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Doug Peacock - Best friends with Edward Abbey - still alive and living in Montana with the grizzlies. He rescued Abbey from the hospital just weeks before he died. Doug along with Abbey and Abbey's wife Clark made it into the desert where Ed was laid asleep for eternity. Doug still returns to the grave. Democracy Now interview with Doug on 05/12/2009: Doug Peacock-05122009

 

Ernest Hemingway - "...became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris....."

 

Dr. Frank Lucido - ".....performing Medical Cannabis Consultations.....trained and certified in the practice of conventional medicine..." - Dr. Frank's Blog - more links

 

Laurie Anderson - "....experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles...."

 

Amory Lovins - cofounder of Rocky Mountain Institute - "....engaged in cutting-edge research on oil independence, renewable energy technologies, distributed energy, resource planning, green buildings , and radically efficient transportation...."

 

John F. Kennedy - deceased - "...the assassination still being debated...."

 

 

Martha Graham "...widely considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century...." - deceased

 

Jim Garrison - activist, lawyer - deceased - "....wrote three books on the Kennedy assassination, A Heritage of Stone (1970), The Star Spangled Contract, and the best-seller, On The Trail of The Assassins (1988)....."

 

Mae Brussell - activist, historian and radio host during the 60's in CA - deceased - "....networked with such people as Jim Garrison, Col. L. Fletcher Prouty, and Larry Flynt. Her first published article in Paul Krassner's The Realist was actually financed by John Lennon. And Frank Zappa...."

 

Anita Roddick - deceased - "Body Shop Founder & Environmental Campaigner Anita Roddick 1942-2007...."

 

Grace Paley - ".......acclaimed American poet, short story writer, and anti-war activist...." - deceased - Remembered

 

Max Roach - deceased - "....Over 2,000 people gathered at Riverside Church in New York on Friday for the funeral of the legendary drummer, educator and activist - Special Tribute...."

 

Cynthia McKinney - Peace Activist - "....spoke out against the Persian Gulf War, causing many legislators to walk out in protest at her remarks...." - For Congress

 

Emma Goldman - deceased - "....I want freedom, the right to self expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things....."

 

Jane Addams - deceased - ".....her adult night school which set the stage for the continuing education classes offered by many community colleges today...."

 

Scott Nearing - deceased - "....wrote pamphlets on low income, peace throughout the world, feminism, and many different environmental causes....."

 

Mike Ruppert - Creator of the now defunct: From the Wilderness -....economic and military analysis, detailed exposés of the CIA and the American political and economic system......a one man crusade trying to expose America's bogus war on drugs....author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil...the only book to show that Vice President Richard Cheney, the US government and Wall Street had a well-developed awareness of Peak Oil before the 9/11 attacks and..." - More

 

Ralph Nader - Consumer advocate and Peace Activist - Bio - Interview 07092007 with Democracy Now!

 

Patti Smith - "....Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame March 12, 2007. Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine gave Smith's induction speech. Smith dedicated her award to the memory of her late husband, Fred. Smith gave a performance of the Rolling Stones classic Gimme Shelter, a song she termed a great anti-war song. As the closing number of 2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction evening, Smith's "People Have the Power"..." - Patti Smith music site

 

Vanessa Redgrave - ".....has supported a range of human rights causes, including opposition to the Vietnam War, nuclear disarmament, independence for Ireland , freedom for Soviet Jews ...." - Interview 06132007 with Democracy Now!

 

Mavis Staples - "....Her voice has influenced artists from Bob Dylan to Prince (who dubbed her "the epitome of soul") and she has appeared with everyone from the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Bill Cosby, Presidents Kennedy, Carter, and Clinton, to Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Santana and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and has recorded with Bob Dylan, Los Lobos, Aretha Franklin, Marty Stuart and many others......"

 

Cisco Houston - deceased - "......fine folksinger, the definitive interpreter of Woody Guthrie's massive songbook....." - Bio

 

Mahalia Jackson - deceased - ".....her good friend Martin Luther King said "a voice like hers comes along once in a millennium"...."

 

David Dellinger - deceased - "....a renowned pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change, and one of the most influential American radicals in the 20th century..."

 

Eugene V. Debs - deceased - "....“For President Convict No. 9653, Debs received nearly one million votes that year!..."

