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Linked with The Federal Reserve is Bankrupt, with The Real Significance of the Fed’s Zero-Interest-Rate Policy ZIRP, with Part 4 – Wall Street’s Perverse Logic, and with Bernd Senf – Germany (and with all its english and german links).

Matthias Chang is a Malaysian of Chinese descent. He is a Barrister of 31 years standing and once served as the Political Secretary to the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. He is the author of three bestsellers, “Future FastForward”, “Brainwashed for War, Programmed to Kill”, and “The Shadow Money-Lenders and the Global Financial Tsunami”, published in the US and in Malaysia. Since his student days in England in the late 1960s, he was and still is, actively involved in the anti-war movement spanning a period of 41 years. He is a Catholic but enjoins all to promote inter-faith understanding. He resides in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia … (full text).

His website: Future Fastforward.

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Matthias Chang – Malaysia

His Address to American Patriots at the 2006 TBR-AFP Conference in Washington D.C.:
2 short excerpts: … Firstly: We, in Malaysia are no stranger to the goodness of America and your free Constitution. Strange as it may sound, your Constitution has inspired a generation of freedom fighters in the third world following World War II and continues to inspire people throughout the world even as the United States is waging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and threatening insane nuclear strikes against Iran and Syria …
… secondly: … I am not ashamed to admit in front of you that when I first saw the brutally deformed babies in the pediatric wards of various hospitals in Iraq – the result of depleted uranium radiation – and the wanton destruction and pain, anguish ripped through my guts and, as tears welled in my eyes, I prayed and prayed for strength to live through that horrifying day. And I vowed on that day that we must campaign to stop the killings. Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, in the Perdana Global Peace Conference in December 2005, called on the world to criminalize war. If murder is a crime during peacetime in our society, killing in time of war is also a crime. If we are civilized, war cannot be an option in the settlement of disputes between nations … (full long text).

Find him and his publications on ;
on Global Research.ca; on his website: GEOPOLITICAL ANALYSIS, FINANCIAL ANALYSIS, MILITARY / INTELLIGENCE; on Google Group-search; on inauthor Google-search; on Google Book-search; on Google Scholar-search; on Google Blog-search.

He writes:

• … The Blame Game: It would be naïve to assume that the status quo would remain, when the Global Trillion Dollar Casino is for all intents and purposes broken down beyond repair.
  Confirmation that the blame game has started in earnest can be found in the aforesaid remarks of President Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown on March 3, 2009 given after their meeting at the Oval Office and Brown’s speech to Congress on March 4, 2009.
  Let us come back to the issue of the money-lenders. For some strange reason, many people are put off by the term “money-lenders” but are ever so comfortable with bankers.
  But are not bankers, money-lenders?
  In fact I would say that money-lenders are more honourable than your high street bankers, as they can only rob you in the millions. The global bankers, they rape and plunder in the trillions!
  Is it any wonder that Gordon Brown and President Obama, the political representatives of the Power Elites have decided that it is about time that these financial harlots are to be brought under control before they wreck the entire global power structure?
  Let us have no illusions about Obama and Gordon Brown. They are going after these financial harlots not because they want to protect us from these criminals, but because for too long the political faction had to play second fiddle to the financial faction in the overall scheme of global one world government.
  Until lately, money power triumphed over political power. However, when the entire financial system broke into pieces, it was time to settle scores!
  Read for yourself: … (full text, March 7, 2009);
• … When the Dow was 14,000, I advised my friends that it will soon dive below 11,000. Further research showed that even at this level, it could not be sustained and I gave the call to short the Dow as it would plunge below 9,000. These facts can be verified in my books, The Shadow Money-Lenders and Will Barisan Nasional Survive Beyond 2010? published in early 2008 and the articles posted to this website! Not one political / financial analyst in Malaysia dare make such calls. They were completely out of the loop, frolicking in La La land and telling fairy tales that a “new era of prosperity was on the horizon. Good times are here for good”. This was even after the collapse of Bear Stearns in 2007 and Lehman Bros in 2008 … (full text, March 3, 2009);
• … This is the third time that a catastrophic event is invoked to justify a certain course of action.
  Why?
  That it is Warren Buffett who is making this reference is most telling, for he is the hidden economic and financial adviser to President Obama. Warren Buffett has in fact said that Obama is the best man for the job!
  Warren Buffett is not the effable businessman that the mass media make him out to be. He is an insider in every sense of the word.
  I have said repeatedly for over two years that there is an ongoing global currency warfare and what is at stake is the hegemony of the US dollar. Warren Buffet knows that if the dollar ends up officially as toilet paper, his fortune and that of his global partnership – the hidden manipulators would be finished.
  This message that the US is in an economic Pearl Harbor is meant for the enemy, as yet to be disclosed to the American public. It is a warning no less.
  President Obama has echoed the sentiments in the course of his inauguration speech.
  Food for thought: … (full text, January 23, 2009); Continue Reading…

nked with Obama Should Worry About the Bush Family Tentacles Undermining His Plans.

Russ Baker is an award-winning investigative reporter with a track record for making sense of complex and little understood matters. He has written for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the Nation, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice and Esquire. He has also served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. Baker received a 2005 Deadline Club award for his exclusive reporting on George W. Bush’s military record. He is the founder of WhoWhatWhy /the Real News Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organization, operating at whowhatwhy.com. (on family of secrets.com).

He says (on Bush): … “Based on early feedback, I’d say there are a number of contenders. Could be the four chapters of never-before-revealed facts surrounding the JFK assassination. Or the evidence I have uncovered suggesting a new interpretation of Watergate. Some are most intrigued by the new examples of George W. as a naughty fellow and moral hypocrite – including on the matter of abortion. And some say that my examination of W.’s military service record is especially effective in settling the dispute over whether this eager-beaver “warrior king” skipped out on his own military obligations. Finally, some are most struck by the new evidence of a cynical calculation behind George W’s so-called religious rebirth. For me, the big story is simply the cumulative sense, based on hundreds and hundreds of fresh facts, of the extent to which elites write our history. And the realization that, as we flee the Bush years, we remain utterly in the dark about so much … (on russbakeer.com, December 30, 2008).

Russ Baker is the founder of the Real News Project (seems still under construction today). He may be reached by e-mail. (on The Nation, 2008).

His website.

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Russ Baker – USA

Watch these videos:

• Russ Baker 02 10 09 You Tube Compression, 58.31 min, January 31, 2009;
• Russ Baker speaks on Bush and war, 5.07 min, January 20, 2007;
• GRITtv Panel: Janeane Garofalo, Russ Baker and Jeff, 27.32 min, Jan 16, 2009.

… According to his own website: “Russ Baker is an old-fashioned muckraking journalist and pamphleteer using the newest technologies. In his reporting and writing he brings the best of mainstream methods (balance and rigor) to the alternative media, and the best of the alternative media (passion for the truth and the larger story) to the mainstream. He focuses on getting past the rhetoric to expose the hidden levers and machinations that shape our world. Baker’s investigative reporting, analysis pieces, features, and essays on politics, power, and perceptions have appeared in many of the world’s finest publications” … (full text).

Reviews of the book: Family of Secrets, The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America, by Russ Baker, (Bloomsbury. 577 pp.):

• He (Gore Vidal) has some kind things to say about Family of Secrets, beginning at about the four-minute mark: There’s a wonderful book, by the way, I’m reading called Family of Secrets by…Russ Baker. He spent many years on it. And it’s a family — forgive me, Bushes and Bushettes — a family of criminals. Why they’re not all in jail I don’t know. If I seem a little dazed, I’ve been reading about their crimes, and proposed crimes, and how they got away with it. (on familyofsecrets.com, February 25, 2009);
• … Baker begins this dispiriting tome with a couple of reasonable questions that probably are on a great many minds as George W. Bush’s disastrous presidency sputters to a close: “What did the ascendancy of this frighteningly inadequate man signify? Could anything be learned from the George W. Bush phenomenon that would help us understand how we Americans choose our leaders and chart our collective course?” … (full text, January 7, 2009);
• Halfway through the concluding chapter of Family of Secrets, Russ Baker mentions, not entirely modestly, that when a colleague heard some of the things he would be disclosing in his almost 600-page book about the Bush family and its connections to John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Watergate and many other pivotal events, the colleague suggested, only half in jest, that the book be called Everything You Thought You Knew Is Wrong … (full text);
• family of secrets – flowing data, added by visual think map on 15 February 2009;
• as long as Bush is trying to shape his legacy on his way out the door … Russ Baker examines the history of the Bush family … interviewed hundreds of people … tons of footnotes … 577pp. Baker explains the 4 generations of the Bush family and the tentacles of their power and influence … (full text);
• Linda Eckstein sent this graphic along to show the main ideas of Russ Baker’s Family of Secrets. In Linda’s words, “[T]he idea was for me to come up with a visual representation of the scope and complexity of Baker’s book. In a way, it’s the unWordle. Wordle only analyzes what is said, sometimes it’s necessary to remind the public of what is NOT said” … (full text).

… BuzzFlash has often said that “conspiracy theories” exist because a threshold of people believe that the official version of an event or personal history does not pass the believability test.  But then the fun begins, because theories are just that, so you become an advocate of one perspective or the other, hopefully based on the strength of the argument and the backing of documentation.  But that becomes more difficult as time passes and access to the unofficial version of events becomes more difficult … (full text, 12/30/2008);

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Linked with Madrasa education myth and reality, with The Two Circles.net, and with Islamic banking in India: Challenges and prospects.

Asghar Ali Engineer is a Muslim scholar and engineer. Internationally he is known for his work on liberation theology in Islam, the leader of the Progressive Dawoodi Bohra movement, and his work on (and action against) communalism and communal and ethnic violence in India and South East Asia. He is an advocate of a culture of peace and non-violence. Asghar Ali Engineer was born 10 March 1939 in Salumbar, Rajasthan, India as the son of a Bohra priest. He was given training in Qur’anic tafsir (commentary), tawil (hidden meaning of Qur’an), fiqh (jurisprudence) and hadith (Prophet’s sayings), and learnt the Arabic language. He graduated in civil engineering in Indore, Madhya Pradesh), and served for 20 years as an engineer in the Bombay Municipal Corporation before he took voluntary retirement to devote himself to the Bohra reform movement. He began to play a leading role in the reform movement in 1972 when a revolt took place in Udaipur. He was unanimously elected as General Secretary of The Central Board of Dawoodi Bohra Community in its first conference in Udaipur in 1977. In 2004 due to criticism of the Dawoodi Bohra religious establishment he was expelled. Asghar Ali Engineer has been instrumental in publicizing the Progressive Dawoodi Bohra movement through his writings and speeches. He has authored more than 40 books and many articles in various national and international journals, and is founding chairman of the Asian Muslim Action Network, director of the Institute of Islamic Studies, and head of the Center for Study of Society and Secularism in Mumbai. He has been awarded several awards, among which the Communal Harmony Award in 1997 and the Right Livelihood Award in 2004 (with Swami Agnivesh) for his ’strong commitment to promote values of co-existence and tolerance’ … (full text).

He receives the Right Livelihood Award, Joint with Swami Agnivesh (2004).

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Asghar Ali Engineer – India

He says: … Yes, that is very true, that secularism is a must for us. It is so multi-religious, it is so multicultural, multilingual, and so diverse. Even within Hindu society there is so much diversity, within Muslim society there is so much diversity in India. How can it function smoothly without secularism? … and: Secularism in Indian context means equal respect for all religion, equal protection for all religion by State, and the State not associating with any one religion, but keeping equal distance from all religions. That is secularism … (full interview text).

Combat Terror Day’ on February 5, 2009: … The other dignitaries who will preside over this youth initiative against terrorism include secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace, Teesta Setalvad; actress-cum-director Nandita Das; NDTV- Kashmir correspondent Zaffar Iqbal; journalist and editor of ‘Gujarat Carnage’, Asghar Ali Engineer; Centre for Health and Allied Services activist, Abhay Shukla along with director general of RSS-run NGO Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini Vinay Sahasrabuddhe … (full text, 27 Jan 2009).

Find his bio on cmss.uwa.edu.au; his archive on countercurrents; his publications on andromeda.rutgers.edu; on amazon; on wikipedia /some works; on blogs on word-press; on Gojaba; on Google Images-results; on inauthor Google-search; on Google Book-search; on Google Scholar-search; on Google Group-search; on Google Blog-search.

He writes:

• Every year we monitor communal riots in India. Here is the account of riots, which took place in 2007, which we could monitor through various sources … (full long text, 01/16/2008).
• Modernity was greatly celebrated during colonial days of 19th century throughout the world, especially in African and Asian countries colonized by European countries. It was hallmark of superiority of west over east. West was considered most modern, rational in its approach and technologically far more superior whereas Asian and African countries superstitious, irrational and ignorant and backward. Most of the intellectuals, mainly product of western colonial education felt ashamed of their ignorance and backwardness and lack of rationality and science and tried to reform their societies by spreading modern approach among their people. However, there was vertical division in these societies between those who refused to modernize and preferred their orthodoxy and those who considered modernization a must and celebrated modernity … // … Spiritual joy and material happiness must go together. Reason should not be devoid of values. Reason without higher goals, meaning and significance of life, is two-edged sword. Truth should not be mere conformity with facts but also beyond and above it, transcendent and all inclusive. Otherwise modernity will remain handmaiden of powerful vested interests which is what it is today and will generate more and more discontents. (full long text, January 2009).
• After the carnage in Gujarat and subsequent victory of Narendra Modi-led BJP in Gujarat has intensified threat of Hindutva forces. The Hindutva forces not only celebrated the victory in Gujarat but also declared their intention to repeat the Gujarat model in other states in coming elections. It is not so surprising after all that even the Prime Minister Vajpayee when asked about it, confirmed it. When reporters asked him would you repeat Gujarat model in other states he said, ìWill Godhra be repeatedî? The implication of this cryptic reply is that if Godhra is repeated (or created?) in other states Gujarat model will be justified and the BJP Government will neither owe responsibility to prevent Godhra-like occurrence nor the subsequent events that followed in Gujarat. Thus the BJP owes no responsibility to enforce rule of law but rule of hate, blind revenge and violence … (full text, Feb. 1-15, 2003).

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Natacha Atlas (Arabic: نتاشا أطلس‎; born March 20, 1964) is a Belgian singer known for her fusion of Arabic and North African music with Western electronic music. She once termed her music cha’abi moderne (an updated form of Egyptian pop music). Her music has been influenced by many styles including Arabesque music, drum ‘n’ bass and reggae … /// … Personal Life: In 1999, Atlas married Syrian kanun player Abdullah Chhadeh. The couple divorced in 2005. Atlas considers herself to be a Muslim with an interest in Sufism.  She is, however, open to other forms of spirituality because “it’s important to be tolerant”. In 2001, she was appointed by Mary Robinson as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Conference Against Racism. Robinson chose Atlas because “she embodies the message that there is a strength in diversity. That our differences – be they ethnic, racial or religious – are a source of riches to be embraced rather than feared” … (full text).

Her Solo career.

As befits her globetrotting lifestyle and influences, Middle Eastern singer NATACHA ATLAS continues to create a body of work that refuses to be neatly categorized. Over the past decade, she has entrancingly fused North African and Arabic music with western electronic beats to produce a unique dance music hybrid. This sound has constantly been fed by fresh musical passions and testing in new sonic settings. With her latest album MISH MAOUL, her career comes full circle to touch base with her roots. The new album harks back in its sound and traditions to the music she grew up hearing in the Moroccan suburb of Brussels, particularly when the Golden Sound Studio Orchestra of Cairo makes its entrance. It also reunites her again with the Temple of Sound’s Nick Page aka Count Dubulah, with whom she first worked in Transglobal Underground and who helped produce her very first solo album Diaspora (and many subsequent collaborations) … (full text Biography).

Her Homepage on Beggars Group.

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Natacha Atlas – Belgium and UK

Watch these videos:

• Natacha Atlas – Mon Amie La Rose, 04.44 min, May 9, 2006;
• Natacha Atlas – Mistaneek, 3.21 min, June 20, 2006;
• Natacha Atlas – Bellydance (live Copenhagen, Vega 26.08.2006), 3.00 min, October 07, 2006;
• Natacha Atlas – When I Close My Eyes, 4.30 min, June 26, 2006;
• Natacha Atlas – Iskanderia (Live), 5.05 min, October 10, 2006;
• Natacha Atlas – I Put A Spell On You, 3.47 min, June 01, 2007;
• Natacha Atlas – Leysh Natarak, 04.26 min, Mar 25, 2006;
• Natacha Atlas – Amulet, 3.55 min;
• Natacha Atlas – Yalla Chant, 04.22 min, May 25, 2008;
• natacha atlas – gafsa, 06.36, Dec 2, 2006.

… “The Arabic form doesn’t need any alteration, Atlas said in an interview “World Music Central”. “You don’t need to f*** about with the Arabic scales, they’re beautiful as they are,” she said a few years ago. “If you just mix them together with modern European sounds and dub sounds, you’ve got a great blend.” Atlas says her 2008 outing and tour “shows the Western public that, actually, Arabic composers have been fusing music, East and West, a lot longer than I have” … (full text).

Natacha Atlas – Gone:

• He went on a journey and left
• He crossed the seas
• And nobody knows where he might be
• And he’s gone … (full text).

