party who was beaten and killed in a crime which has never been solved.
Jerzy Rutkowski (23 April 1914, Kiev – 18 December 1989, Warsaw) was a Polish political activist and resistance soldier. During World War II, he joined Polish resistance (Armia Krajowa) and was the head of the underground press operation, the Tajne
George Lester Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was an African-American left-wing activist, Marxist, author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family while incarcerated. Jackson achieved fame as
Sabri Jiryis (Arabic: صبري جريس, Ṣābri Jiryis; born in 1938), also known as Sabri Jaris, Sabri Geries or Sabri Jirais, is a Palestinian-Arab Israeli writer and lawyer, a graduate of the Hebrew University law faculty, and prominent Pales
Sheila Ison Wellstone (August 18, 1944 – October 25, 2002) was an advocate for human rights, the environment, and peace. She was married to U.S. Senator from Minnesota Paul Wellstone. Wellstone focused much of her work on domestic violence, assisti
Dana Olmert (born March, 1972), is an Israeli left wing activist, literary theorist and editor. She is a daughter of Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Jeffrey David “Jeff” Olson (born January 18, 1973) is an American activist, bureaucrat, and snowboard instructor best known for being tried on vandalism charges resulting from a series of incidents where he was accused of using washable, children’s s
Aaron Saxton (born 1974) is a former Scientologist and member of the organisation’s elite group called the Sea Org. He contacted Senator Nick Xenophon of Australia, who quoted statements by Saxton about Scientology into the parliamentary record of th
Aijo Beness (Russian: Айо Бенес, born 8 June 1979 in Rēzekne, Latvian SSR) is a UK-based Latvian citizen and an activist of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist), and the Korean Friendship Association-UK. Beness has parti