 

Amy Goodman – author, journalist, TV personality and Peace Activist - Weekly Column - Anchor on Democracy Now! – One Hour, Weekly TV/Radio and Internet News Broadcast

 

Rachel Carson - deceased - ".....an American marine biologist whose landmark book, Silent Spring, is often credited with having launched the global environmental movement......" - http://www.rachelcarson.org/ - ...100th Birthday Special with Democracy Now!

 

John L. Lewis - deceaesd - "....was the driving force behind the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, which established the United Steel Workers of America and helped organize millions of other industrial workers in the 1930s...."

 

Helen Keller - deceaesd - "....went on to become a world famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities, as well as numerous causes..."

 

Mark Twain - deceaesd - "....began his career writing light, humorous verse but evolved into a grim, almost profane chronicler of the vanities, hypocrisies and murderous acts of mankind..."

 

Wang Wei Lin - ".....was the man who stood unflinching in front of a convoy of tanks moving their way up the ironically named 'Pathway of Everlasting Peace' from Tianamen Square in early June 1989...."

 

Juan Gonzalez – Columnist for The Daily News - NY's – finest! .......co-anchor of Democracy Now! – One Hour, Weekly Internet Broadcasts and TV/Radio News

 

Joe Conason - peace activist and author".....author of It Can Happen Here.......a select group of extremely powerful right-wing ideologues are driving us ever closer to the precipice....." - writes for The New York Observer

 

Chris Hedges- Peace Activist and Journalist - "....because when I was speaking out against the war, I was on the news staff of The New York Times, and ....." - Truthdig Interview

 

Bernie Sanders - "....Through eight terms in office, the former mayor of Burlington, Vt., has struck a maverick, middle path between Democrats and Republicans, agitating most often for pocketbook issues of importance to middle- and lower-class Americans: protecting Social Security, expanding access to lower-cost prescription drugs, raising the minimum wage, and promoting trade policies that protect rural and manufacturing jobs....." - Senator Sanders

 

Bill Moyers – author, journalist, TV personality and Peace Activist - Bill Moyers is Back with Bill Moyers Journal, airing Wednesday, April 25, 2007!...Interview April 25, 2007 on Democracy Now!...The debut episode is titled “Buying the War.” Moyers makes the case that the press has yet to come to terms with its role in enabling the Bush Administration to go to war on false pretenses....also previously.... On Faith and Reason - DemocracyNow Interview......

Keith Olbermann - "....without a doubt,one of the best news anchors on television today......" - Keith's Show, Countdown - Transcripts

 

Rocky Anderson - "....Mayor Anderson has gained international renown for his Salt Lake City Green Program...""..thousands of critics of the war in Iraq made their voices heard with a massive protest here in Salt Lake City. Among them was Salt Lake's Mayor, Rocky Anderson...." - Interview Sept. 26, 2006 with Democracy Now!

 

Sarah Vaughan - "....considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century...." - deceased

 

John Coltrane - ".....credited with reshaping modern jazz and with being the predominant influence on successive generations of musicians......" - died in 1967

 

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso - Official Site - deceased - ".....he painted the dove as symbol of peace, an image that became the icon of the world peace movement of the 1950s, reproduced on posters and postage stamps around the world. The dove was Picasso’s version of “All we are saying is give peace a chance - [John Lennon]”...."

 

Melanie Street Jewelry - ".....I draw great inspiration from the diverse natural landscape of the southwestern United States....."

 

Pete Seeger - "Our songs are like you and me, the product of a long human chain..."---Pete Seeger - 07032006 Interview with Democracy Now!

 

Buffy Sainte-Marie - ".....As part of a blacklist which affected Taj Mahal , Eartha Kitt and a host of other outspoken performers, her name was included on White House stationery as among those whose music "deserved to be suppressed"...." - Bio

 

Taj Mahal - "....he formed The Rising Sons with Ry Cooder, Ed Cassidy, Jesse Lee Kinkaid, Gary Marker, and Kevin Kelly...." - Bio

 

Eartha Kitt - "....distinctive voice has enthralled an entirely new generation of fans....." - Bio - "...made anti-war statements during a White House luncheon that reportedly made first lady Lady Bird Johnson weep uncontrollably...." - deceased

 

Jim Musselman - "...an activist attorney....founder...Appleseed Recordings is an independent record company...."

 

Charlie Haden - ".....one of the most politically outspoken jazz musicians of his time. During the middle of the Vietnam War, Haden formed the Liberation Music Orchestra that mixed songs from the Spanish Civil War, anti-war songs and a tribute to Che Guevera...." - More - Interview 090106 with Democracy Now!