… With a heritage that connects Egypt, Palestine, Morocco, Belgium and the UK, the unique singer Natacha Atlas represents a one-woman Migration. Indeed, she has described herself as “a human Gaza strip”. An international star for two decades, she is famed for her collaborations with Transglobal Underground, Nitin Sawhney, David Arnold and Jah Wobble. Tonight Natacha goes acoustic to present the music from her acclaimed album ‘Ana Hina’, a sensuous evocation of the Egyptian and Lebanese singers she first heard through her father’s record collection, and in which her incredible voice takes centre stage … (full text, January 5, 2009).

… Another London-based world music talent, Natacha Atlas, is doing a short tour in support of her sublime recent album Ana Hina, on which she moves away from her more club-based music to a fairly restrained take on traditional Arabic music. Joining her will be the Mazeeka Ensemble, who also played on the album. They’ll be at the Salisbury Arts Centre (01722 321744) on 28 January, St George’s, Bristol (0845 402 4001) on 30 January, the Union Chapel, London (08700 600100) on 1 February, and the Norwich Arts Centre (01603 660352) on 2 February … (full text, 4 January 2009).

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Linked with Israeli theater group encourages Arab and Jewish youngsters to take off their masks, with the Beresheet La’Shalom Foundation BLF.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Angelica Edna Calo Livne is an educator and advocate of peace through arts, among children from different religious and cultural backgrounds. In 2002, Angelica created the Rainbow Theater, in the Upper Galilee of Israel, involving young Jews and Arabs, Christians, Muslims and Druses, who with mime and dance narrate what goes on in the mind of an adolescent living in a country at war. Using their bodies, the actors express their inner thoughts and burning desires to accept people and be accepted as they are. One of Angelica’s projects is to help children physically hurt by terrorist attacks. Angelica Edna Calo Livne, born to a Jewish family in Rome in 1955, has been living in an Israeli Kibbutz, on the border with Lebanon, since she was 20. Married and the mother of four sons, she has been for many years a teacher in multi-cultural schools, and in schools for difficult boys. She obtained her PhD from Tor Vergata University of Rome, Arts in Education to Reach Peace. She also completed a MED in “Integration of the Arts in Education” from Lesley University Boston, Graduate School of Arts. She has obtained several diplomas from different international universities, such as the Tel Hai College, Diploma of “Leadership in Education”; the Tel Hai College, Diploma of “Negotiation and Mediation”; the Seminar Oranim College, Diploma of Director for Educative Theatre; the Seminar Hakibbutzim College, Diploma of Theatre, Acting and Direction; the University “La Sapienza” Studies of Sociology; and High Rabbinical School of Rome Studies of Hebrew Culture and Philosophy … (1000peacewomen 1/2).

She says: … “The most important message that we can give now to all the humanity is that difference is the richness, that dialog is so important now for everybody, not (only) for us in Israel. This is now the imperative, I think” … The Arcobaleno-Rainbow Theatre Group uses the universal language of music and dance to convey their massage. Their play “Beresheet” is a call for peace, tolerance and mutual respect. Edna Angelica Calò Livné is the group’s inspirational founder and artistic director. She believes people can use art and theatre to positively influence the society in which they live … (full text).

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Angelica Edna Calo` Livne – Israel and Italy

Watch the videos:

• The Peace Behind the Masks, 2.12 min, Nov 6, 2008.
• Al teatro Rendano premio Cavour (in italiano), 7.06 min, October 15, 2008;
• IL TEATRO COME STRUMENTO DI MEMORIA E DI CONVIVENZA (in italiano), 03.01 min, Jan 25, 2008.

Read also:

• She works for the Beresheet LaShalom Foundation BLF;
• and for the Rainbow Theater /Masks Off in the Upper Galilee RTiUG;
• Angelica Edna Calo, A noi importa vincere la pace;
• Assisi Peace Prize Awarded to 2 Who Promote Peace Through Education, One Is Israeli, the Other Palestinian, 2004-07-06;
• She teaches peace to mortal enemies, January 4, 2008;
• RECENSIONE DEL LIBRO UN SI’, UN INIZIO, UNA SPERANZA, DI ANGELICA CALO’ LIVNE’, ED. ITACA;
• and find her on Google Video-search; and on Google Blog-search (pratically all in italiano).

Angelica Edna Calo` Livne is the coordinator of all educational activities of the Foundation. Born in Rome, Italy, she was one of the leaders of the youth Zionist Movement Hashomer Hatzair and she studied in the Rabbinical College of Rome. She has a B.A. degree in Social Theatre, M. Ed. in Integrating the Arts in Education and a PhD in Italian Literature. She has received several awards for her activities for peace and was candidate to Saharov Prize by the Euro Parliament and Nobel Prize for Peace 2005. She has written two books in Italian and lectures all over the world about her rich experience of education to peace. (on Beresheet La’Shalom Foundation).

… mi chiamo Angelica Edna Calo Livne, sono nata Roma e vivo da molti anni in Israele in un Kibbuz al confine con il Libano. Ho quattro figli e accanto al mio compagno, Yehuda, nato nel Kibbuz, dedichiamo la nostra vita all’educazione al dialogo, alla pace, alla coesistenza e al rispetto per l’altro. Nel 2004 abbiamo creato la Fondazione “Beresheet LaShalom”  Per educare alla pace attraverso le arti. Fondazione Beresheet LaShalom e’ stata fondata nel 2004. e questi sono i suoi obbiettivi: … (full text).

Yehuda and Edna live in Kibbutz Sasa on the Lebanese border and they have four boys: Yehuda Calo` Livne is the administrator and the executive manager of Beresheet Lashalom. He was born in Kibbutz Sasa. He teaches Communication and Technology and he has 25 years of experience in formal and non-formal education. He specialized in educational work with special needs students. As educational director for three years of the youth movement Hashomer Hatzair in Israel, he led several pedagogical and political projects for peace. Yehuda and Edna founded the Beresheet La’Shalom Foundation BLF (see there the Founders).

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Linked with The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan MKSS, India, with the National Campaign For People’s Right To Information NCPRI, India, and with The idea of India.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Through struggles for the right to minimum wages and employment, Aruna Roy (born 1946) united the people of central Rajasthan under the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS). In 1994, the MKSS began the Right to Information movement. What started as a local intervention against corruption now stands as a national movement that has won freedom of information laws in ten states and at the center. The way in which Aruna bridged the interests of the middle class and the impoverished is remarkable. She says: “While the right to information in India is logical, it is conspicuous in its absence in the quotidian workings of the establishment. The sufferers are the impoverished” … (1000peacewomen 1/2).

Aruna Roy is an Indian political and social activist. She served as a civil servant in the Indian Administrative Service from 1968-1975. She is best-known for her campaigns to better the lives of the rural poor in Rajasthan … (full text on wikipedia).  And: Career; Personal Life.

This year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership and International Understanding has been bestowed on J Arputham, President, National Slumdwellers’ Federation and Aruna Roy, Sept. 2000 … (full text).

She is also a Better World Heroe.

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Aruna Roy – India

Watch these videos:

• Aruna Roy – The Initial Findings of the Jury, 10 min, Jan 22, 2008;
• Aruna Roy speaks on NREGA – National consutation 2008, 2 min, May 8, 2008.

She works for Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan MKSS.

RTI: Aruna Roy for another campaign, to implement the act, 11/3/2008.

RTI Act yet to make impact in villages, say policymakers, Nov. 6, 2008.

She says also: … “Many collectives of the poor people struggling for change gave us the ideas and the commitment to bring about meaningful change. In fact, this has been one of the outstanding lessons of my 25 years of work in rural Rajasthan. I owe my ideas to the clarity of others; my courage to being with people who confront injustice with fearlessness and equanimity; my hope to the persistence and resilience of men and women struggling to get themselves heard; my generosity to the poor family that shared its last roti (bread) with me and my sense of well being to the many who have supported me in difficult moments of my life” … (full interview text).

Desert Storm: Saathin Solidarity, September 11, 2004.

Find her and her publications on Google Book-search; on Google Group-search; on Google Blog-search.

Another Interview With Aruna Roy: Janadesh 2007, by Santosh H K Narayan.

And she says: … “The pity is that there is no accountability in the present system of governance. All human rights depend on the basic right to know, to demand accountability. In India, the feudal social fabric has exploited the formal democratic system to its advantage because the literate are too busy building careers and empires to bother about social inadequacies. That’s why RTI has a widespread appeal for everyone. Every citizen of the state has a fundamental right to say: “You are spending my money. Render me the accounts.” But most people are unaware of this power and suffer as a result their inaction and ignorance” … (full interview text).

Aruna Roy is a recipient of Magsaysay award – valued as the Asian Nobel prize – for community leadership and international understanding. Aruna Roy was an IAS officer until 1974. She resigned from the IAS to join the Social Work and Research Center in Tilonia, Rajasthan, which had been set up by her husband Sanjit Roy. She worked at the SWRC until 1983, then moved to Devdoondri in 1990 and set up the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathana, a group which is a working example of a transparent organization. She is a strong supporter of the movement for Right to Information, which succeeded in getting the Rajasthan Right to Information Bill passed … (full text).

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Linked with Baitul Salaam Network.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Hadayai Majeed’s vision is both simple and huge: Give Muslim women the tools to change their climate by changing themselves. A member of a religion that is focused on service, Hadayai was called to reach out to her sisters in 1997, when she founded Baitul Salaam Network, Inc. to help victims of domestic abuse. The goal of the network, headquartered in Georgia, U.S., is to end silence about domestic violence and to help abused Muslim women and children with shelter, food, and clothing. They are taught strategies for self-sufficiency – how to be confident in speech, mannerisms, and body language … (1000peacewomen 1/2).

She says: “Just after we opened, a child of one of our residents danced in the middle of the floor, dived head-first into the toy box and squealed with joy. I knew then we were doing the right thing”.

Her public profile on plaxo.com.

Barack Obama: Hadayai Majeed’s Blog.

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Hadayai Majeed – USA

She works for the Baitul Salaam Network, Inc.

Find her and her publications on BookFinder.com; on Google Group-search; on Google Book-search; on Google Blog-search.

(1000peacewomen 2/2): … Hadayai’s marriage was one of neglect and denigration. But when she sought intervention, counsel, encouragement and financial assistance from Muslim family and friends, she was told she was at fault. The policy of the community’s one shelter was to tell abused women to be quiet and to “move on.” Instead, Hadayai saw a need and she moved to fill it.

Although her mother was a social worker, Hadayai had avoided following in her footsteps, observing its personal demands. But in 1997, she responded to the call of her faith and founded Baitul Salaam Network. The vision of the network is to provide a community in which women are self-empowered through their spiritual beliefs and in which community the liberties and rights of every person are respected.

Hadayai remembers when she first knew she had done the right thing in creating Baitul Salaam: “Just after we opened the shelter in 1999, a child of one of our first residents danced in the middle of the floor, dived head first into the toy box, and squealed with joy.”

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She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

For over 30 years, Vasanth Kannabiran (born 1939) has been closely involved with questions of armed militancy, civil liberties, and the meaning of peace for women in her native state of Andhra Pradesh. She is among the first women in the country to move into feminist activism through the Stree Shakti Sangathana. Ten years ago, she set up a radical women’s collective in Andhra Pradesh called Asmita, which brings diverse groups of women into networks addressing issues spanning conflict, peace, survival, women’s rights, and secularism … For over 30 years, Vasanth Kannabiran has been closely involved with issues of militancy, civil liberties, and the meaning of peace for women in her native Andhra Pradesh state. (1000peacewomen 1/2).

She writes: … The omnipresent phenomenon of globalization has made its impact on women writing as well; with there being some sort of an inverse relationship between the 2: the opening up of the markets has resulted in the closing of individual and cultural spaces. One may argue that women are no more in the ‘clumsy clutches of patriarchy’ and have the freedom to think and do as they please; however in the present times, they will encounter another Hand, ‘not ugly this time, but carefully manicured, that will seat them on cushioned thighs’. Comfortable? It will let them speak out from there; it doesn’t mind that. Lulled by this false sense of security, they might even forget the ever-present grip, but the moment they want to step down, the Hand will ensure they are put back in place … (full text).

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Vasanth Kannabiran – India

She works for the National Alliance for Women NAWO.

Women and words: forging new bonds, with Vasanth Kannabiran, Ritu Menon, Meenakshi Mukherjee and Kalpana Kannabiran.

Comrade Vasanth’s Vision.

The book: Web of Deceit: Devadasi Reform in Colonial India, Kalpana Kannabiran and Vasanth Kannabiran. Reprint. New Delhi, Kali for Women, 2003, x, 217 p., $17. ISBN 81-86706-63-1

Bharati Ray: Women of India … chapter 6: … Citizenship and its Discontents, A Political History of Women in Andhra, by Vasanth Kannabiran and Kalpana Kannabiran … (full text).

… And lastly – the ballet was written by Vasanth Kannabiran – a poet, writer and translator.  Also one of the thousand women world wide nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 … (full text).

India’s intellectual voices condemn Neelan’s assassination … The statement was signed by … Vasanth Kannabiran … (full text).

Find her and her publications on UNjobs.org; on Google Group-search; on Google Book-search; on Google Scholar-search; on Google Blog-search.

Vasanth Kannabiran, city-based human rights activist, Mogulamma, a physically challenged woman working for the welfare of the disabled in Kosigi mandal of Mahbubnagar district, and Murari Pramila, a nurse and health worker of Guntur, are among 1,000 women, whose names have been submitted to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee – 2005 … (full text).

(1000peacewomen 2/2) … As a child, Vasanth Kannabiran (born 1939) was taught to question and assert herself, and it is a habit that has stayed with her. Born into a family of first-generation Communist leaders in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Vasanth was an indifferent student but a voracious reader. She secured an M Litt in English Literature from the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad, the state capital, and went on to teach English at a woman’s college from 1961 to 1985.

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Linked with Mahila Samakhya, Uttar Pradesh .

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Sumitra (born 1949) comes from a scheduled caste family and has received no formal education. But she is at the center of a social upheaval in her village. In 1996, braving disapproval and hostility, she set up the self-help Milori Women’s Group. The group runs women’s courts in the village, making dispute resolution quick, inexpensive, and mutually consensual. The fallout of the popularity of the women’s courts has been a drastic reduction in violence against women, and the consolidation of women’s power … It is said about her: Sumitra is reputed to have a way of getting right to the heart of the matter of any dispute, which she then judges without considerations of caste, class, gender, or community coming in the way.

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Sumitra – India

She works for the Milori Women’s Group (MLG), and for Mahila Samakhya, Uttar Pradesh.

Sumitra was born in 1949 into an indigent family of laborers. After her father died, her mother slaved to feed Sumitra and her four siblings. No one, least of all Sumitra herself, would have imagined then that she would one day lead a women’s group in a block consisting of 60 villages.

When she was 16, Sumitra married into a family of equally poor laborers. Poverty and its attendant problems remained Sumitra’s constant companions. The turning point in her life was her association with the Mahila Samakhya in 1991. Initially, Sumitra worked as a Sakhi for five years. In 1996, she formed the Milori Women’s Group.

One of the most important of this group’s activities is the women’s courts that deal with problems within families, violence against women, and disputes relating to land and family affairs. Sumitra’s method of functioning is to listen to both parties and solve the problems through mutual agreement. If either party fails to honor the court’s decision, the group calls in the cops – a surefire kick in the pants.

Today, the 60 villages resolve virtually all their disputes through the women’s courts. The lower cost and quick resolution – and the fact that decisions are arrived at through mutual consent, not legal brawling – have helped making these courts universally acceptable.

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Linked with Opium of the masses – part 2.

Eric Walberg is a journalist and writes for Al-Ahram Weekly. He tells on his own website: If you want to see me in action, you can watch a panel discussion about the Annapolis meeting between Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli PM Ehud Olmert: TV Debate, Middle East: Part 1, 5.25 min; part 2, 7.17 min. … (see also all his other videos on Youtube).

He writes: … While Georgians see themselves as part of Europe, “the whole history of Georgia is of Georgian kings writing to Western kings for help, or for understanding. And sometimes not even getting a response,” said its thoroughly Westernised president, Mikheil Saakashvili, in a recent interview. “Not just being an isolated, faraway country, but part of something bigger”. With a population of 4.7 million, this beautiful land, noted for its dozen or so hot-blooded independent-minded peoples, is surrounded by at best indifferent neighbours Armenia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and of course Russia. Its fiery 40-year-old president does not disappoint, with his penchant for thumbing his nose at Russia and lavishly admiring US President George W Bush … (full text, May 7th, 2008).

His personal Website.

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Eric Walberg – Canada

Heart of darkness: Afghan Resistance against Foreign Occupation, June 4, 2008.

… For sceptics about the possibility of some form of LHOP/MHOP, just consider the following: if indeed 6,000 elite business leaders control the world’s fate, surely such an immensely wealthy and powerful coterie could solve the food crisis in a flash. The massive expenditures on arms and the wanton destruction they cause every second, could, if stopped, provide the will and resources to restructure the world to end starvation, let alone poverty, leaving lots left over for the elite to wallow in. There is no organised force of any consequence opposing this world elite. What’s stopping it? (full long text about food crisis).
[Explanation: "Made it Happen On Purpose" (MHOP) ... and: "Let it Happen On Purpose" (LHOP) ...]

Silent tsunami, May 17th, 2008.

Twenty years ago this week the Soviet Union began its withdrawal from Afghanistan, eight and a half years after it was invited by the desperate People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), which had degenerated into intra-party squabbling and was beset by Islamic rebels massively financed by the United States. The straw that broke the Soviets’ back was when the US began providing Stinger missiles to Osama bin Laden and his friends … (full text).

