Nominated for: her work to alleviate poverty and hunger, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. She is a co-founder of The Pachamama Alliance, and founder of The Soul of Money Institute.
For more information: http://www.lynnetwist.com/
Nominated for: her work in urban revitalization, environmental justice, pro-community & green economic development.
For more information: http://www.majoracartergroup.com/
Nominated for: his work during the civil rights movement and speaking out about kyriarchies (overlapping and interconnected oppressions).
For more information: http://rustin.org/?page_id=2
http://rustin.org/?page_id=11
Nominated for: his recent work in environmental conservation, law and governance and his past anti-apartheid work.
For more information: http://www.cullinans.co.za/
https://orionmagazine.org/article/if-nature-had-rights/
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/x3479e/x3479e00.pdf
Nominated for: Transgender and labor rights activism.
Quotes: “Everybody’s scared, but if you don’t let your fears stop you, that’s bravery!”
“We are pitted against each other in order to keep us from seeing each other as allies. Genuine bonds of solidarity can be forged between people who respect each other’s differences and are willing to fight their enemy together. We are the class that does the work of the world, and can revolutionize it. We can win true liberation.”
For more information: http://www.transgenderwarrior.org/
Nominated for: his indigenous rights activism in support of self-sufficiency, spiritual and traditional culture, and youth. He has been in jail since 1975 and is recognized by the international community as a political prisoner wrongfully convicted of murder.
For more information: http://www.ipoaa.com/leonard_peltier_biography.htm
http://www.freeleonard.org/case/
http://www.leonardpeltier.net/theman.htm
Nominated for: campaigned for disability rights since her teens and did a 2014 Ted talk on “inspiration porn” that got the world thinking.
For more information: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-ouch-30385421
Nominated for: Dr. Karraa was nominated for her work in mental health and families, particularly post-partum depression in women. She created stigmama.com to create a space for women to “speak their truths in a non judgmental, supportive, creative community. We need the wisdom and support of others to unpack stigma of mental difference in motherhood.”
For more information: http://www.drwalkerkarraa.com/
http://www.stigmama.com
http://www.scienceandsensibility.org/author/walker-karraa/
Nominated For: being a fierce labor organizer and fighter for the working class in the early days of the movement, when such activities could very easily get you killed. She strove especially hard for miners and to abolish child labor.
Frequently arrested for her hell-raising ways, she was once in court when objections were raised to the defendants’ profanity-laced testimony. When called out by the judge she said:
“Why, Judge,” Mother Jones said, “That’s how working people pray.”
“Do *you* pray that way, Mother?” the Judge asked.
“When I want an answer in a hurry, I do!” she replied.
Quotes: “Pray for the dead, fight like hell for the living!”
“I have been in jail more than once and I expect to go again. If you are too cowardly to fight, I will fight.”
For more information: http://www.aflcio.org/About/Our-History/Key-People-in-Labor-History/Mother-Jones-1837-1930
Nominated for: being a union/labor organizer, his political songs, satirical poems, and being a rousing orator.
For more information:
http://www.iwwbookreview.com/The-Man-Who-Never-Died.htm
http://www.aflcio.org/About/Our-History/Key-People-in-Labor-History/Joe-Hill-1879-1915
http://www.joehill.org/
http://www.folkarchive.de/hill.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2005/8/25/exclusive_joan_baez_performs_joe_hill
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