 

Mayumi Oda - "....exhibited many one-woman shows in Japan, United States, and Europe from 1972 through 1990....Founded the PLUTONIUM FREE FUTURE organization in Berkeley, California and Tokyo, Japan to work to publicize the nuclear program in Japan, and stop the shipment of plutonium from France to Japan...."

 

The Waifs - ".... Being in a band is a marriage. 3 is an odd number. Independent means hard work. But to have the freedom to go where you want, with your closest friends and play music to anyone who chooses to listen, it's just the best thing......Vikki (1995)......" - Bio - Wow! this group is way into Sustainability and Social Justice! - BSOLR

 

Ed Rosenthal – marijuana advocate and Peace Activist - audio interview - stream Ed's 420 Report every 1st Friday (moving to the last Fiday of the month - look for this first change August 25) at 12 noon on The Living Room broadcast and streamed from KPFA - Berkeley, CA

 

Michael Moore - "...Academy Award winning American film director, author, and social commentator. He is widely known for his outspoken, critical views on globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, and the George W. Bush administration...." - Michael's personal website: Michael Moore.com - ".....Let the resounding defeat of Senator Joe Lieberman send a cold shiver down the spine of every Democrat who supported the invasion of Iraq...."

 

Jon Stewart - "....host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and .......political satire......"

 

Stephen Colbert - "...was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in 2006...." - star of the The Colbert Report

 

Neil Young – musician and Peace Activist - Neil's Personal Site – "....a member of the folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield in the mid-1960s and then as a solo performer backed by the band Crazy Horse...." – Video Interview on the The Colbert Report.

 

Dalai Lama – Spiritual Leader of Tibet and Peace Activist - Audio - (Interview about 9/11, September 25, 2003 with Democracy Now!) - More

 

Martin Amis - Writer - "....His work has prompted new considerations of realism, postmodernism, feminism, politics, and culture...." - Interview with Bill Moyers' new show, Faith and Reason

 

Margaret Atwood - Writer - ".....She has an uncanny knack for writing books that anticipate the popular preoccupations of her public..." - Interview with Bill Moyers' new show, Faith and Reason

 

Joseph Campbell – Joseph Campbell & Marija Gimbutas Library – author, Teacher and Peace Activist - deceased - Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Power of Myth

 

José Bové - "....a McDonalds in Millau, south-west France was dismantled by protesters just days before it was due to open....." - Bio

 

Dixie Chicks – musicians and Peace Activists - Audio - Taking the Long Way Home - Video on the David Letterman Show - (Thanks to Crooks and Liars)

 

Robert Redford - "....[Actor and founder of Sundance Institute].....support[s] environmentalism and Native American rights......"

 

Paul Robeson - "....sang and spoke out against racist conditions experienced by Asian and Black Americans; he condemned segregation....." - deceased

 

Frank Zappa - ''....most prolific musician-composers of his era, releasing over 60 albums during his lifetime, almost all of which consisted of original compositions.....testified before the US Senate Commerce, Technology, and Transportation committee, attacking the Parents Music Resource Center or PMRC, a music censorship ...." - Video with Frank on CNN Crossfire, 1987! - deceased

 

Food Not Bombs - ".....sharing free vegetarian food with hungry people and protesting war and poverty....an organization to end war in our lifetime...." - centered in Tucson, AZ

 

Ron Suskind - "..... "The One Percent Doctrine," is a revealing journey deep inside America's battles with violent, unrelenting terrorists -- a game of kill-or-be-killed, from the Oval Office to the streets of Karachi......" - Interview 7/14/06 with Democracy Now!

 

Sander Hicks - ".....[started] Vox Pop is a New York City's only union-shop, fair-trade coffeehouse/bookstore. Vox Pop recently published Hicks' new book, The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistle-Blowers, and the Cover-Up......" - Audio Interview_1 - Interwiew_2 with KPFA's "Guns & Butter" program

 

Percy Schmeiser - "....Monsanto, the giant multinational agro-chemical company that is at the forefront of developing genetically modified foods, accused him of patent infringement...." - Audio Interview_1 - Interiew_2 with KPFA's "Guns & Butter" program

 

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - "....known for their distinctive vocal harmonies and activist politics...." - Freedomn of Speech Tour 2006 (canceled in Phoenix due to ????)