He asks: “Is there more than meets the eye in the sudden flurry of talk about a world food crisis” … (full long text).

… Eric wrote to me, and I fully agree with his view: “My philosophy of journalism is that it should help shape the historical dialectic. Indeed, I hope that our arguments reach Russian political types and help support the Good in Russian politics – renewing the anti-imperial stance of Soviet Russia. It’s not at all a sure thing, with the strong Zionist lobby in Russia which continues to press and fight Putin. His is not yet primarily a principled position, but the principles have becoming stronger the past few years, as he wrestles with both the domestic and international dragons” … (full text, July 8, 2007).

His personal Library.

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inked with National School of Drama – New Delhi.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Tripurari Sharma (born on 31 July 1956 in Kurukshetra, Haryana) initially chose theater as a means of expression to shrug off middle-class conventions and to seek an identity. It did not take her long to realize that it was more than that: it was an intimate way of revealing and connecting with the lives of women audiences and sharing their perspective with the world. Evolving a play through collective interaction has helped bring theater out of closed spaces, and into the lives of Indian women … (1000peacewomen 1/2).

She says: “Theater has an ancient but male-centric history in India. Tripurari saw it as an intimate way of revealing and connecting the lives of women audiences and sharing their perspective with the world”.

She is an Associate Professor Acting: A graduate in English from Delhi University and Diploma in Direction from National School of Drama. Directed many plays and has been associated with many theatre groups in India and abroad. A playwright of repute and has translated many Indian and Western plays. Has written scripts for films.Was the Indian representative at the first International Women Playwrights’ Conference’ held in USA in 1986. Received the Sanskriti Puraskar award in 1986, and was honoured by Delhi Natya Sangh in 1990. (National School of Drama).

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Tripurari Sharma – India.

She works for Alarippu, and for the National School of Drama.

She graduated in English literature from Delhi University in 1976 and from the National School of Drama in 1979, specializing in direction. Those were the years after the draconian Emergency years, when then prime minister Indira Gandhi had repressed all freedoms and expression in 1975. Tripurari was secretary of the Miranda House College students union at a time when there was acceleration towards social change.

Tripurari comes from a middleclass family, and she chose theatre to free herself from conventions and seek identification. The women’s movement in India was gaining ground: Tripurari saw theatre as a means to share and talk about the lives of women, and she threw herself wholeheartedly into the women’s movement.

She was also involved with trade unions and college students, preparing plays and generating awareness on issues like dowry. Street theatre emerged as a strong sociopolitical medium, an exclusive forum where women audiences could relate to various issues. It was an intimate way of revealing and connecting the lives of women audiences, and sharing their perspective with the world. A play on teasing girls and women, performed by women alone in colleges, served as a device to bring to the fore and evolve a women’s perspective. And this was just one of them.

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Linked with The housing organization Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America NACA, with International Accountability Project IAP, and with Fairness.com.

Wall Street made billions off the backs of homeowners. But when the mortgage crisis blew up, a pit bull named Bruce Marks stood up for the Average Joes and, incredibly, got some of the biggest banks to bend … And sadly, a whole lot of desperate people had to turn to Marks for help this year, and a whole lot more will need his emergency services in the year ahead … The CEO of the nonprofit Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, or NACA, Marks works out of a stripped-down office above an electrical-supply store in Jamaica Plain. Yet over the years he has become one of the most feared men in the corporate boardrooms of the nation’s leading financial institutions … (full text, December 30, 2007).

He says: “NACA has received requests for help from some 3,000 Homeowners nationwide whose loans are serviced by Citi” … and: “We have refused to accept anything less than a permanent interest-rate reduction for the homeowner” … (full text, March 25, 2008).

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Bruce Marks – USA

Listen the video: NACA’s CEO Bruce Marks in Global Player, Part 1/4, 14 min, Sep 17, 2007.

BAILOUT BULLIES, ENTITLEMENT CULTURE GONE MAD, April 2, 2008.

His statement: My name is Bruce Marks. I am Chief Executive Officer of the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), a non-profit housing services and advocacy organization. NACA is known for its “Best in America” mortgage program which offers low and moderate income Americans home mortgages with low interest rates, no down payment, and no closing costs. Perfect credit is not required. Through the NACA program thousands of Americans have realized the dream of home ownership. NACA provides prime loans for “sub-prime borrowers”. NACA has 21 offices across the country with $3.8 Billion committed to the best mortgage in America. The current interest rate for NACA mortgages is 7.5% fixed for 30 years with no down payment, no closing costs, and no fees. In addition, NACA provides comprehensive housing services at no cost to the borrower. It may sound too good to be true but it is the reality for thousands of working people. People can call NACA at 1-888-302-NACA to participate in this incredible program. NACA is also known for its advocacy campaigns against predatory lenders. As the committee is no doubt aware, there are predatory lending companies out there who use misleading sales tactics to take advantage of those who, through little or no fault of their own, have been excluded from mainstream credit institutions. NACA has worked in the street, in boardrooms, in statehouses, and in this building to fight these exploitive lending practices with a great deal of success. However, despite our efforts, these practices continue … (full long text, June 21, 2000).

BOSTON GLOBE NAMES BRUCE MARKS, NACA CEO, BOSTONIAN OF THE YEAR (2007).

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(People sorted by their first name, belonging to my westerner standards and knowledge).

