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Dennis Kucinich US Representative Ohio

Rep. Kucinich has attracted attention for bringing articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush and VP Dick Cheney. He is a proponent of Universal Health Care, Guaranteed Quality Education, Pre-K Through College and Clean Energy.     WIKI Link       TWITTER           (216) 252-9000

Bernie Sanders US Senator (Vermont) Independent / Socialist

The Senator  is a self-described democratic socialist, and has praised European social democracy. In 1964, Bernie Sanders moved to Vermont, where he worked as a carpenter, filmmaker, writer, researcher and Mayor.   WIKI Link

Alan Grayson Ex Florida Senator WIKI Link

Jessie Ventura Ex Governor Minn

Elizabeth Warren Canidate US Senate Law Professor

Elizabeth Warren  is an American attorney, law professor, and United States Senate candidate. She served as Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.     WIKI Link

Active   Contributors

Naom Chomsky Libertarian Socialist Author

Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics     WIKI Link

Laura Flanders Broadcast Journalist Host of GRIT tv

British-born US-based journalist who presents the current events show GRITtv, broadcast weekdays on Link and Free Speech TV.   WIKI Link           DISH TV 9415   Direct TV 348

David Graeber Anthropologist Author History of Debt

an American anthropologist and anarchist who currently holds the position of Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London Author of "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology" and "Debt: The first 5,000 years"     WIKI Link

Van Jones Civil Rights Activist Author

Van Jones  is a globally recognized, award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean-energy economy. Jones had served as adviser to the White House Council on Environmental Quality.   WIKI Link   TWITTER

Prof. Richard D. Wolff Economist Author Capatilism Hits The Fan

Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008.     TWITTER     WIKI Link

Muhammad Yunus Created micro-loans

In Bangladesh Yunus carried on giving out 'micro-loans', and in 1983 formed the Grameen Bank, meaning 'village bank' founded on principles of trust and solidarity.     WIKI Link

Charles Ferguson Filmmaker WIKI Link

Michael Moore Michael Moore Cinama WEB Link

Michael Reynolds Author, Architect Earthship Developer

Amy Goodman Broadcast Journalist Host of Democracy Now!

American progressive broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author. Goodman is the principal host of Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the internet.     TWITTER     WIKI Link           DISH TV 9415   Direct TV 348

Thom Hartmann Political Commentator The Thom Hartmann Program Author Rebooting the American Dream

American radio host, author, former psychotherapist and entrepreneur, and progressive political commentator. His nationally-syndicated radio show, The Thom Hartmann Program, airs in the United States and has 2.75 million unique listeners a week.     WIKI Link       DISH TV 9415   Direct TV 348

14th Dalai Lama Nobel Peace Prize Author My Spiritual Journey

Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, and is also well known for his lifelong advocacy for Tibetans inside and outside Tibet. Tibetans traditionally believe him to be the reincarnation of his predecessors and a manifestation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion     WIKI Link

Historically Significant People

Edward Abbey environmentalist, Author The Monkey Wrench Gang

American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies.     WIKI Link

Cesar Chavez Co-Founder United Farm Workers

Cesar Estrada Chavez - March 31, 1927 Ð April 23, 1993) was an American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW).     WIKI Link

Molly Ivins Journalist

Writing from an unabashed liberal perspective, Ivins repeatedly described herself as a populist and, on some occasions, as a left-libertarian. Check Wiki for her extensive writing credits.   WIKI Link

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Social Activist Women Suffrage Movement

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Helped initiate the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States   WIKI Link

Howard Zinn Historian & Author A People's History of the US

American historian, author, political activist, playwright, intellectual and Professor of Political Science at Boston University from 1964 to 1988.He wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States.     WIKI Link

Rachel Carson Educator Marine Biologist

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Educator / Explorer Marine Biologist

Theodore Rosevelt 1st Progressive President Environomentalist

George Washington Carver Educator Agricultural Inventor

John Muir Educator / Explorer Environmentalist

Sir Arthur C Clarke Author, Scientist, Diver A Space Odyssey, Radar

Gandhi Peace Activist India

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