 

Robert Scheer - "....his new book, "Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan and Clinton- and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush..." - Interview 7/10/2006 - with Democracy Now! - editor of Truthdig

 

Isaac Asimov - "....There were hundreds of scientists who did great scientific work and at the same time were religious. But they did not mix their religion and science....." - Interview with Bill Moyers 1987

 

Paul Stamets - Listen to Interview - owner of Fungi Perfecti - "...been a dedicated mycologist for over thirty years...discovered and coauthored four new species of mushrooms, and pioneered countless techniques in the field of edible and medicinal mushroom cultivation...." - Ready-to-grow Mushroom Patches

 

Greg Palast - "...investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering....his first reports appeared on BBC television and in the Guardian newspapers..." - Interview with Democracy Now!

 

James Carroll - "....Carroll lectures widely on Jewish-Christian reconciliation, on Catholic reform, and on the question of war and peace...." - Peace activist. Interview with Democracy Now!

 

Daniel Ellsberg - "....most famous government whistleblower of the twentieth century, Daniel Ellsberg. In 1969 he leaked the Pentagon Papers, setting in motion actions that would eventually topple the Nixon presidency and end the Vietnam War......" Interview 1 by Democracy Now! - Interview 2

 

Jane Fonda - "...actor, writer, producer, and political activist...."

 

Wole Soyinka - "...Legendary Nigerian playwright...first African to win a Nobel Prize in Literature...." -interview Part 1 - Part 2 - by Democracy Now!

 

The Rev. William Sloane Coffin : Peace Activist, deceased - Article by John Nichols

 

Mother Teresa - "...Albanian-born Indian Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity. Her work among the poverty-stricken of Kolkata (Calcutta)..."

 

Tom Tomorrow - "......Dan Perkins (born 1961 in Wichita, Kansas), better known by the pen name Tom Tomorrow, is an editorial cartoonist...."

 

Dennis Bernstein - "....Investigative reporter, radio host, human rights advocate and poet.....host of .KPFA's....Flashpoints Radio....."

 

Rachel Corrie - deceased - "....American peace activist....crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer....." - Rachel Corrie's Words on Third Anniversary of Her Death - Thanks to Democracy Now!

 

Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons - "....Since 1990, Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons have been assembling Bioneers for an annual conference, a gathering of scientific and social innovators who have demonstrated visionary and practical models for restoring the Earth and communities....."

 

John Trudell - "...poet, activist, recording artist......I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing its understanding of being human...."

 

Larry Bensky - "...a literary and political journalist with more than forty years experience in print and broadcast media..." - The morning host of Berkeley's KPFA radio show, Sunday Salon

 

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - Musicians and peace activists - "....On September 12th and 13th 2000, Rage Against The Machine performed their last two shows ever as a band...."

 

Danny Schechter - "...veteran journalist, media critic and co-founder of mediachannel.org...." - editor of the blog News Dissector

 

Leonard Peltier - "....a citizen of the Anishinabe and Lakota Nations, is a father, a grandfather, an artist, a writer, and an Indigenous rights activist. He has spent more than twenty-seven years in prison for a crime he did not commit...." - 2000 DemocracyNow Interview

 

Allister Sparks - "..legendary South African editor and reporter....on Wiretapping and Torture, Under Apartheid and Bush..." - DemocracyNow Interview

 

Buckminster Fuller - Deceased - inventor, activist, and visionary: "...concerned with the question of whether humanity has a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how....." Buckminster Fuller Institute - Earth Institute 4th biennial State of the Planet Conference - at Columbia University - March 28 & 29, 2006

 

Carlos Santana - Musician and activist - "...long history of social activism and contributions time and funds to humanitarian causes...."

 

Alice Walker - Author, Poet and Activist - "...She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for The Color Purple...." - DemocracyNow Interview

 

"Grandpa" Al Lewis - deceased - "....Actor and activist Al Lewis died at the age of 82. In the acting world, he was best known for playing Grandpa on the Munsters....." - DemocracyNow Interview

 

Betty Friedan - deceased - "...feminist crusader and author whose searing first book, "The Feminine Mystique," ignited the contemporary women's movement in 1963 and..."

 

Harry Belafonte - Singer and activist - DemocracyNow Interview

 

Stevie Wonder - "...A tireless humanitarian and champion for political and social justice, Wonder was the preeminent force behind ....."