• 2007-03-06: Abbot-Pra Acharn Phusit (Chan) Khantitharo – Thailand;
• 2008-02-11: Abdelwahab Meddeb – Tunis and France;
• 2008-05-10: Abdourahman Ali Waberi – Djibouti;
• 2008-03-05: Abdullah Jafar Ibn Mohammad Rudaki – Tajikistan (Persia 859-941);
• 2006-05-06: Abdullahi Ahmed an-Na’im – Sudan;
• 2008-12-16: Abigail Smith Adams – USA (1744 – 1818);
• 2006-06-22: Achta Djibrine Sy – Chad;
• 2008-11-16: Adam Curtis – England;
• 2007-11-27: Adam Engel – USA;
• 2006-08-25: Adelle Potgieter – South Africa;
• 2006-08-05: Adiba Kamiljonovna Akhmedjanova – Uzbekistan;
• 2006-09-17: Adolfo Perez Esquivel – Brazil;
• 2009-02-01: Adrienne van Melle-Hermans – Netherlands (1931 – 2007);
• 2005-12-18: Ahmed Mohamed Kathy Kathrada – South Africa;
• 2005-12-08: Ahmed Rashid – Pakistan;
• 2007-11-02: Aida Ahmed Abdalla – Sudan;
• 2006-05-01: Aida Chouk – France;
• 2006-09-28: Aida Touma-Suliman – Israel;
• 2008-06-21: Aijaz Ahmad – India;
• 2008-10-12: Aileen Clarke Hernandez – USA;
• 2009-01-28: Aisha Abu Bakr Subaira Adam – Sudan;
• 2005-12-29: Aishat Magomedova – Russia /Dagestan;
• 2006-07-06: Aissata Kane – Mauritania;
• 2005-11-10: Akbar Ganji – Iran;
• 2008-06-04: Ala Nemerenco – Moldavia;
• 2007-09-20: Albertina Duarte Takiuti – Brazil;
• 2008-12-07: Albertina García Argueta- Honduras, Native Lencas;
• 2008-07-16: Alberto J. Mora – USA;
• 2005-11-12: Albie Sachs – South Africa;
• 2007-08-17: Aleta Ba’un – Indonesia;
• 2007-06-04: Alex Callinicos – England;
• 2008-07-15: Alex de Waal – England;
• 2007-11-25: Alexandra (Alex) Gater – Australia;
• 2006-01-12: Alfred Sirleaf – Liberia;
• 2006-01-16: Alfred W. McCoy – USA;
• 2008-09-22: Ali Ahmad Jalali – Afghanistan and USA;
• 2005-11-07: Alice Karekezi – Rwanda;
• 2008-09-06: Alice Ophelia Hyman Lynch – USA;
• 2009-01-30: Alice Schwarzer – Germany;
• 2007-07-01: Alicia Amalia Rodriguez Illescas – Guatemala;
• 2007-08-13: Alina Radu – Moldavia;
• 2009-02-18: Alison Des Forges – USA (1942 – 2009);
• 2007-12-21: Alkaben Jani – India;
• 2006-02-20: Alla Yaroshinskaya – Russia;
• 2005-12-23: Alvaro Vargas Llosa – Peru;
• 2007-08-05: Alzira Rufino – Brazil;
• 2006-10-11: Amin Maalouf – Lebanon and France;
• 2007-11-16: Amina Afzali Safi – Afghanistan;
• 2006-01-24: Aminata Dramane Traore – Mali;
• 2007-12-13: Amma Sakinah – Afghanistan;
• 2007-11-02: Amna Abd El Rahman Abd El Rasoul – Sudan;
• 2006-07-10: Amsatou Sow Sidibe – Senegal;
• 2008-05-15: Amy Goodman – USA;
• 2008-12-26: Amy Johnson – England (1903 – 1941);
• 2007-05-10: Ana Lucina Garcia Maldonado – Venezuela;
• 2007-11-28: Ana Maria Machado – Brazil;
• 2008-01-10: Ana Maria Romero de Campero – Bolivia;
• 2008-02-07: Ana Montenegro – Brazil (1915 – 2006);
• 2006-05-09: Ana Raffai – Croatia;
• 2006-06-09: Ana Teresa Bernal – Colombia;
• 2006-10-17: Anabell Guerrero – Venezuela and France;
• 2006-05-04: Anat Biletzki – Israel;
• 2008-10-30: Andrea Smith – USA;
• 2008-10-08: Andrew Clapham – England;
• 2007-03-02: Angela Gomes – Bangladesh;
• 2009-01-11: Angelica Edna Calo` Livne – Israel and Italy;
• 2008-01-26: Angie Zelter – England;
• 2006-07-04: Anica Mikus Kos – Slovenia;
• 2007-11-02: Anita Batris Amiro – Sudan;
• 2005-11-29: Anita Chaaban – Switzerland;
• 2007-12-26: Anjali Gopalan – India;
• 2008-03-18: Ann Njogu – Kenya;
• 2006-11-07: Ann Pettifor – England;
• 2008-09-05: Ann Wright, (Mary) Col. (Retd.) – USA;
• 2007-11-01: Anna Bu – Serbia;
• 2009-03-19: Anna Hoare Sr. – England;
• 2006-10-09: Anna Politkovskaya – Russia (1958 – 2006);
• 2007-02-06: Annapurna Moharana – India;
• 2008-09-26: Anne Firth Murray – USA and New Zealand;
• 2006-04-09: Annelise Ebbe – Denmark;
• 2006-08-03: Annie Lacroix-Riz – France;
• 2006-07-17: Anonyma – International;
• 2008-09-28: Anthony Barnes “Tony” Atkinson (Sir) – England;
• 2008-03-30: Anthony Ravlich – New Zealand;
• 2006-07-20: Antonio Jacanamijoy – Colombia;
• 2008-10-01: Antonio “Toni” Negri – Italy;
• 2005-12-02: Armand Mattelart – Belgium;
• 2006-10-14: Arnold Tsunga – Zimbabwe;
• 2006-03-22: Art Spiegelman – USA and Sweden;
• 2009-03-24: Arun Manilal Gandhi – South Africa and USA;
• 2008-11-13: Aruna Roy – India;
• 2006-08-16: Arvind Kejriwal – India;
• 2006-08-02: Arvol Looking Horse, Chief – Sioux Nation, USA;
• 2009-02-06: Asghar Ali Engineer – India;
• 2007-06-06: Asha Lata Baidya alias Ashalata Boidda – Bangladesh;
• 2007-10-25: Ashanti Alston Omowali – USA;
• 2007-07-06: Asha-Rose Migiro – Tanzania;
• 2007-04-15: Asipa Musayeva – Kyrgyzstan;
• 2005-12-11: Asma Jahangir – Pakistan;
• 2008-10-04: Audre Lorde – USA (1934-1992);
• 2007-10-08: Aung Myo Min – Burma and Thailand;
• 2006-02-05: Ayaan Hirsi Ali – Somalia and Netherlands;
• 2006-06-01: Ayman Abd El-Aziz Nour – Egypt;
• 2006-07-28: Ayorinde, or Ayo Ajayi – Ghana;
• 2008-01-30: Ayse Duzkan – Turkey;
• 2006-03-30: Aziza Abdirasulova – Kyrgyzstan;
• 2007-01-03: Azra Hasanbegovic – Bosnia and Herzegovina;
• 2008-02-14: Azza Mint Moma – Mauritania;
• 2008-02-28: Baba Amte – India (1914 – 2008);
• 2005-11-27: Bader Zaman – Pakistan;
• 2006-05-28: Bahey El-Din Hassan – Egypt;
• 2007-07-17: Bahia Hariri alias Bahiyya Hariri – Lebanon;
• 2008-01-21: Bahman Nirumand – Iran and Germany;
• 2007-11-02: Bakhita Mohmed Osman – Sudan;
• 2008-12-27: Bapsi Sidhwa – Pakistan (-India-USA);
• 2006-08-24: Barbara Deming – USA (1917 – 1984);
• 2008-11-07: Barbara Ehrenreich – USA;
• 2005-12-17: Barbara Gladysch – Germany;
• 2008-10-14: Barbara Lee – USA;
• 2008-11-02: Barbara Smith – USA;
• 2007-04-16: Barbro Sundback – Finland;
• 2006-09-06: Bassam Tibi – Syria;
• 2007-06-22: Beatrice Felicite Bobo – Central African Republic;
• 2006-03-21: Beatrice Weder di Mauro – Switzerland and Italian;
• 2006-10-30: Beatriz Benzano Sere – Uruguay;
• 2007-03-17: Beatriz Elena Rodriguez Rengifo – Colombia;
• 2008-09-21: Beena Sarwar – Pakistan;
• 2008-03-10: Beena Sebastian – India;
• 2008-02-12: Beggzadi Mahmuda Nasir – Bangladesh;
• 2008-11-25: Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi – USA;
• 2008-04-08: Benazir Hotaki – Afghanistan;
• 2008-03-03: Benedita da Silva – Brazil;
• 2008-09-03: Berenice Abbott – USA (1898 – 1991);
• 2007-03-28: Berhan Gebre Egziabher Tewolde – Ethiopia;
• 2005-09-02: Berhane Tewolde Medhin – Eritrea and Switzerland;
• 2008-05-23: Bernd Senf – Germany;
• 2008-03-31: Bertha Oliva Guiffarro de Nativi­ – Honduras;
• 2007-05-31: Bettina Renz – England;
• 2008-09-01: Betty Burkes – USA;
• 2006-11-18: Betty Reardon – USA;
• 2006-12-29: Bhagat Singh – India (1907 – 1931);
• 2007-05-14: Bhikkhuni Dhammananda, Sr.  – Thailand;
• 2007-05-22: Bibek Debroy – India;
• 2007-02-20: Bihodjal Rahimova – Tajikistan;
• 2009-01-18: Bill Drayton (William) – USA;
• 2006-06-20: Bilquis Edhi – Pakistan;
• 2008-12-22: Bina D’costa – Australia;
• 2007-11-18: Binayak Sen – India;
• 2008-08-07: Binda Pandey – Nepal;
• 2008-03-12: Biro Bala Rava – India;
• 2008-07-11: Biserka Momcinovic – Croatia;
• 2006-07-23: Bjorn Lomborg – Denmark;
• 2006-07-03: Blanca Campoverde – Ecuador;
• 2005-12-20: Bogaletch Gebre – Ethiopia;
• 2006-05-20: Bosiljka Schedlich – Germany and Croatia;
• 2006-10-24: Boua Chanthou – Cambodia;
• 2007-02-25: Boualaphet Chounthavong – Laos;
• 2006-10-03: Bradford Dillman – USA;
• 2009-02-11: Brendan Barber – England;
• 2008-08-18: Bret Benjamin – USA;
• 2008-04-01: Brian Moore – USA;
• 2008-11-09: Brigitta Renyaan Sr. – Indonesia;
• 2007-11-07: Bruce Cumings – USA;
• 2008-07-28: Bruce Fein – USA;
• 2008-06-10: Bruce Marks – USA;
• 2007-11-02: Bruna Siricio Iro – Sudan;
• 2008-04-25: Bruno Manser – Switzerland (1954 – 2000?);
• 2007-06-23: Bryant G. Garth – USA;
• 2008-07-06: Bülent Ersoy – Turkey;
• 2007-02-12: Byllye Avery – USA;
• 2007-07-16: Byubyusara Ryskulova – Kyrgyzstan;
• 2007-03-14: C. G. Weeramantry, Judge – Sri Lanka;
• 2007-08-27: C.T. Lawrence Butler – USA;
• 2007-08-19: Candelaria Hernandez Gabriel – Guatemala;
• 2008-10-16: Candi Smucker – USA;
• 2005-10-22: Carl Bucher – Switzerland;
• 2008-04-17: Carla del Ponte – Switzerland;
• 2009-01-16: Carol Chomsky – USA (1930 – 2008);
• 2006-12-18: Caroline Lucas – England;
• 2008-06-05: Caroline Moorehead – England;
• 2007-03-21: Carolyn Nordstrom – USA;
• 2009-02-14: Cassandra Balchin – England;
• 2006-07-15: Chahla Beski-Chafiq – Iran and France;
• 2006-02-19: Chalmers Johnson – USA;
• 2007-07-12: Chalmers Johnson – USA;
• 2007-05-01: Champa Devi Shukla – India;
• 2007-06-15: Chantal Marie Rachelle Ouedraogo – Burkina Faso;
• 2006-11-08: Charlotte Bunch – USA;
• 2007-12-19: Chea Vannath – Cambodia;
• 2006-08-28: Chen Guangcheng – China;
• 2006-05-18: Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims – Canada and Afghanistan;
• 2007-02-27: Chhing Lamu Sherpa – Nepal;
• 2006-01-03: Chibli Mallat – Lebanon;
• 2006-11-28: Chin Yu Hsu – Taiwan;
• 2007-01-19: Ching Chee Lee – China, Hong Kong SAR;
• 2008-01-03: Chitamma – India;
• 2006-11-28: Chiu Hsiang Huang – Taiwan;
• 2008-06-29: Chris Hedges – USA;
• 2008-01-07: Chris Maser – USA;
• 2008-05-31: Chris Nineham – England;
• 2008-08-30: Chris Norwood- USA;
• 2005-12-28: Christian Tomuschat – Germany;
• 2008-05-12: Christiane Nusslein-Volhard – Germany;
• 2006-12-17: Christina Nsekela – Tanzania;
• 2006-08-12: Christine Ntahe – Burundi;
• 2008-12-15: Chukwumuanya Igboekwu – Nigeria;
• 2006-08-02: Chunxia Li – China;
• 2007-07-04: Cisse Hadja Mariama Sow – Guinea;
• 2006-01-21: Claire Mahon – Australia and Switzerland;
• 2007-01-24: Colette Samoya Kirura – Burundi;
• 2008-04-26: Collin Greer – USA;
• 2008-04-22: Concita Maia – Brazil;
• 2008-12-23: Conor Cruise O’Brien – Ireland (1917 – 2008);
• 2008-10-06: Cora Weiss – USA;
• 2006-02-18: Coretta Scott King – USA (1927-2006);
• 2005-11-03: Corinne Gobin – Belgium;
• 2008-05-30: Cornel Ronald West – USA;
• 2008-04-12: Creuza Maria Oliveira – Brazil;
• 2007-08-15: Cristina Guseth – Romania;
• 2007-03-12: Cyd Ho Sau-lan – China, Hong Kong SAR;
• 2008-08-31: Cynthia Basinet – USA;
• 2006-03-03: Cynthia Maung – Burma;
• 2007-02-28: Cynthia McKinney – USA;
• 2007-09-15: Dahr Jamail – USA;
• 2007-04-23: Dandi Lou Helene Amanan – Cote d’Ivoire;
• 2008-10-25: Daniel Goeudevert – France;
• 2008-03-02: Daniel H. Yergin – USA;
• 2008-07-30: Danilo Dolci – Italy (1924 – 1997);
• 2008-07-26: Danny Schechter – USA;
• 2007-12-08: Dao Thi Bich Van – Viet Nam;
• 2007-07-20: Daofu Chen – China;
• 2006-12-24: Daphne Economou – Greece;
• 2008-07-18: Daphne Jansen – South Africa;
• 2006-08-27: Darshan Pal – India;
• 2009-02-02: Dave Lindorff - USA;
• 2009-01-19: David Cerny – Czech Republic;
• 2008-05-21: David Harris (the protester) – USA;
• 2007-12-12: David R. Smock – USA;
• 2006-04-26: David Rieff - USA;
• 2008-12-28: David Takayoshi Suzuki – Canada;
• 2007-04-24: David Truskoff – USA;
• 2007-09-13: David Vaughan Icke – England;
• 2006-07-31: Dawan Chantarahassadee – Thailand;
• 2006-12-26: Deepak Chopra – India and USA;
• 2006-11-15: Dele Olejede – Nigeria;
• 2006-02-04: Delphine Nana Mekounte – Cameroun;
• 2007-11-03: Demba Moussa Dembele – Senegal;
• 2007-03-26: Denis Robert – France;
• 2008-08-21: Dennis John Kucinich – USA;
• 2006-09-03: Devaki Jain – India;
• 2008-08-02: Devinder Sharma – India;
• 2006-10-12: Dianmin Wang – China;
• 2007-05-24: Dick Marty – Switzerland;
• 2007-02-14: Dilorom Mukhsinova – Uzbekistan;
• 2006-02-14: Dina Abdel Wahab – Egypt;
• 2006-01-29: Divina Frau-Meigs – France;
• 2008-05-03: Dominique Plihon – France;
• 2006-01-27: Domitila Barrios de Chungara – Bolivia;
• 2008-09-12: Donald Rayfield – England;
• 2007-08-02: Donna Fernandes – India;
• 2006-05-13: Dora Nkem Akunyili – Nigeria;
• 2006-10-18: Doreen Spence – Canada;
• 2005-11-29: Doris Vetsch – Switzerland;
• 2008-12-17: Dorothea Christiane Erxleben alias Dorothea Chr. Leporin – Germany (1715 – 1762);
• 2008-12-02: Dorothy Rupert – USA;
• 2006-05-17: Douangdeuane Bounyavong – Laos;
• 2008-08-08: Dragica Aleksa – Croatia;
• 2007-01-09: Drucilla K. Barker – USA;
• 2007-02-05: Duiji – India;
• 2007-03-03: Dulcy de Silva – Sri Lanka;
• 2006-08-11: Duong Thu Huong – Viet Nam;
• 2008-12-31: Durga Devi – India.
• 2006-03-31: Durga Sob – Nepal;
• 2008-03-17: Durre Sameen Ahmed – Pakistan;
• 2006-09-14: Dylan Avery – USA;
• 2008-02-12: Ebadon Bibi – Bangladesh;
• 2006-02-26: Edward Broadbent – Canada;
• 2008-07-22: Edward Wadie Said – USA /British Palestinia (1935-2003);
• 2006-06-11: Ela Bhatt – India;
• 2006-05-11: Elahe Sharifpour-Hicks – USA and Iran;
• 2008-05-29: Eliane Potiguara – Brazil;
• 2008-08-03: Elisa Gahapon del Puerto – Philippines (1957- *);
• 2007-05-28: Elisabet Sahtouris – USA and Greece;
• 2007-10-14: Elisabeth Reusse-Decrey – Switzerland;
• 2007-06-20: Elizabeth Ann Gray China, Hong Kong SAR;
• 2008-11-08: Elizabeth Betita Martinez – USA;
• 2008-05-07: Elizabeth Edattukaran – India;
• 2007-02-24: Elizabeth Neuenschwander – Switzerland;
• 2006-08-18: Elizabeth Odio Benito – Costa Rica;
• 2008-09-29: Elizabeth Teixeira – Brazil;
• 2006-04-19: Ella-Maria Polyakova – Russia;
• 2008-10-17: Ellen Barry – USA;
• 2005-11-09: Ellen R. Reese – USA;
• 2007-10-07: Elmar Altvater – Germany;
• 2006-10-04: Elmi Asha Hagi Amin – Somalia;
• 2006-10-07: Elsie Monge – Ecuador;
• 2009-01-15: Elza Berquó – Brazil;
• 2007-01-14: Elzita Santa Cruz Oliveira – Brazil;
• 2008-06-22: Emma Goldman – Lithuania-Russia-USA (1869 – 1940);
• 2007-05-03: Emma Leslie – Cambodia;
• 2009-03-06: Emmeline Pankhurst – England (1858 – 1928);
• 2008-07-01: Eric Alterman – USA;
• 2008-05-20: Eric Breteau – France;
• 2006-12-09: Eric Donald Hirsch – USA;
• 2007-09-01: Eric Hobsbawm – England;
• 2009-02-15: Eric Margolis – USA and Canada;
• 2008-02-16: Eric Reeves – USA;
• 2006-01-01: Eric Stover – USA;
• 2006-01-23: Eric Toussaint – Belgium;
• 2008-06-24: Eric Walberg – Canada;
• 2007-01-02: Erika Lesser – USA;
• 2007-10-26: Ermira Mehmeti – Macedonia;
• 2007-07-29: Ernest Callenbach – USA;
• 2007-06-08: Erni Friholt – Sweden;
• 2006-11-14: Ervin Laszlo – Hungary;
• 2008-06-17: Erwin Wagenhofer – Austria;
• 2006-06-29: Erzsebet Turos – Romania;
• 2007-11-02: Ester Kuku Rahal – Sudan;
• 2009-03-14: Esthi Susanti Hudiono – Indonesia; 3
• 2006-11-23: Eugen Drewermann – Germany;
• 2006-04-27: Eunice Nangueve Inacio – Angola;
• 2006-07-13: Eva Hoffmann – USA-Canada-Poland;
• 2006-02-01: Eva Latham – Netherlands;
• 2006-05-24: Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan – Peru;
• 2007-04-21: Evelyn Pringle – USA;
• 2006-03-07: Fackson Shamenda – Zambia;
• 2006-04-29: Faith Bandler – Australia;
• 2007-06-27: Fanny Sonia Pollarolo Villa – Chile;
• 2007-04-20: Farida Shaheed – Pakistan;
• 2005-10-30: Fatemeh Haghighatjoo – Iran;
• 2007-11-02: Fatima Abdelrahim Osman – Sudan;
• 2007-11-02: Fatima Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim – Sudan;
• 2007-09-25: Fatima Gazieva – Russia;
• 2008-12-03: Fatima Jinnah – Pakistan (1893 — 1967);
• 2005-12-07: Fatimakhon Ahmedova – Tajikistan;
• 2007-09-29: Fatimata Toure – Mali;
• 2009-02-27: Fatma Hamisi Misango – Tanzania;
• 2007-08-24: Fatmire Feka – Serbia;
• 2006-05-21: Fatoumata Dembele Diarra – Mali;
• 2006-10-25: Fawzia Adam – Somalia;
• 2007-12-31: Felicity Arbuthnot – England;
• 2008-05-18: Felisa Tibbitts – USA;
• 2007-09-27: Felister Chinthunzi – Malawi;
• 2008-05-16: Fenglan Liu – China;
• 2008-04-04: Fengxiang Xu – China;
• 2006-12-28: Ferial Haffejee – South Africa;
• 2006-11-12: Feroz Mehdi – Canada and Pakistan;
• 2008-12-21: Fethullah Güllen – Turkey;
• 2006-10-29: Fiame Naomi Mataafa – Samoa;
• 2005-11-22: Firdous Tabasum – India and Kashmir;
• 2005-11-05: Firouzeh Nahavandi – Iran and France;
• 2008-02-04: Flavia Agnes – India;
• 2007-10-03: Florence Aubenas – Belgium;
• 2007-05-07: Florence Muia – Kenya;
• 2007-07-24: Florentine Bodo Ramambasoa – Madagascar;
• 2006-01-09: Florian Klenk – Austria;
• 2008-01-09: Francis F. Muguet – France;
• 2008-01-23: Francis S.L. Wang – USA and China;
• 2007-06-25: Francis X. D’Sa – India;
• 2007-03-20: Francisco Chico Whitaker Ferreira – Brazil;
• 2009-02-07: Frank R. Rijsberman – Netherlands;
• 2007-04-19: Franziska Brantner – Germany;
• 2008-03-06: Fred Halliday – Ireland;
• 2006-06-05: Frederick Akhelumele – Nigeria;
• 2008-09-08: Frederick William Engdahl – Germany and USA;
• 2008-05-19: Fredric William Brown – USA (1906 – 1972);
• 2009-01-31: Freshta Shikhany – Pakistan ex Afghanistan;
• 2008-09-23: Fumihiko Sueki – Japan;
• 2006-12-21: G. Edward Griffin – USA;
• 2006-10-16: Gabriel Kolko – USA;
• 2006-09-25: Gabriela Ngirmang – Palau;
• 2008-10-05: Gaither Stewart – USA;
• 2006-12-25: Galina Drebezova – Belarus;
• 2005-10-24: Galsan Tschinag – Mongolia;
• 2009-02-20: Galuh Wandita – Indonesia;
• 2008-05-04: Gandhian Nirmala Deshpande – India (1929 – 2008);
• 2008-07-02: Gareth Porter – USA;
• 2006-10-19: Gauriben RaysinghbHai KOLI – India;
• 2007-02-19: Gavkhar Juraeva – Tajikistan;
• 2008-10-22: Gayle Williams – South Africa and UK (1974 – 2008);
• 2008-05-24: Gege Katana Bukuru – Congo;
• 2007-05-17: Gendun Choephel – Tibet (1903 – 1951);
• 2007-09-19: Genoveva Ximenes Alves – East Timor;
• 2006-12-16: Geoff Mulgan – England;
• 2006-01-30: George Alagiah – England-Africa-Sri Lanka;
• 2007-08-03: George J. Borjas – USA;
• 2006-06-14: George Khutsishvili – Georgia;
• 2007-01-05: George Monbiot – England;
• 2005-12-12: Gerald Nagler – Sweden;
• 2009-03-12: Germaine Greer – Australia;
• 2007-07-02: Gertrude Ibengwe Mongella – Tanzania;
• 2008-01-22: Geum-Soon Yoon – South Korea;
• 2006-04-20: Ghada Jamshir – Bahrain;
• 2009-02-22: Gil Scott-Heron – USA;
• 2008-11-11: Gillian Tett – England;
• 2008-08-29: Giordano Bruno – Italy (1548 – 1600);
• 2006-08-04: Giulietto Chiesa – Italy;
• 2006-11-01: Gladira Auxiliadora Talavera Garcia – Nicaragua;
• 2008-06-25: Gladys Marín Millié – Chile (1941 – 2005);
• 2008-05-02: Glen Ford – USA;
• 2006-08-31: Godelive Miburo – Burundi;
• 2006-04-05: Golbarg Bashi – Iran and USA;
• 2008-06-18: Gore Vidal – USA;
• 2006-02-10: Govindappa Venkataswamy – India;
• 2007-06-17: Grace Aboh Dotou – Benin;
• 2006-06-03: Grace Antonia D’Almeida – Benin;
• 2009-01-02: Grace Paley – USA (1922 – 2007);
• 2008-04-10: Gregory T. Nojeim – USA;
• 2007-12-16: Guadalupe Hernandez Dimas Nana Lu – Mexico;
• 2006-06-23: Guadalupe Mejia Delgado – El Salvador;
• 2007-07-18: Guangren Zhou – China;
• 2007-11-24: Guilan Wang – China;
• 2007-04-04: Guilian Li – China;
• 2008-05-16: Guimei Zhang – China;
• 2006-09-10: Guirong Tian – China;
• 2007-12-15: Guixin Yu – China;
• 2007-07-19: Gulnara Derbisheva – Kyrgyzstan;
• 2007-08-10: Gus Cairns – England;
• 2008-10-10: Hadayai Majeed – USA;
• 2007-03-15: Hadizatou Issa Iyayi – Niger;
• 2007-04-10: Hafsat Abiola – Nigeria;
• 2007-05-13: Haifa Abu Ghazaleh – Jordan;
• 2007-02-10: Ha-Joon Chang – Korea and England;
• 2007-12-23: Hakkuben Theba – India;
• 2009-01-07: Hanan Ashrawi – Palestine;
• 2006-06-26: Hanif Kureishi – England and Pakistan;
• 2009-01-06: Hannelore Vonier – Germany and USA;
• 2007-06-21: Hans A. Pestalozzi – Switzerland (1929 – 2004);
• 2009-01-23: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht – Germany and USA;
• 2007-09-16: Haris Ibrahim – Malaysia;
• 2008-11-18: Harro von Senger – Switzerland;
• 2008-01-15: Harry B. Coonce – USA;
• 2005-11-16: Harry Wu – China and USA;
• 2007-08-14: Harsh Dobhal – India;
• 2007-11-09: Harvey B. Feigenbaum – USA;
• 2007-12-18: Harvey Franklin Wasserman – USA;
• 2006-02-16: Hasanain Juaini – Indonesia;
• 2009-01-08: Haya Shalom – Israel;
• 2007-01-06: Hazel Henderson – England and USA;
• 2007-06-14: Hazel Magdalene King – Barbados;
• 2006-09-24: Hedwig Vinyou – Cameroon;
• 2009-01-05: Heide Göttner-Abendroth – Germany;
• 2005-09-02: Heidi Barathieu-Brun – Switzerland;
• 2007-12-17: Heidi Tagliavini – Switzerland;
• 2007-05-25: Heisoo Shin – South Korea;
• 2007-10-27: Helen John – England;
• 2007-09-08: Helen Munthali – Malawi;
• 2008-02-12: Hena Das – Bangladesh;
• 2006-09-21: Henny Yudea – Indonesia;
• 2008-08-28: Henriette Carvalho Kouyate – Mali;
• 2007-02-23: Hermann Scheer – Germany;
• 2009-03-31: Hermawati – Indonesia;
• 2005-11-13: Hernan Reyes – Chile, New York and Geneva;
• 2007-05-29: Hernando de Soto – Peru;
• 2006-01-19: Hero Ahmad – Iraq ;
• 2007-08-21: Hilda Djulaida Rolobessy – Indonesia;
• 2006-12-12: Hilda Liria Domico Bailarin – Colombia;
• 2007-12-20: Hilda Marina Morales Trujillo – Guatemala;
• 2006-11-06: Hilda van Stockum – Netherlands (1908-2006);
• 2006-09-16: Hildegard Goss-Mayr – Austria;
• 2006-08-17: Hina Jilani – Pakistan;
• 2007-10-16: Hollman Felipe Morris – Colombia
• 2008-09-24: Holly Near – USA;
• 2008-08-26: Holt Ruffin – USA;
• 2006-12-13: Hongxia REN – China;
• 2005-10-28: Horst-Eberhard Richter – Germany;
• 2005-12-13: Hossein Bagher Zadeh – Iran;
• 2009-01-27: Houda Mahamat Malloum – Chad;
• 2008-07-31: Howard L. Fuller – USA;
• 2006-07-07: Howard Zinn – USA;
• 2007-01-20: Hrant Dink – Turkey (1954 – 2007);
• 2007-11-12: Hu Jia – China;
• 2005-12-31: Hualian Wang – China, Jiangxi;
• 2008-02-03: Hyun-Sook Lee – South Korea;
• 2006-04-23: Ibn Warraq – Anonyma International;
• 2007-09-21: Ibrahim Warde – USA;
• 2007-11-19: iFaqeer – Pakistan and USA;
• 2006-07-22: Immanuel Wallerstein – USA;
• 2009-02-08: Indira Jaising – India;
• 2007-12-25: Indrani Sinha – India;
• 2007-11-05: Ingrid Eide – Norway;
• 2007-07-25: Irene Chaluluka – Malawi;
• 2006-04-11: Irene Fernandez – Malaysia;
• 2006-07-01: Irene Morada Santiago – Philippines;
• 2006-05-03: Irene Rodriguez – Switzerland and Argentinia;
• 2007-08-16: Irina Dementieva – Russia;
• 2006-01-11: Irina Grushevaya – Belarus;
• 2007-03-07: Irina Mutsuovna Khakamada (Hakamada) – Russia;
• 2006-05-10: Irina Yanovskaya – Georgia;
• 2009-03-05: Irma Schwager – Austria;
• 2008-04-05: Irma Leticia Silva Rodriguez de Oyuela – Honduras;
• 2007-10-21: Irom Sharmila Chanu – India;
• 2006-03-26: Irshad Manji – Canada;
• 2008-04-04: Isabel Crook – China;
• 2006-10-02: Isabelle Werenfels – Germany;
• 2008-04-02: Ishbel Maria Aberdeen – England (1857 – 1939);
• 2006-05-05: Ismat Chughtai – Pakistan-India (1915 – 1991);
• 2007-07-15: Itsmania Erohyna Pineda Platero – Honduras;
• 2006-09-19: Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka – Poland;
• 2006-04-16: Izzat GHAZZAWI – Palestinian (1951 – 2003);
• 2007-05-09: Jacob S. Hacker – USA;
• 2008-01-08: Jacqueline Kelen – France;
• 2009-01-01: Jacqueline Pitanguy – Brazil;
• 2009-03-29: Jacquie Cozens – Ireland;
• 2008-03-29: Jagan Suba Gurung – Nepal;
• 2007-10-24: Jamal Saadeddine Ibrahim – Egypt;
• 2007-10-28: James Bovard – USA;
• 2008-11-30: James Cogan – Australia;
• 2008-04-11: James Forman – USA (1928 – 2005);
• 2006-09-05: James J. Puplava – USA;
• 2006-08-01: James K. Galbraith – USA;
• 2008-08-25: James Petras – USA;
• 2008-12-08: James Zogby – USA;
• 2008-05-27: Jamyang Kyi – China, Tibet;
• 2008-09-10: Janaki – India;
• 2007-03-31: Jane Goodall – USA;
• 2007-02-11: Jane Roberts – USA;
• 2006-06-21: Janet L. Abu-lughod – USA;
• 2008-08-17: Janusz Korczak alias Henryk Goldszmit – Poland (1877 – 1942);
• 2005-11-04: Jared Diamond – USA;
• 2006-01-31: Jaribu Hill – USA;
• 2006-08-21: Jason Leopold – USA;
• 2006-04-18: Jason Morrison – USA;
• 2007-01-12: Jason Rezaian – Iran and USA;
• 2009-01-29: Jawed Naqvi – India;
• 2008-02-19: Jayati Chowdhury – India;
• 2008-09-30: Jean Baudrillard – France (1929 – 2007);
• 2006-08-13: Jean Bricmont – Belgium;
• 2008-10-27: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio – France;
• 2008-02-17: Jean Piaget – Switzerland;
• 2007-03-13: Jean Plantureux alias PLANTU – France;
• 2005-11-28: Jean Ziegler – Switzerland;
• 2007-06-03: Jeanne Devos – Belgium;
• 2008-01-19: Jeanne M. Gacoreke – Burundi;
• 2007-06-18: Jeannine Nahigombeye – Burundi;
• 2006-01-02: Jemma Hasratyan – Armenia;
• 2006-02-24: Jens Bjorneboe – Norway (1920 – 1976);
• 2006-05-30: Jeremy Corbyn – England;
• 2006-11-30: Jerry Mander – USA;
• 2007-05-26: Jerry Mander – USA;
• 2008-01-02: Jerry Mazza – USA;
• 2008-02-24: Jerry Okungu – Kenya;
• 2006-07-09: Jessica Garcia – Honduras;
• 2009-03-08: Jestina Mukoko – Zimbabwe;
• 2007-07-09: Jianhua Wang – China;
• 2007-09-12: Jianli Yun – China;
• 2008-05-01: Jianmei Guo – China;
• 2007-12-28: Jihui Zhang – China;
• 2008-04-04: Jinming Zhang – China;
• 2007-07-09: Jiuhua Wu – China;
• 2007-06-24: Jiying Xu – China;
• 2008-04-04: Jiyue Li – China;
• 2008-03-14: Jo Vallentine – Australia;
• 2007-05-21: Jo Wilding – England;
• 2007-04-01: Joachim Fest – Germany (1926 – 2006);
• 2007-12-10: Joan Hinton alias Han Chun – China and USA;
• 2007-11-13: Joel S. Hirschhorn – USA;
• 2009-03-18: Joênia Batista de Carvalho – Brazil;
• 2007-01-18: Johan Galtung – Norway;
• 2008-02-21: Johann Hari – England;
• 2009-01-13: John Case alias Jim and Carolyn Hougan – USA;
• 2007-06-12: John D. Skrentny – USA;
• 2008-06-23: John Feffer – USA;
• 2006-03-13: John Grahl – England;
• 2009-03-11: John Hoyer Updike – USA (1932 – 2009);
• 2005-11-01: John Kenneth Galbraight – USA;
• 2008-12-01: John Knox – Scottland-England (1505-1572);
• 2006-11-03: John Perkins – USA;
• 2008-01-17: John Perkins – USA;
• 2007-02-26: John Pilger – Australia and England;
• 2006-01-18: John Shattuck – USA;
• 2007-07-22: Jonathon Espie Porritt – England;
• 2006-08-07: JOSE ANTONIO OCAMPO – Colombia;
• 2007-10-02: Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui /Tupac Amaru II – Peru (1742 – 1781);
• 2007-01-16: Jose Ramos Horta – East Timor;
• 2008-06-06: Joseph Ki-Zerbo – Burkina Faso (1922 – 2006);
• 2008-08-23: Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. – USA;
• 2008-08-19: Josephine Bernadette Devlin McAliskey – England;
• 2007-03-04: Josie Tankunani Sirivi – Papua New Guinea;
• 2006-10-06: Joy DeGruy-Leary – USA;
• 2006-08-09: Juan Goytisolo – Spain;
• 2005-12-16: Judith Lewis Herman – USA;
• 2008-03-21: Judy Thongori – Kenya;
• 2006-03-20: Julien Florence Mona Saroinsong – Indonesia;
• 2007-07-31: Jurgen Cain Kulbel – Germany;
• 2007-11-21: Justin Raimondo – USA;
• 2007-01-21: Justine Masika Bihamba – Congo;
• 2006-02-13: Kafil Ahmed – Bangladesh;
• 2007-01-17: Kai Brand-Jacobsen – Romania;
• 2006-02-21: Kailash Satyarthi – India;
• 2008-07-07: Kaisha Atakhanova – Kazakhstan;
• 2009-01-04: Kalinga Seneviratne – Sri Lanka;
• 2008-10-15: Kate Donnelly – USA;
• 2008-06-12: Kama Steliga – Canada;
• 2007-02-22: Kamal Nazer Yasin – Iran;
• 2006-06-08: Kamala Sarup – Nepal;
• 2006-05-15: Karen E. Mundy – Canada;
• 2008-04-28: Karen Silkwood – USA (1946 – 1974);
• 2008-08-10: Karla-Maria Schälike – Germany;
• 2007-06-05: Karla Schefter – Germany;
• 2006-12-04: Karl-Henrik Robert – Sweden;
• 2008-12-11: Karsten Kjaer – Denmark;
• 2009-03-20: Karsten Weitzenegger – Germany;
• 2006-04-30: Kashi Nath Pandita – India;
• 2006-10-15: Katajun Amirpur – Iran and Germany;
• 2005-11-30: Katarina Tomasevski – Croatia;
• 2007-06-30: Kate Adoo Adeku – Ghana;
• 2008-11-12: Kate Fereday Eshete – Ethiopia and England;
• 2008-11-14: Kate Michelman – USA;
• 2006-07-18: Katrin Rohde – Burkina Faso and Germany;
• 2007-07-03: Katsuko Nomura – Japan;
• 2007-09-10: Kavita Ramdas – India and USA;
• 2008-02-09: Keepu Tsering Lepcha – India;
• 2005-11-26: Keiko Sugi – Japan;
• 2007-08-28: Keith McHenry – USA;
• 2005-10-23: Ken Bugul – Senegal;
• 2006-04-13: Kenneth Deer – Mohawk Nation, Canada;
• 2008-12-13: Kenneth Roth – USA;
• 2007-05-08: Kevin Phillips – USA;
• 2007-05-11: Khadija Al-Haisami alias Khadigah Ahmad al-Haisami – Yemen;
• 2008-05-17: Khalid al-Maaly – Iraq and Germany;
• 2006-05-19: Khalida Messaoudi – Algeria;
• 2006-06-07: Khun Htun Oo – Burma;
• 2006-12-02: Khushi Kabir – Bangladesh;
• 2006-02-28: Kimpa Vita – Congo (1684 – 1706);
• 2006-02-17: Kinhide Mushakoji – Japan;
• 2006-03-19: Kiran Bedi – India;
• 2008-11-10: Kip Tiernan – USA;
• 2008-11-17: Komal Srivastava – India;
• 2007-04-27: Kommaly Chanthavong – Laos;
• 2007-09-07: Kongdeuane Nettavong – Laos;
• 2006-09-20: Kongosi Onia Mussanzi – Congo;
• 2006-03-11: Konrad Paul Liessmann – Austria;
• 2007-11-29: Konstantin Simonov – Russia;
• 2006-08-10: Krishna Ahooja-Patel – India;
• 2008-10-26: Krishnammal Jagannaathan – India;
• 2005-11-08: Kritaya Archavanitkul – Thailand;
• 2008-01-04: Kumiko Yokoi – Japan;
• 2006-11-28: Kun Lei – Taiwan;
• 2006-07-29: Kundan Lal Chowdhury – India, Kashmir;
• 2007-09-17: Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta – Australia;
• 2007-10-17: Kurt Julius Goldstein – Germany (1914 – 2007);
• 2007-04-28: Kurt Vonnegut – USA (1922 – 2007);
• 2008-01-28: Laila Iskandar – Egypt;
• 2006-06-24: Laila Lalami – Morocco;
• 2007-05-04: Lalao Flaurence Randriamampionona – Madagascar;
• 2007-02-07: Lalita Ramdas – India;
• 2006-10-14: Lan Hsiang Hsu – Taiwan;
• 2008-12-20: Landon Pearson – Canada;
• 2008-11-23: Lara Shankar - India;
• 2007-12-22: Lataben Sachde – India;
• 2007-07-23: Latifabano Mohammad Yusuf Getali – India;
• 2006-04-08: Laurence Parisot – France;
• 2006-01-08: Laurie King-Irani – Canada;
• 2006-11-01: Lazara Lizette Vila Espina – Cuba;
• 2007-06-02: Lazzat Ishmukhamedova – Kazakhstan;
• 2007-11-20: Lea Ngaidana – Central African Republic;
• 2007-02-02: Leelakumari Amma – India;
• 2006-12-23: Leena Joshi – India;
• 2006-08-30: Leitanthem Umakanta Meitei – India;
• 2008-06-28: Lenira Maria de Carvalho – Brazil;
• 2008-11-19: Leonardo Boff – Brazil;
• 2007-01-25: Leonie Barakomeza – Burundi;
• 2007-08-29: Lesley Ann Foster – South Africa;
• 2005-10-14: Leslie Cagan – USA;
• 2007-07-11: Lester Brown – USA;
• 2008-08-05: Letizia Battaglia – Italy;
• 2006-06-15: Leyla Zana – Turkey, Kurdish part;
• 2006-02-09: Lida Yusupova – Russia /Chechnya;
• 2006-08-25: Lidia Grafova – Russia;
• 2007-06-11: Lidy Nacpil – Philippines;
• 2008-04-23: Lihong Shi – China;
• 2008-01-18: Lihua Xie – China;
• 2007-04-25: Lijuan XIANG – China;
• 2006-03-26: Limota Goroso Giwa (Hajiya) – Nigeria;
• 2006-11-28: Lin Ching Hsia – Taiwan;
• 2007-09-09: Lina Kostenko – Ukraine;
• 2008-10-23: Linda Burnham – USA;
• 2006-11-25: Ling Zhao – China;
• 2008-05-28: Linh Dinh – Vietnam and USA;
• 2009-02-12: Lita Anggraini – Indonesia;
• 2007-02-11: Lois Abraham – USA;
• 2006-11-26: Lo Sai “Rose” Wu – China, Hong Kong SAR;
• 2007-08-04: Loreta Navarro-Castro – Philippines;
• 2006-10-30: Lori Wallach – USA;
• 2007-01-26: Lotti Latrous – Cote d’Ivoire;
• 2005-12-30: Luc Walleyn – Belgium;
• 2006-04-07: Luci Teresinha Choinacki – Brazil;
• 2008-01-27: Lucia Willis Paau – Guatemala;
• 2006-11-28: Lucie Cheng – Taiwan;
• 2006-02-25: Luigi Tosti, Judge – Italy;
• 2007-08-06: Luis Macas Ambuludi – Ecuador;
• 2006-07-25: Luisa Morgantini – Italy;
• 2007-04-12: Luz Perly Cordoba Mosquera – Colombia;
• 2006-04-03: Lydia Cacho Ribeiro – Mexico;
• 2006-11-16: Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo – Botswana;
• 2008-04-16: Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. – USA;
• 2009-03-16: Lynn Fattouh / MC Lix / Malikah – Lebanon;
• 2007-05-15: Lynnsay Rongokea Francis – Cook Islands;
• 2006-10-21: Lyudmila Alekseeva – Russia;
• 2007-08-11: Lyudmila Pavlichenko – Russia;
• 2008-07-13: M.K. Bhadrakumar – India;
• 2006-12-08: Macaria Barai – Guinea-Bissau;
• 2007-04-03: Macedonia Dona Mace Blas – Mexico;
• 2007-10-04: Madeeha Gauhar – Pakistan;
• 2007-08-01: Madhu Kishwar – India;
• 2006-02-03: Magdalena Sepulveda – Chile and Colombia;
• 2007-10-05: Maggiorina Balbuena – Paraguay;
• 2008-07-14: Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Canada;
• 2006-11-09: Mahmood Mamdani – USA and Uganda;
• 2006-05-22: Mahnaz Afkhami – Iran;
• 2006-03-24: Malalai Joya – Afghanistan;
• 2007-05-23: Malek Chebel – Algeria and France;
• 2008-07-17: Mallika Sarabhai – India;
• 2007-04-05: Mama Koite Doumbia – Mali;
• 2006-10-13: Mama Margaretha SAKO – Indonesia;
• 2007-10-12: Mandira Sharma – Nepal;
• 2007-11-22: Mandisi Majavu – South Africa;
• 2008-10-02: Mandy Carter – USA;
• 2007-02-21: Manfred Max-Neef – Chile;
• 2006-01-10: Manfred Nowak – Austria;
• 2007-01-01: Maninha Xukuru-Kariri – Brazil (1966 – 2006);
• 2007-11-08: Marc Garmirian – Lebanon and France;
• 2007-07-21: Marcel Barang – France and Thailand;
• 2008-09-16: Marcel Votlucka – USA;
• 2006-01-07: Margaret Dongo – Zimbabwe;
• 2008-08-09: Margaret Hassan – Ireland-England-Iraq (1945 – 2004?);
• 2006-10-10: Margaret Ntuti AKWALU – Kenya;
• 2006-07-02: Margarita Assenova – USA and Bulgaria;
• 2005-12-05: Marguerite Barankitse – Burundi;
• 2007-09-23: Maria Beatriz Aniceto Pardo – Colombia;
• 2006-12-27: Maria Brigada GONZALEZ de CARTAGENA – Colombia;
• 2006-09-18: Maria Cleofe Sumire Lopez – Peru;
• 2008-07-24: Maria Christina Färber – Germany;
• 2007-09-03: Maria de Jesus Haller – Angola;
• 2007-01-11: Maria del Carmen Sarthes – Argentina;
• 2008-07-05: María del Pilar Callizo López Moreira – Paraguay;
• 2008-05-14: Maria Domingas Fernandes Alves – East Timor;
• 2007-10-19: Maria Esther Ruiz Ortega – Honduras;
• 2007-11-23: Maria Eugenia Aguilar Castro – El Salvador;
• 2008-12-24: Maria Gaetana Agnesi – Italia (1718 – 1799);
• 2007-10-10: Maria Ines Gomes Rodrigues Fontinha – Portugal;
• 2008-12-09: María Inmaculada Lacarra Cabrerizo – Venezuela;
• 2007-04-11: Maria Jose de Oliveira Araujo – Brazil;
• 2008-11-28: Maria José (Zézé) Mota – Brazil;
• 2007-06-28: Maria Julia Hernandez Chavarria – El Salvador (1939 – 2007);
• 2006-11-02: Maria LINIBI – Papua New Guinea;
• 2007-10-22: Maria Luisa Navarro Garrido – Venezuela;
• 2006-07-24: Maria Manuela Perreira – East Timor;
• 2007-03-25: Maria Reinat-Pumarejo – Puerto Rico;
• 2006-12-03: Maria Szyszkowska – Poland;
• 2006-07-21: Maria Teresa Leal – Brazil;
• 2008-11-03: Maria Varela – USA;
• 2007-06-19: Marie Beatrice Kenfack Tolevi – Cameroon;
• 2006-08-08: Marie Carmele Rose-Anne Auguste – Haiti;
• 2007-10-01: Marie Lisette Talate – Mauritius;
• 2007-05-05: Marie Rose Cimpaye – Burundi;
• 2007-03-10: Marilyn Waring – New Zealand;
• 2008-12-19: Marion Thuswald – Austria;
• 2006-03-25: Marjana Senjak – Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2005-09-08: Marjane Satrapi – Iran and France;
• 2006-04-28: Marjorie Prentice Saunders – Jamaica;
• 2006-12-11: Mark Baimbridge – England;
• 2008-10-31: Mark Crispin Miller – USA;
• 2007-04-13: Mark Pieth – Switzerland;
• 2008-09-27: Mark Vernon – England;
• 2008-03-13: Mark Z. Jacobson – USA;
• 2005-09-05: Marla Ruzicka – USA – (1976 – 2005);
• 2009-03-23: Marshall Berman – USA;
• 2006-10-27: Marshall B. Rosenberg – Switzerland and USA;
• 2008-07-23: Marta Benavides – El Salvador;
• 2006-12-20: Marta Drury – USA;
• 2006-11-01: Marta Lucia Micher Camarena – Mexico;
• 2008-03-09: Marta Prekpalaj – Kosovo;
• 2005-09-10: Martha Craven Nussbaum – USA;
• 2008-07-03: Martha Isabel “Pati” Ruiz Corzo – Mexico-Jalpan;