 

Eugene McCarthy - "...McCarthy and the Vietnam War will be forever linked......It was in 1968 when the Democratic Senator from Minnesota broke party ranks...."- Click here for DemocracyNow.org transcript - deceased

 

Mike Farrell - "....issues are largely those involving human rights and the death penalty. But Mike is also known to speak out against local injustices, animal rights, environmental issues, etc...."

 

Jonathan Kozol - "Apartheid Education in America " Interview - interview with F.A.I.R (Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting)

 

Randi Rhodes - a fascinating intellect, fresh and honest, ".....call-in and commentary with a liberal bent....." - on Government Corruption

 

Jimmy Carter - 39th President of the United States of America - Interview with Air America's Al Franken

 

Jane Goodall - "....English primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist, probably best-known for conducting a forty-year study of chimpanzee social and family life, as director of the Jane Goodall Institute...." - DemocracyNow Interview

 

Rosa Parks - "...civil rights activist whom the United States Congress called the Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement.... She is most famous for ...." - deceased

 

Nina Simone - ".. Doctor in Music and Humanities High Priestess of Soul
Queen of African Rooted Classical Music...." - deceased

 

Art Buchwald - "...American humorist best known for his long-running column in The Washington Post newspaper...." - "...is at present syndicated by Tribune Media Services. His column appears in some 300 newspapers from..." - Tribune Biography

 

Kurt Vonnegut - deceased - "...Vonnegut trained as a chemist and worked as a journalist before joining...." more - Kurt's Talk

 

Barry Crimmins - Political Satirist - Never Shake Hands with a War Criminal

 

Paul Krassner - "...editor and frequent contributor to the Freethought magazine The Realist, which, first published in 1958, is a very early example of the "underground" countercultural press...."

 

Sean Penn - "...Penn placed a $56,000 advertisement in the Washington Post asking President George W. Bush to end a cycle of violence...."

 

Scott Ritter - " ...a Democracy Now! interview: the Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein..."

 

Susan Sarandon - activist and actor

 

George Clooney - activist and actor

 

Cindy Sheehan - Oh how we love you and hurt for your loss

 

Ramsey Clark - "...Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark Calls ForImpeachment of President Bush...." - Ramsey Clark Interview

 

Ossie Davis - deceased - "...Ossie Davis and his wife, actress Ruby Dee (they married in 1948), were well-known civil rights activists....." Democracy Now Interview with Danny Glover

 

Kevin Costner - actor and peace activist

 

MP George Galloway - "...Campaigning against sanctions on Iraq, he made several visits to that country..." - Interview (with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now)

 

Tim Robbins - actor and peace activist

 

Gaylord Nelson - deceased this July 3, 2005 - "....was an unwavering advocate for the environment, first within his home state of Wisconsin, later nationally and internationally......"

 

Elmer Maas - deceased this May 10, 2005 - "member of the Isaiah Peace Ministry and participant of two previous plowshares actions"..."swam and canoed up the Thames River to the USS Pennsylvania Trident submarine, docked at the......"

 

Woody Harrelson -Woody's website: Voice Yourself - A guide to simple Organic Living - with Woody Harrelson and Friends

 

Roy Orbison - deceasd - One of the original Sun Records rockabilly artists recording alongside Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis......

 

Joan Baez - some artists live in history - and the lives of other artists are history....

 

Robert Jensen - Professor of Journalism, activist, writer and teacher

 

 

Senator Paul Wellstone - deceased - "....There are plenty of people in Congress who vote right, but Paul did everything right. We didn't have to ask him, we didn't have to lobby him, he understood. It was like having one of us in Congress...."

 

David Suzuki - We are the environment. There is no distinction. ~ David Suzuki, Bioneers 2003

 

Jerry Garcia – musician and Peace Activist - deceased

 

Abbie Hoffman – advocate of non-violent dissent and leader of Woodstock Nation Movement - deceased

 

Jimi Hendrix – musician and Peace Activist - deceased - more

 

Arianna Huffington- ....a nationally syndicated columnist and author of ten books.....editor of Huffington Post - "...55% Say Bush's Presidency Is A Failure...."