• 2007-04-09: Martha Pelloni – Argentina;
• 2006-10-10: Martin Ennals – England (1927-1991);
• 2009-03-13: Martin Jacques – England;
• 2007-04-18: Martin Khor – Malaysia;
• 2007-08-18: Martin Scheinin – Finland;
• 2007-01-23: Martine Bonny Dikongue – Rwanda;
• 2007-07-27: Mary Brownell – Liberia;
• 2005-12-27: Mary Elizabeth Thunder, Rev. Mother – USA;
• 2008-10-11: Mary Kaldor – England;
• 2009-02-13: Mary Liston Liepold – USA;
• 2006-03-09: Maryam Namazie – Iran and UK;
• 2006-09-07: Massimo Trombin – Luxembourg;
• 2008-02-12: Masuda Banu Ratna – Bangladesh;
• 2008-07-21: Matt Stoller – USA;
• 2008-06-13: Matthew Lipman – USA;
• 2009-03-15: Matthias Chang – Malaysia;
• 2008-03-26: Maude Barlow – Canada;
• 2008-11-27: Maxine Waters – USA;
• 2009-02-24: Maya John Ingty – India;
• 2008-08-16: Maya Shovkhalova – Russian Federation;
• 2007-01-27: Meaza Ashenafi – Ethiopia;
• 2006-02-15: Medea Benjamin – USA;
• 2006-05-26: Medha Patkar – India;
• 2008-06-03: Megh Ale – Nepal;
• 2007-12-24: Meghiben Samariya – India;
• 2006-04-02: Mehdi Khanbaba-Tehrani – Europe and Iran;
• 2006-03-14: Mehdi Mozaffari – Iran and Denmark;
• 2008-02-13: Mehdi Parvizi Amineh – Netherlands;
• 2007-05-16: Mehreen Jabbar – Pakistan;
• 2007-08-30: Meihua Jin – China;
• 2007-12-29: Meiqing Hua – China;
• 2008-05-25: Meredith Tax – USA;
• 2008-07-29: Michael Albert – USA;
• 2007-12-07: Michael C. Ruppert – USA;
• 2008-04-24: Michael Edwards – USA;
• 2009-02-19: Michael Hudson – USA;
• 2008-12-12: Michael Krepon – USA;
• 2007-04-26: Michael Parenti – USA;
• 2007-04-08: Michael Schmidt-Salomon – Germany;
• 2006-09-04: Michael W. Hodges – USA;
• 2007-03-23: Michel Bauwens – Belgium and Thailand;
• 2006-07-26: Michel Chossudovsky – Canada;
• 2008-12-29: Michel Collon – Belgium;
• 2008-09-02: Michel Husson – France;
• 2008-01-05: Michel Onfray – France;
• 2009-03-04: Michel Sasseville – Canada;
• 2007-08-12: Mike Ghouse – USA;
• 2009-03-17: Mike Whitney – USA (the American writer);
• 2006-09-22: Millicent Obaso – Kenya;
• 2007-06-13: Miloon Kothari – India;
• 2006-02-12: Mimi Silbert – USA;
• 2007-10-11: Min Sun – China;
• 2007-10-30: Mina Ahadi – Iran;
• 2007-11-11: Mingxia Chen – China;
• 2006-10-08: Mireia Uranga Arakistain – Spain;
• 2008-09-04: Miriam Makeba – South Africa (1932 – 2008);
• 2007-04-29: Mirta Susana Clara – Argentina;
• 2008-02-25: Mithre J. Sandrasagra – USA;
• 2009-01-17: Mogullamma – India;
• 2006-02-06: Mohammad Yunus – Bangladesh;
• 2009-03-01: Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah – Soudan;
• 2006-03-05: Mohammed Farouk Auwalu – Nigeria;
• 2006-12-10: Mohau Pheko – South Africa;
• 2007-11-10: Mohua Paul – Bangladesh;
• 2007-08-09: Monika Gerstendorfer – Germany;
• 2007-04-14: Monika Hauser – Germany;
• 2005-12-06: Monowara Begum Monu – Bangladesh;
• 2007-08-26: Montserrat Sampere Martin – Spain;
• 2008-12-05: Moorthy Muthuswamy – India;
• 2005-10-16: Mordechai Vanunu – Israel;
• 2006-02-23: Moses Zulu – Zambia;
• 2008-05-08: Mrinal Gore – India;
• 2009-02-05: Mu Sochua – Cambodia;
• 2007-02-15: Mubarak Gurbanova – Turkmenistan;
• 2007-07-28: Muhammad Anwar Dar – Pakistan;
• 2008-01-31: Munir A. Malik – Pakistan.
• 2007-02-03: Murari Prameela – India;
• 2005-12-01: Mustafa Yildiz – Turkey and France;
• 2006-01-15: Mutabar Tadjibayeva – Uzbekistan;
• 2007-12-01: Muyesser Gunes – Turkey;
• 2006-05-14: Myla Jabilles Leguro – Philippines;
• 2008-12-06: N’Diaye Korotoumou Traoré – Mali;
• 2006-04-17: Nabeela Al-Mulla – Kuwait;
• 2006-11-11: Nada Alfy Thabet – Egypt;
• 2006-06-13: Nadia Ait Zai – Algeria;
• 2008-03-25: Nadine Gordimer – South Africa;
• 2008-07-20: Nadya Boneva – Bulgaria;
• 2009-01-09: Nafeesa Al Deek – Palestine;
• 2008-02-27: Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – England and Bangladesh;
• 2006-08-26: Nafis Sadik – Pakistan;
• 2007-11-02: Nafisa Mustafa Shargawi – Sudan;
• 2007-09-30: Najat M’jid – Morocco;
• 2007-09-28: Nancy Rivard – USA;
• 2008-02-12: Nanda Rani Das – Bangladesh;
• 2007-09-18: Nandita Haksar – India;
• 2006-06-28: Nang Charm Tong – Burma;
• 2008-09-19: Nani Zulminarni – Indonesia;
• 2007-09-14: Naomi Wolf – USA;
• 2008-12-18: Naseeb Mohammad Shaikh – India;
• 2007-04-06: Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd – Egypt;
• 2008-07-19: Nasra Souelem – Western Sahara;
• 2008-11-26: Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Lebanon and USA;
• 2009-01-21: Natacha Atlas – Belgium and UK;
• 2006-06-17: Natalia Shabunz – Turkmenistan;
• 2007-08-31: Natalya Berezhnaya – Russia;
• 2005-12-25: Navanethem Pillay, Judge – South Africa;
• 2006-05-07: Naw Zipporrah Sein – Burma alias Myamar;
• 2008-09-17: Neal Ascherson – England;
• 2008-04-07: Necla Kelek – Turkey and Germany;
• 2007-01-22: Neema Mgana – Tanzania;
• 2007-06-09: Negoita Cornelia – Romania;
• 2008-03-11: Neidonuo Angami – India;
• 2007-03-18: Nela Martinez Espinosa – Ecuador (1912 – 2004);
• 2006-12-22: Nestor Garcia Canclini – Mexico;
• 2006-11-04: Netsai Mushonga – Zimbabwe;
• 2006-04-10: Netsanet Mengistu – Ethiopia;
• 2008-03-23: New Territories Female Indigenous Residents’ Committee – Hong Kong SAR;
• 2006-10-20: Ngun Fung Liu – Hong Kong SAR;
• 2008-06-15: Nicholson Baker – USA;
• 2006-10-12: Nick (Nicholas) Turse – USA;
• 2008-04-14: Nicolasa Machaca Alejandro – Bolivia;
• 2006-11-01: Nicole Magloire – Haiti;
• 2008-09-20: Nigar Ahmad – Pakistan;
• 2008-08-14: Nigar Ataulla – India;
• 2006-04-24: Nigel Warburton – England;
• 2008-08-15: Nilda Estigarribia – Paraguay;
• 2008-07-04: Nilda Medina-Diaz – Puerto Rico;
• 2006-09-23: Nils Daulaire – USA;
• 2007-07-07: Nimalka Fernando – Sri Lanka;
• 2006-03-16: Nina Karpachova – Ukraine;
• 2007-03-11: Nina Simone /Eunice Kathleen Waymon – USA (1933 – 2003);
• 2006-11-10: Nino Burjanadze – Georgia;
• 2009-01-14: Nirmala – India;
• 2007-09-02: Nishikant Waghmare – India;
• 2006-11-19: Noeleen Heyzer – USA;
• 2006-01-26: Noeli Pocaterra – Venezuela;
• 2007-11-06: Nora Castaneda – Venezuela;
• 2005-10-26: Noreena Hertz – England;
• 2006-11-01: Norma Angelica Cruz Cordoba – Guatemala;
• 2007-10-18: Nosandla Malindi – South Africa;
• 2006-01-06: Nuri Albala - France;
• 2007-09-06: Nuria Costa Leonardo – Mexico;
• 2006-04-15: Nurit Peled – Israel;
• 2008-07-08: Nurjahan Begum – India;
• 2008-06-08: Nursyahbani Katjasungkana – Indonesia;
• 2006-05-08: Nuruddin Farah – Somalia;
• 2008-06-27: Ny Luangkhot – Laos;
• 2008-02-26: Oddom Van Syvorn – Cambodia;
• 2007-08-08: Olga del Valle Marquez de Aredez – Argentina (19xx-2005);
• 2008-02-29: Olivier Roy – France;
• 2007-05-19: Omar Khayyam – Iran (Persia, 1048 – 1131);
• 2006-03-18: Orhan Pamuk – Turkey;
• 2006-07-11: Oronto Douglas – Nigeria;
• 2006-08-15: Othmar Keel – Switzerland;
• 2006-03-29: Otilia Lux de Coti – Guatemla;
• 2006-02-27: Oung Chanthol – Cambodia;
• 2008-03-28: Pablo Ouziel – Spain;
• 2006-07-12: Paddy Walker – Cook Islands;
• 2006-09-15: Palwasha Hassan – Afghanistan;
• 2007-07-26: Paola Battagliola, Sr. – Italy;
• 2007-05-30: Parmaben Sava – India;
• 2007-10-09: Parshuram Rai – Nepal;
• 2007-11-15: Pascal Boniface – France;
• 2007-05-12: Patricia Gaffney – England;
• 2006-08-20: Patricia Verdugo Aguirre – Chile;
• 2008-10-29: Patrick Bond – South Africa;
• 2006-03-12: Patrick Brantlinger – USA;
• 2008-06-09: Patrick Cockburn – Ireland;
• 2007-03-08: Paul Beersmans – Belgium;
• 2008-02-20: Paul Craig Roberts – USA;
• 2005-11-06: Paul Farmer – USA and Haiti;
• 2008-11-05: Paul Grignon – Canada;
• 2008-08-12: Paul Jay – Canada;
• 2008-02-06: Paul Krugman – USA;
• 2007-02-13: Paul Rice – USA;
• 2008-03-27: Paul Wellstone – USA (1944 – 2002);
• 2006-12-31: Paula Clermont Pean – Haiti;
• 2006-11-22: Paula Makabory – Indonesia;
• 2008-02-05: Pauline Tangiora – New Zealand;
• 2006-10-05: Paw Lu Lu – Burma;
• 2007-01-31: Pekka Himanen – Finland;
• 2008-02-23: Pelagie Nduwayo-Ndikuriyo – Burundi;
• 2009-03-10: Pepe Escobar – Brazil;
• 2008-01-29: Pervin Buldan – Turkey;
• 2007-02-08: Peter Hardstaff – England;
• 2008-03-07: Peter Nalitch – Russia;
• 2009-01-24: Peter Piot – Belgium;
• 2006-12-19: Peter Sloterdijk – Germany;
• 2007-02-16: Peter Waterman – England;
• 2009-01-25: Philip Emeagwali – Nigeria and USA;
• 2009-03-21: Philip Pullman – England;
• 2008-02-10: Philip Stott – England;
• 2009-03-26: Phyllis Bennis – USA;
• 2007-02-17: Pier Paolo Pasolini – Italia (1922 – 1975);
• 2009-02-21: Pierre Claver Mbonimpa – Burundi;
• 2006-10-23: Pierre Salama – France;
• 2008-01-16: Pilirani Semu-Banda – Malawi;
• 2009-02-26: Pinar Ilkkaracan – Turkey;
• 2006-06-12: Piri Thomas – USA;
• 2008-07-27: Prabhu Guptara – India and Switzerland;
• 2007-08-23: Praful Bidwai – India;
• 2009-02-16: Prak Sokhany – Cambodia;
• 2006-06-10: Prema Gopalan – India;
• 2006-04-04: Probir Sikdar – Bangladesh;
• 2009-03-28: Pung Chhiv Kek Galabru – Cambodia;
• 2007-11-04: Qingrong Ma – China;
• 2007-11-02: Rachael Nyadak Paul – Sudan;
• 2005-12-09: Radha Bhatt – India;
• 2007-03-24: Radhika Coomaraswamy – Sri Lanka;
• 2008-04-30: Rafael C. Lopa – Philippines;
• 2008-09-13: Rafil A. Dhafir – Iraq and USA;
• 2008-02-12: Rafiza Begum – Bangladesh;
• 2008-10-28: Raheel Raza – Pakistan and Canada;
• 2007-01-10: Rahela Khatun – Bangladesh;
• 2008-09-25: Rahul Mahajan (the blogger) – USA;
• 2005-12-10: Raimunda Gomes da Silva – Brazil;
• 2006-12-01: Raisa Kadyrova – Kyrgyzstan;
• 2007-02-04: Rajni Kumar – India;
• 2009-01-20: Ram Puniyani – India;
• 2006-11-27: Ramesh Jaura – India and Germany;
• 2008-07-10: Rand Clifford – USA;
• 2008-04-29: Rani Bang – India;
• 2009-02-25: Raoul Schrott – Austria;
• 2008-04-13: Raoul Wallenberg – Sweden (1912 – 1947 ?);
• 2009-02-03: Raqiya Humeidan – Yemen;
• 2007-05-01: Rashida Bee – India;
• 2009-03-22: Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim – Indonesia;
• 2008-03-04: Raul Humberto Yzaguirre – USA;
• 2007-06-07: Ravi Kanbur – Ghana and England;
• 2005-09-09: Raya Dunayevskaya – Ukraine and USA (1910 – 1987)
• 2007-12-27: Raymond (Ray) McGovern – USA;
• 2005-10-18: Razia Bondrey Bhatti – Pakistan (x – 1996)
• 2008-02-15: Rebecca Adamson – USA;
• 2007-04-17: Rebecca Gomperts – Netherlands;
• 2008-07-25: Rebecca Johnson – England;
• 2007-10-23: Rebecca MacKinnon – USA;
• 2006-06-19: Reema Nanavaty – India;
• 2007-11-14: Regis Debray – France;
• 2008-09-09: Rein Müllerson – Estonia;
• 2008-11-15: Reinhard Erös – Germany;
• 2006-01-04: Rela Mazali – Israel;
• 2006-01-22: Remy Herrera – France;
• 2005-10-20: Riccardo Petrella – Italy and Belgium;
• 2008-04-06: Richard C. Cook – USA;
• 2007-03-05: Richard Douthwaite – Ireland;
• 2008-11-04: Richard Hayes Phillips – USA;
• 2008-11-06: Ricky L. Jones – USA;
• 2007-07-10: Richard Rodriguez – USA;
• 2005-11-21: Rikke Frank Jorgensen – Denmark;
• 2009-02-17: Rima E. Laibow, M.D. – USA;
• 2007-01-08: Rina Amiri – Afghanistan and USA;
• 2006-05-23: Rita Thapa – Nepal;
• 2008-01-11: Robert Bauval – Egypt and Belgium;
• 2005-11-17: Robert Fisk – England;
• 2008-04-03: Robert Louis Heilbroner – USA (1919 – 2005);
• 2005-10-29: Robert Menasse – Austria;
• 2007-12-30: Robert Reich – USA;
• 2007-04-30: Robert Springborg – England;
• 2008-10-24: Roberto Saviano – Italy;
• 2007-10-15: Robin M. Coupland – England;
• 2006-03-01: Rodolfo Stavenhagen – Mexico;
• 2007-12-04: Rodrigue Tremblay – Canada;
• 2008-09-14: Rodrigue Tremblay – Canada;
• 2007-12-09: Roger Burbach – USA;
• 2006-03-23: Roger Willemsen – Bosnia and Herzegovina;
• 2007-11-30: Rohini Hensman – Sri Lanka;
• 2008-02-12: Rokeya Kabir – Bangladesh;
• 2008-06-02: Rolene Miller – South Africa;
• 2007-06-10: Roma Pauline Guy – USA;
• 2008-12-30: Ron Kurtz - USA;
• 2007-08-22: Ronald Inglehart -USA;
• 2006-06-30: Ronald V. Dellums – USA;
• 2008-12-10: Rosa María Herrera de Hernandez – Venezuela and Mexico;
• 2005-10-25: Rosa Parks – USA;
• 2008-10-09: Rosalie Bertell – USA;
• 2006-07-08: Rosalina Tuyuc Velasquez – Guatemala;
• 2008-04-19: Rose Chiwambo (Chibambo) – Malawi;
• 2006-09-13: Rose Kabuye – Rwanda;
• 2006-10-28: Rose Marie Muraro – Brazil;
• 2008-10-13: Roselle Bailey – USA /Hawai;
• 2007-12-14: Rosemarie Jackowski – USA;
• 2006-06-04: Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira – Brazil;
• 2006-02-22: Rozlana Taukina – Kazakhstan;
• 2007-03-29: Rudo de Ruijter – Netherlands;
• 2008-05-13: Ruedi Luthy – Switzerland and Zimbabwe;
• 2009-03-07: Russ Baker – USA;
• 2008-09-18: Ruth Manorama – India;
• 2007-03-19: Ruth Sando Perry – Liberia;
• 2006-11-24: Ruth Weiss – Germany;
• 2006-03-05: Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold – Switzerland;
• 2005-12-03: Sabina Spielrein – Russia (1885 – 1942);
• 2009-03-30: Sabine A. Döring – Germany;
• 2006-12-07: Sabine Lichtenfels – Portugal;
• 2009-03-03: Sabriye Tenberken – Germany;
• 2008-11-22: Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti – England and USA;
• 2007-11-02: Saeeda Mohd Bedri Mohd Abu Hadia – Sudan;
• 2007-11-02: Safaa Elagib Adam – Sudan;
• 2005-10-31: Safia Hussaini – Nigeria;
• 2006-03-06: Saikho Namtchylak – Russia, Siberia;
• 2005-12-24: Sakena Lida Yacoobi – Afghanistan;
• 2006-04-06: Sakhibakhon Irgasheva – Uzbekistan;
• 2008-08-27: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury – Bangladesh;
• 2008-05-11: Salim Lamrani – France;
• 2006-07-19: Salima Hashmi – Pakistan;
• 2009-01-12: Salma Khadra Jayyusi – Palestine;
• 2008-08-13: Sam Akaki – Uganda;
• 2005-12-22: Samantha Power – USA;
• 2007-04-07: Sami Al-Arian – USA and Kuwait;
• 2007-11-02: Samia Mohemed Ibrahim – Sudan;
• 2007-05-27: Samir Amin – Egypt;
• 2007-05-06: Samir Kassir – Lebanon (1960 – 2005);
• 2006-10-13: Samir Makdisi – Lebanon;
• 2007-02-09: Samuel Bowles – USA;
• 2007-06-16: Sandhya Roy – Bangladesh;
• 2006-08-14: Sandra Jimenez Loza – Mexico;
• 2008-04-09: Sandra Nyaira – Zimbabwe;
• 2006-12-15: Sangeeta Mahajan – India;
• 2006-12-06: Sanjay Chaturvedi – India;
• 2009-01-03: Saskia Kouwenberg – Netherlands;
• 2008-06-20: Saskia Sassen – USA and Netherlands;
• 2008-12-25: Savitri MacCuish – Netherlands;
• 2008-06-26: Sayed Naqi – Afghanistan;
• 2006-01-28: Schafik Handal – El Salvador (1930 – 2006);
• 2006-09-02: Schuma Schumaher – Brazil;
• 2007-01-29: Scott Ritter – USA;
• 2008-06-30: Sebastian Chuwa – Tanzania.
• 2008-03-20: Sebastien Fath – France;
• 2006-11-20: Semjidmaa Damba – Mongolia;
• 2005-12-04: Serge Halimi – France;
• 2007-09-11: Severn Cullis-Suzuki – Canada;
• 2006-03-17: Sevim Arbana – Albania;
• 2008-04-20: Seyran Ates – Turkey;
• 2008-12-04: Shabana Azmi – India;
• 2008-05-09: Shabnam Hashmi – India;
• 2007-04-02: Shadi Sadr – Iran;
• 2007-02-01: Shalini Randeria – India;
• 2006-01-13: Shami Chakrabarti – India and England;
• 2007-06-24: Shana Chang – China;
• 2006-12-14: Shanta Devi – India;
• 2006-06-16: Shanti Christine Arulampalam – Sri Lanka;
• 2005-11-18: Shari Eppel – Zimbabwe;
• 2007-03-16: Sharla Musabih – United Arab Emirates;
• 2006-06-25: Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls – Fiji;
• 2007-03-01: Sharon Hutchinson – USA;
• 2006-03-27: Sheika Lubna Al Qasimi – United Arab Emirates;
• 2009-01-26: Shelley J. Anderson – Netherlands;
• 2008-02-02: Shereen Sazawar – Afghanistan;
• 2008-01-01: Sheridan Prasso – USA;
• 2005-11-24: Shigeru Ban – Japan;
• 2008-02-12: Shirin Banu – Bangladesh;
• 2008-01-13: Shirin Neshat – Iran and USA;
• 2008-03-22: Shuk Man Selina Sun China, Hong Kong SAR;
• 2008-04-04: Shuqin Zhang – China;
• 2009-03-27: Shyamala Natarajan – India;
• 2008-04-23: Sihai Long – China;
• 2007-11-02: Siham Daoud Anglo – Sudan;
• 2006-09-26: Sihem Bensedrine – Tunis;
• 2008-01-14: Siin-Do Song – Japan and Korea;
• 2006-01-17: Silja J.A. Talvi – USA;
• 2005-12-15: Silvia Vera Ocampo – Argentina;
• 2007-12-11: Simone Clara Kossianga – Central African Republic;
• 2008-08-04: Sinuan – Laos, Akha tribe;
• 2006-07-05: Sir Bill Morris – England;
• 2008-02-08: Sister Cecilia – Indonesia;
• 2006-12-05: Sister Dorothy Stang – Brazil and USA (1931-2005);
• 2008-10-21: Sister Emmanuelle – France and Belgium (1908 – 2008);
• 2007-09-26: Siv O’Neall – Sweden;
• 2006-05-02: Snjezana Mulic-Busatlija – Bosnia and Herzegovina;
• 2006-03-15: Sobhi Hadid – Syria and France;
• 2006-10-01: Solange Fernex – France (1934 – 2006);
• 2005-12-19: Somaly Mam – Cambodia;
• 2006-04-12: Sompop Jantraka – Thailand;
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he is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Influenced by Mahatma Gandhi’s Quit India exhortation as a youngster, Mrinal Gore (born 1928) chucked in a promising career in medicine to devote herself to organizing the poor and the disenfranchised. For more than half a century, she has been involved with a series of organizations and leading protests both on the streets and in the corridors of power, focusing on women’s rights, civil rights, communal harmony, and trade union activities. She was fortunate to have had extremely enlightened parents: her father was a professor of physics at Mumbai’s Elphinstone College, and her mother came from a family of intellectuals. Of her six other siblings, three went on to become doctors and two engineers … It is said: Mrinal Gore’s sacrifice of her medical career for lifelong social activism was one of a kind with postindependence idealism and the establishment of a democratic superstructure of governance. (1000peacewomen).

Known as a political reformer, Mrnal Gore was a member of the Bombay Municipal Corporation. As a politician, she constantly brought into focus the woes of the common woman, earning the admiration of the masses. For her vociferous protests against water shortages in the city she was called Mumbai’s ‘Paaniwali Bai’. She had won the election with the largest margin of votes ever in Maharashtra. (women in politics online).

A Socialist State leader, (she) was a Member of Parliament, Member of State Legislature and Mumbai Municipal Corporation, uninterruptedly from 1961 to 1990. A staunch supporter for Women’s empowerment and is in public life as a socialist since 1948. (Nagari Nivara Parishad).

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Mrinal Gore – India

She works for Swadhar (named on Gov.India, and on NIC.in ), and for the Keshav Gore Smarak Trust KGST (described on MIT.edu, USA, and on AIDprojects.org, India).

Oral History Recordings, Women In Progressive Movements, Mrinal’s short statement: click on ‘Hear the audio‘.

It was during a family vacation to the nearby town of Palghar that Mrinal came in contact with the Rashtriya Seva Dal RSD (named on UNIFICATION OF HINDUS), a voluntary organization connected with the Indian National Congress. At the time, India’s freedom struggle was at its height, and the atmosphere was charged by Mahatma Gandhi’s Quit India exhortation.

Mrinal had taken up medicine for her higher studies, and although a brilliant student, she decided to drop her academic career in favor of devoting herself to organizing the poor and the disenfranchised. She had passed the first MBBS examinations with flying colors, but in 1947, the year of Independence, Mrinal departed medical college, choosing to become a fulltimer with the RSD, organizing housewives for sociopolitical work.

She spent a year with the Congress, leaving in 1948 with a group of Socialist youngsters who decided to form the Socialist Party, which became a critical thorn in the Congress party’s flesh. The same year, Mrinal married Socialist leader Keshav “Bandhu” Gore. The two were from different castes and were breaking the prevalent caste taboo by marrying. The Gores lived and worked in Goregaon, a rural area that has now become part of suburban Mumbai.

In 1950, Mrinal joined the Goregaon Mahila Mandal * as its secretary. The Mahila Mandal worked for the uplift of women in the area; in 1951, the organization put in place the Family Planning Center under Mrinal’s guidance. She was a step ahead of the Indian government, which introduced its family planning programs only in 1952.

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She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Neidonuo Angami (born 1950), one of the founding members and former president of the Naga Mothers Association (NMA), has never known a peaceful life. She realized that the fierce fighting between the Naga underground army and the Indian security forces directly impacts the lives of mothers who lose their children to violence and resort to substance abuse in reaction to the conflict. So, she and other Naga mothers launched the Shed No More Blood campaign, which has proved to be a crucial link in the Naga peace process.

She says: “Starting with resolving the issues of conflict-driven drug addiction and alcoholism, the NMA has inserted itself into the state-Naga peace process, with women finally having a say”.

Watch this videos:

• Naga ngashan, 4.07 min, March 22, 2007;
• Tangkhul Naga Ngashan, 4.31 min, March 26, 2007;
• Hornbill Festival 2007 in Nagaland (India), 1.04 min, Dec. 4, 2007;
• Folk solo Rengma Naga by Khwenbu from Sendenyu village, 6.36 min, 20th Feb 2008;
• Rock scene hits Nagaland, 2.16 min, October 08, 2007;
• NAGALAND, 5.38 min, September 13, 2007.

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Neidonuo Angami – India

She works for the Naga Mothers Association NMA, (named: in the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, page 627; on Nagalim.nl/news; on India Together).

NMA dismayed over Tadubi incident, Vol. 4 Issue 11-12, August 22 – September 6, 2001.

Neidonuo Angami was born in a village in Kohima, Nagaland, on 1st October 1950, at a time when Nagaland was ravaged by fierce hostilities between the Naga underground army and Indian security forces. She spent her early childhood hiding out in the dense, precarious jungles. When she was six years old, her father, an interpreter with the state administration, was captured and killed.

Her mother did her best for Neidonuo and her four siblings under strenuous economic conditions. The conflict, and its personal backwash, seared all of them.

Neidonuo started formal education only at the age of eight, studying at Kohima’s Cambridge School (now the Mezhur Higher Secondary School). She then went on to Baptist English School and the Government High School, from where she matriculated in 1968. She was active in extracurricular activities, often leading her school’s contingent during interschool parades and National Cadet Corps activities.

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She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Wang Yongchen is a journalist at China’s Central People’s Radio Station and convener of Green Earth Volunteers (GEV). She realizes the strength of the media in environmental protection, using her professional expertise to promote environmental protection. A pioneer of radio programs on environmental concerns, such as “Classroom on Wednesday” and “Journalist Salon”, she opens platforms for public education and debate, and aims to change and raise public awareness on the environment, the relationship between humans and nature, and social responsibility in the protection of nature.

She says: “I am often regarded as a woman who is building a grand environmental-protection project. But I think that I am part of nature. And I am only doing what everyone should be doing”.

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Yongchen Wang – China

She works for the Green Earth Volunteers GEV (named as member of The Virtual Foundation.org).

Wang Yongchen, native of Anhui Province, was born in Beijing in 1954. She graduated from the Library Department of Beijing University and is now a journalist for China’s Central People’s Radio Station and convener of Green Earth Volunteers (GEV), a non-governmental organization on environmental protection. Over the past 16 years, she has been active in China’s environmental protection movement in the capacity of a journalist.

It all began in 1988 after Wang worked on the stories on the hunting of wild Yaks in the Qinghai-Tibetan highland and a bird-loving primary school children in Jiangsu Province. She was deeply shocked by how people brought about the destruction of nature in the former and was impressed by the love and passion for nature in the later. This has served as the motive and the driving force for Wang’s dedication in her 16-year cause for environmental protection. She recalled, “I was really touched. From then on, environmental protection is to go to nature, to get to know nature, and make friends with nature. Only then can we live in harmony with our neighbors – animals in nature.” The children gave the lie to Wang’s belief that only rich and free undertook environmental protection. The students loved birds very much and they were very poor. The sight of some wild animals being killed in Tibet also inspired her to focus on environmental protection.

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Linked with Sanlaap India, with Oxfam (India) Trust, New Delhi, and with Terre des Hommes, divers groupes indépendants, also with its India Programme.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

When a study on sexually abused children took Indrani Sinha (born 1950) to the brothel areas of Kolkata, the lives of the women there shook her to the core. From then on, she and Sanlaap (sanlaap means dialogue), the organization she set up, have been working to eliminate stigma, and to integrate women in prostitution and their children into mainstream society. While the setting up of safe homes and motivating government agencies have been significant victories, Indrani’s greatest triumph is the fulfilling lives that the women in and from Sanlaap’s shelter homes now lead.

She says: “When I started in 1989, I did not have any role models from whom I could learn. Therefore, I learnt from the women in red-light areas through listening to their needs”.

Drawing a parallel with another form of violence, the use of child labor, Indrani says, “Would we advocate that child labor be legalized just because it exists? A form of violence cannot be accepted merely because it is there and has been for centuries; the basis of its existence needs to be challenged”.

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Indrani Sinha – India

She works for Sanlaap.

Indrani Sinha was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in West Bengal on 15 March 1950, and grew up in Patna, Bihar. She completed her graduation in English literature from Kolkata’s Jadavpur University. Indrani’s life, as a young woman, was tough: when she was only 17, her father’s retirement meant that she had to manage both her work and studies, and shoulder the financial responsibilities at home.

She was married in 1973, but soon realized that she was in a dysfunctional marriage; nonetheless, she waited for their son to grow up before she left it. She married a friend who respects her work in 1985, and has two daughters now.

Although Indrani’s career began with teaching English, in 1973-76, in a well-known Hindi-medium school in Calcutta, she soon realized that her interest lay in the development sector.

In 1982, she joined Terre des Hommes (see the India Programme), “a network of ten national organizations working for the rights of children and to promote equitable development without racial, religious, political, cultural or gender-based discrimination” (see also on wikipedia), and then moved on to the Oxfam India Trust, where she worked for five years in women’s empowerment.

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She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “Peace is the environment of trust and confidence that people need in life”.

Together with the European Women’s Lobby, Equality Now, the Center for Strategic Initiatives of Women, and the Feminist Majority, V-Day served as one of the Co-conveners of the Afghan Women’s Summit held in Brussels in December 2001. The Summit provided a forum for Afghan women in the Diaspora from all areas of the world, including Pakistan, Iran, the Central Asian Republics, the United States, Canada and Europe and from different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds and also Afghan women from within Afghanistan. Afghan women leaders from around the world gathered to create a working dialogue on the role of women in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Hosted in Brussels, December 4-5 at the European Commission, the prime focus of the Summit was to introduce the voices of Afghan women into the current international political discourse with officials from the European Union, United Nations, and women’s rights activists from around the world, including the three women delegates to the concurrent Bonn meeting: Seddighe Balkhi, leader of the Afghan Women’s Political and Cultural Activities Center in Iran, Northern Alliance representative Amina Afzali, an Iran-based activist, and Sima Wali, president and CEO of Refugee Women in Development and coordinator for the Afghan Women’s Summit. (full text).