 

Jim Hightower - National radio commentator, writer, public speaker and author

 

Helen Caldicott, MD - has devoted 35 years of her life to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age, and the changes in human behavior necessary to stop environmental destruction

 

Cat Stevens a.k.a. Yusuf Islam - musician icon living in England

 

Desmond Tutu – Priest, Author, Teacher and Peace Activist

 

Ansel Adams - Photographer, conservationist - deceased

 

John Muir- America's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist - deceased

 

Edward Abbey - author, voiced the belief that the West was in danger of being developed to death, and that the only solution lay in the preservation of wilderness - deceased

 

Howard Zinn - "...historian and a playwright. He taught at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, then at Boston University. He was active in the civil rights movement, and in the movement against the Vietnam war. He has written many books, his best known being A People's History of the United States....Audio of Voices from "A Peoples History" - (Thank You Democracy Now! )

 

Noam Chomsky Rocks and Rules – author, Teacher and Peace Activist - Audio 03312006 - 04032006 - (Thank You Democracy Now!)

 

Ziggy Marley  – musician and Peace Activist - "....URGE acts to help children. Where there is a lack, URGE seeks to make enduring contributions: to improve the communities in which children learn, live and grow, in hopes of nourishing their future...."

 

Paul Krugman - Paul Krugman joined The New York Times in 1999 as a columnist on the Op-Ed Page - unofficial Paul Krugman web page

 

Woody Guthrie - embraced for his Steinbeckian homespun wisdom and musical "authenticity" by leftist organizations, artists, writers, musicians, and other intellectuals - deceased

 

Richard P. Feynman - "....Nobelist Physicist, teacher, storyteller, bongo player....." - deceased - 4-part lecture

 

Naomi Klein - Klein is the author of the book Fences and Windows: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate - Official Site

 

Laura Flanders - "...cuts through the news and blather of the week and talks directly to the activists, newsmakers and artists who are making change...." - Radio Nation

 

John Nichols - "....has written the Online Beat since 1999. His posts have been circulated internationally, quoted in numerous books and mentioned in debates on the floor of Congress...."

 

 

Arundhati Roy – Lecturer, Peace activist and writer from India - Interview - 052406 - (with Democracy Now!)

 

Norman Mailer – playwright and journalist - Peace Activist - more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonnie Raitt – musician and Peace Activist

 

 

John Mellencamp – musician and Peace Activist

 

Steve Earle – musician and Peace Activist

 

Maya Angelou – Poet and Peace Activist

 

 

 

 

Nelson Mandela – advocate of non-violent dissent, leader of South Africa and responsible for the abolishment of apartheid

 

Ravi Shankar – musician and Peace Activist

 

Bruce Cockburn – musician and Peace Activist

 

Albert Einstein – Nobel Prize Physicist, Peace Activist - deceased

 

George Harrison – musician and Peace Activist - deceased

 

Bob Marley – musician and Peace Activist - deceased

 

Tim O’Brien – musician and Peace Activist

 

Greg Brown – musician and Peace Activist

 

Iris DeMent – musician and Peace Activist

 

John Lennon – musician and Peace Activist

 

Ratdog – musician and Peace Activist

 

David Grisman - "Dawg" – musician and Peace Activist

 

Bob Dylan – musician and Peace Activist

 

Peter Rowan – musician and Peace Activist

 

Ken Kesey  - Peace Activist - deceased

 

Grateful Dead – musicians and Peace Activist

 

Molly Ivins – DemocracyNow Interview – author and Peace Activist - deceased January 31, 2007

 

John Cowan – musician and Peace Activist

 

 

Studs Terkel – deceased at 96 years young, author, Journalist and Peace Activist - (audio) Interview

 

Marlon Brando – actor and Peace Activist - deceased - A Eulogy

 

Gore Vidal – author, Journalist and Peace Activist

Al Gore - Former Vice-President - AlGore. com - Global Warming activist and author of An Inconvenient Truth

 

Mumia Abu Jamal  – author, Journalist, radio personality and Peace Activist – on Pennsylvania’s Death Row

 

Yonder Mountain String Band – musicians and Peace Activist

 

Leftover Salmon – musicians and Peace Activist

 

Railroad Earth – musicians and Peace Activist

 

Paul McCartney – musician and Peace Activist

 

Joules Graves – musician and Peace Activist

 

Wavy Gravy - Peace Activist and the original Hippy Geezer - Wavy's Bio.

 

Willie Nelson – musician and Peace Activist - "...the president and founder of Farm Aid...."

 

String Cheese Incident – musicians and Peace Activist

 

Dennis Kucinich – US Congressman and Peace Activist

 

Timothy Leary - deceased "....Leary was arrested and imprisoned for possession of a single marijuana joint...."

 

Michael Franti and Spearhead – musicians and Peace Activist

 

Dr. Edgar Wayburn - A former five-term president of the Sierra Club.....deceased

 

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