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Amina Afzali Safi – Afghanistan

Amina Safi Afzali was born in Herat where she completed her early education. She subsequently attended the Kabul University where she obtained a BSc from the Faculty of Sciences.

For 23 years, she has been advocating women and human rights. She has also taught at the Faculty of Science, Kabul University. After the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, Afzali fled to Iran. Her husband, who was part of the resistance movement, was killed by the Russians.

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• 2007-10-01: Marie Lisette Talate – Mauritius;
• 2007-10-02: José Gabriel Condorcanqui alias Túpac Amaru II – Peru (1742 – 1781);
• 2007-10-03: Florence Aubenas – Belgium;
• 2007-10-04: Madeeha Gauhar – Pakistan;
• 2007-10-05: Maggiorina Balbuena – Paraguay;
• 2007-10-06: Walter Kempowski – Germany (1929 – 2007);
• 2007-10-07: Elmar Altvater – Germany;
• 2007-10-08: Aung Myo Min – Burma (in Thailand);
• 2007-10-09: Parshuram Rai – Nepal;
• 2007-10-10: Maria Inês Gomes Rodrigues Fontinha – Portugal;
• 2007-10-11: Min Sun – China;
• 2007-10-12: Mandira Sharma – Nepal;
• 2007-10-13: Sunila Abeysekera – Sri Lanka;
• 2007-10-14: Elisabeth Reusse-Decrey – Switzerland;
• 2007-10-15: Robin M. Coupland – England;
• 2007-10-16: Hollman Felipe Morris – Colombia
• 2007-10-17: Kurt Julius Goldstein – Germany (1914 – 2007);
• 2007-10-18: Nosandla Malindi – South Africa;
• 2007-10-19: María Esther Ruiz Ortega – Honduras;
• 2007-10-20: U Win Tin – Burma;
• 2007-10-21: Irom Sharmila Chanu – India;
• 2007-10-22: María Luisa Navarro Garrido – Venezuela;
• 2007-10-23: Rebecca MacKinnon – USA;
• 2007-10-24: Jamal Saadeddine Ibrahim – Egypt;
• 2007-10-25: Ashanti Alston Omowali – USA;
• 2007-10-26: Ermira Mehmeti – Macedonia;
• 2007-10-27: Helen John – England;
• 2007-10-28: James Bovard – USA;
• 2007-10-29: Vijay Prashad – India & USA;
• 2007-10-30: Mina Ahadi – Iran;
• 2007-10-31: Spasenija Moro – Croatia.

Linked with The Nuke Deal Is Dead.

He says: “The clash of civilization is a tired approach to the contradictions that we face, as is Benjamin Barber’s Jihad vs. McWorld (Tariq Ali’s book from Verso The Clash of Fundamentalisms will take the piss out of this approach, I’m sure). My own sense, and I’ve actually worked this out in a book for Leftword called War Against the Planet (released in Calcutta in the first week of Feb. 2002) is that we are in a condition of McJihad, where the forces of capitalist globalization and those of retro-Islam and retro-Hinduism and retro-Christianity seem to emerge from the very same flat approach to our current political, economic and social crises. Whereas the fat cats and the running dogs sap the ability of people to transform their rights into reality, the forces of McJihad offer tired eschatological visions of a heavenly future (the American Dream, Paradise) that is without a program for actual social change. Which brings us to polyculturalism: Firstly, we need to get out of the idea that the “West” is the fount of all that is good in the world, that it is the place from which all reason and justice comes. Secondly, we need to see that the world as formed by interconnections between that zone known as the “West” and the vast Rest, and that the cultures that we see in motion around us are dynamically generated by the various and complex interactions, which later are denied in bad faith in the service of nationalism. So, these two facets of polyculturalism may, I think, help us think out of the rhetoric of Good and Evil, Us and Them, etc. … (full interview text).

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Vijay Prashad – USA

Vijay Prashad is Professor and Director of International Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, Ct. His most recent books are The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (New Press, November 2006) and (with Teo Ballve) Dispatches from Latin America: Experiments Against Neoliberalism (South End Press, October 2006). He is the author of ten other books, including two chosen by the Village Voice as books of the year (Karma of Brown Folk, 2000; Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting, 2001). He is on the board of the Center for Third World Organizing, United For a Fair Economy, and the National Priorities Project. He writes a monthly column for Frontline, India, and occasionally for Counterpunch.
See whole text here.

Read him in books and articles: his newest book The Darker Nations, A People’s History of the Third World (New Press People’s History), by Vijay Prashad (Author), Howard Zinn (Series Editor); ; A Perilous Way to Socialism, Dec. 16/17, 2006; Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting, Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity, by Vijay Prashad, Beacon Press, November 2001, 256 pages; The Karma of Brown Folk, by Vijay Prashad, University of Minnesota Press, 248 pages; Cindy Sheehan’s Tragedy is Real, The Rosa Parks of the Anti-War Movement; – see also his publications on amazon; on ZNet Commentaries; on Google book-search; on Googles blog-search; on Google Scholar-search.

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Linked with Institute for Anarchist Studies IAS.

Ashanti Alston Omowali is an anarchist activist, speaker, and writer, and former member of the Black Panther Party. Even though the party no longer exists, Alston sometimes refers to himself as a Black Panther, and sometimes as “the @narchist Panther”, a term he coined in his popular @narchist Panther Zine series. He was also member of the Black Liberation Army, and spent more than a decade in prison after government forces captured him and the official court system convicted him of armed robbery.

Alston, like most anarchists, disputes the moral issues of property and terms his activity in the BLA “bank expropriation”. Alston is the former northeast coordinator for Critical Resistance, a current co-chair of the National Jericho Movement (to free U.S. political prisoners), a member of pro-Zapatista people-of-color U.S.-based Estación Libre, and is on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies … (full text).

See his personal website ‘@narchist Panther‘.

He says: “Either you respect people’s capacities to think for themselves, to govern themselves, to creatively devise their own best ways to make decisions, to be accountable, to relate, problem-solve, break-down isolation and commune in a thousand different ways … OR: you dis-respect them. You dis-respect ALL of us” (on his Homepage).

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Ashanti Alston Omowali – USA

Listen to his video of 2004, 2.03 min. (strange, if you search videos on YouTube or Google with his name, the search-result shows ‘no video found’ !?!).

He says also: “Many classical anarchists regarded anarchism as a body of elemental truths that merely needed to be revealed to the world and believed, people would become anarchists once exposed to the irresistible logic of the idea. This is one of the reasons they tended to be didactic.

Fortunately the lived practice of the anarchist movement is much richer than that. Few ‘convert’ in such a way: it is much more common for people to embrace anarchism slowly, as they discover that it is relevant to their lived experience and amenable to their own insights and concerns.

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Linked with Women’s Information Network, Russia, and with Toita Yunusova – Russian Federation, and with Zarema Omarova – Russian Federation.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “This is the will of God. He has granted me life so that I can help the least privileged victims of war. I have no right to betray them. They are waiting for me”.

Download: THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS, 31/03/2005, 285 pdf-pages.

Fatima Gazieva – Russian Federation

She works for Ekho Voiny / Echo of War (named on Prague Watchdog, on Chechnya Weekly, on FIIA Report 2003, on this fidh report on chechnya) and for Soyuz Zhenshchin Severnogo Kavkaza (Union of Women of the Northern Caucasus, as part of the Women’s Information Network).

Fatima Gazieva was born 1960 in Kazakhstan. At the beginning of the 1990s, she returned to her historical motherland, Checheno-Ingushetia. Since 1995, Fatima has been taking part in the anti-war movement. Being an active member of the human rights organizations Soyuz Zhenshchin Severnogo Kavkaza (Union of Women of the Northern Caucasus) and Ekho Voiny (Echo of War), she strives to help the people of Chechnya who have become victims of the atrocities of the bloody Russian-Chechen wars. Her activities are getting more and more dangerous under the pressure of the Russian authorities.The war broke out in Chechnya in November 1994. Endless chains of roaring tanks moved along the roads, airplanes bombed innocent civilians in the streets. The tragedy of her people led Fatima Gazieva to the antiwar movement.

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• 2007-07-01: Alicia Amalia Rodríguez Illescas – Guatemala;
• 2007-07-02: Gertrude Ibengwe Mongella – Tanzania;
• 2007-07-03: Katsuko Nomura – Japan;
• 2007-07-04: Cissé Hadja Mariama Sow – Guinea;
• 2007-07-05: Zarema Omarova – Russian Federation;
• 2007-07-06: Asha-Rose Migiro – Tanzania;
• 2007-07-07: Nimalka Fernando – Sri Lanka;
• 2007-07-08: Thomas Stocker – Switzerland;
• 2007-07-09: Xiaoxia Zhu – China;
• 2007-07-09: Jiuhua Wu – China;
• 2007-07-09: Jianhua Wang – China;
• 2007-07-10: Richard Rodriguez – USA;
• 2007-07-11: Lester Brown – USA;
• 2007-07-12: Chalmers Johnson – USA;
• 2007-07-13: Toita Yunusova – Russian Federation;
• 2007-07-14: Stephen A. Marglin – USA;
• 2007-07-15: Itsmania Erohyna Pineda Platero – Honduras;
• 2007-07-16: Byubyusara Ryskulova – Kyrgyzstan;
• 2007-07-17: Bahia Hariri (Bahiyya Hariri) – Lebanon;
• 2007-07-18: Guangren Zhou – China;
• 2007-07-19: Gulnara Derbisheva – Kyrgyzstan;
• 2007-07-20: Daofu Chen – China;
• 2007-07-21: Marcel Barang – France & Thailand;
• 2007-07-22: Jonathon Espie Porritt – England;
• 2007-07-23: Latifabano Mohammad Yusuf Getali – India;
• 2007-07-24: Florentine Bodo Ramambasoa – Madagascar;
• 2007-07-25: Irene Chaluluka – Malawi;
• 2007-07-26: Sr. Paola Battagliola – Italy;
• 2007-07-27: Mary Brownell – Liberia;
• 2007-07-28: Muhammad Anwar Dar – Pakistan;
• 2007-07-29: Ernest Callenbach – USA;
• 2007-07-30: Yue Chen – China;
• 2007-07-31: Jürgen Cain Külbel – Germany.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

The Working Committee on Women and Children.
She says: “My goal is to share happiness and woe with the common people and take their business as my own business”.

Xiaoxia Zhu – China

She works for the Working Committee on Women and Children, and for the Communist Party of China CPC, Xihua County Committee.

Zhu Xiaoxia has introduced scientific marital and family planning ideas into her work for women and children, and has tried to convince families that happiness does not only lie in having male children. She has appealed to the community to pay attention to the vulnerable sectors of the population and has called on local civil servants to help poor schoolchildren and Aids orphans by initiating various programs for them.

Zhu Xiaoxia was born at the end of the 1950s. She was sent to the rural areas as an educated rusticated youth during the Cultural Revolution. She became a worker after she returned to the city. Eager for knowledge she kept learning while she worked and obtained a master’s degree.

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Linked with Promotion of Rural Initiatives and Development Enterprises Tanzania PRIDE, and with HONOR YOUR PROMISE CRY THE ONDOA UMASKINI CAMPAIGN.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro (born July 9, 1956 in Songea, Ruvuma Region, Tanzania) is a Tanzanian lawyer and politician. On January 5, 2007, she was named as the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. She was formally appointed and assumed office on February 5, 2007. She is married to Cleophas Migiro, and the couple has two daughters. (full text, and her profile).

Read: Somali peace, President Kibaki appeals to the International community to assist.

She says: “The approach to population and development should be interdisciplinary. Learn people’s priorities and become their partners in development. That approach will promote a peaceful and hopeful future”. (1000PeaceWomen).

Read: Migiro urges comprehensive approach to tackle ‘feminization of AIDS’.

She says also: “In all I do I will strive to bring about a more integrated United Nations, which delivers as one, I am also fully committed to supporting the priorities set by the Secretary-General, strengthening the work of the United Nations, enhancing trust between member states and the Secretariat, and bolstering the working culture of the Organization to ensure it is equipped to meet the mandates our membership has given us” … and: “I look forward to the task ahead with excitement and enthusiasm, but equally with profound humility, and above all I look forward to working with the Secretary-General to implement his vision”. (full text).

Read: Kenya: UN Official Calls for Unity in Achieving Development.

Asha-Rose Migiro – Tanzania

She works for the Family Planning Association of Tanzania UMATI (named on UN.org), for the Tanzania Association of Non-Governmental Organisations TANGO, and for the Promotion of Rural Initiatives and Development Enterprises Tanzania PRIDE.

Read: Political unity solution to Somali crisis: UN.

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• 2007-06-02: Lazzat Ishmukhamedova – Kazakhstan;
• 2007-06-03: Jeanne Devos – Belgium;
• 2007-06-04: Alex Callinicos – England;
• 2007-06-05: Karla Schefter – Germany;
• 2007-06-06: Asha Lata Baidya, or Ashalata Boidda – Bangladesh;
• 2007-06-07: Ravi Kanbur – Ghana & England;
• 2007-06-08: Erni Friholt – Sweden;
• 2007-06-09: Negoita Cornelia – Romania;
• 2007-06-10: Roma Pauline Guy – USA;
• 2007-06-11: Lidy Nacpil – Philippines;
• 2007-06-12: John D. Skrentny – USA;
• 2007-06-13: Miloon Kothari – India;
• 2007-06-14: Hazel Magdalene King – Barbados;
• 2007-06-15: Chantal Marie Rachelle Ouédraogo – Burkina Faso;
• 2007-06-16: Sandhya Roy – Bangladesh;
• 2007-06-17: Grace Aboh Dotou – Benin;
• 2007-06-18: Jeannine Nahigombeye – Burundi;
• 2007-06-19: Marie Béatrice Kenfack Tolevi – Cameroon;
• 2007-06-20: Elizabeth Ann Gray – Hong Kong SAR;
• 2007-06-21: Hans A. Pestalozzi – Switzerland (1929 – 14.7.2004);
• 2007-06-22: Béatrice Félicité Bobo – Central African Republic;
• 2007-06-23: Bryant G. Garth – USA;
• 2007-06-24: Xuebo Li – China;
• 2007-06-24: Jiying Xu – China;
• 2007-06-24: Shana Chang – China;
• 2007-06-25: Francis X. D’Sa – India;
• 2007-06-26: Yukika Sohma – Japan;
• 2007-06-27: Fanny Sonia Pollarolo Villa – Chile;
• 2007-06-28: María Julia Hernández Chavarría – El Salvador (1939 – 2007);
• 2007-06-29: Tsisana Rapava – Georgia;
• 2007-06-30: Kate Adoo Adeku – Ghana.

Linked with the Sunflower Association SMS.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “I do not waste time, ever. I did not waste even an hour in my whole student life for any boyfriend. I did not even get married. I believe in hard work and sacrifice”.

And she says: “Hello. I am Asha Lata. I am thrilled that you are reading this. While we are quietly working in the poor villages, we are hidden away from the people in the big cities of Bangladesh and the world. Sometimes as we battle to overcome oppression and poverty we feel that nobody cares. Your visit to our website gives us all encouragement. We realise that we are not alone in our desire to live in a better world with equality for all … ” (full text).

Asha Lata Baidya, or Ashalata Boidda – Bangladesh

She works for ‘Surjamukhi Sangstha SMS’, short for ‘Sunflower Association SMS‘.

Asha Lata Baidya, or Ashalata Boidda, is one of Bangladesh’s best-known freedom-fighters. She joined the freedom struggle of 1971 against Pakistan when she was only 15 years old and went on to lead the women’s guerrilla corps. After she completed her studies – suspended until her country won independence – she set up the Surjamukhi Sangstha SMS. SMS has been working on issues ranging from setting up cooperatives and helping with loans to women’s empowerment, education, and environmental issues. More than 200,000 families have benefited from Asha Lata’s 34 years of tireless activism.

She is the eldest of three sisters, was born in Latenga village, Kotalipara thana in Bangladesh on February 12, 1956. Her father, Haripada Boidda, was a schoolteacher, her mother, Sharalamoyee, a homemaker.

It was in school that Ashalata became involved in the political struggle in the then East Pakistan. The Pakistani genocide against Bangladesh was launched on March 25, 1971. A month later, a group of freedom-fighters visited the Boidda house and asked whether one member from the family would join the freedom struggle. “My father told them that he had no son”, she recalls. “His daughter, meaning me, would join them. I was very excited and left home with the group to take part in the liberation war”. Thus, all of 15-years-old, Ashalata joined Bangladesh’s fight for independence.

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Linked with Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan KMVS.

She is She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “I am getting old but I shall continue to provide my services to all who ask for them, as long as my health permits. I am happy and satisfied, but I am concerned about others around me”.

Without formal education and facing great odds, Parmaben has succeeded in her mission to bring healthcare to Kutchi women … HER earlobes hang almost touching her neck. Thick, white bangles cover her forearms; her richly woven kanjaria and audni speak of her desert-home. She has never had any formal education, and has only recently learned to write her name. (full text).

Parmaben Sava – India

She works for Pachcham (or Kutch) Mahila Vikas Sangathan PMVS (KMVS).

Parmaben Sava is a traditional birth attendant, a midwife who became a leader within her community by educating women on reproductive health issues and rights. A Dalit by birth, she has concentrated her energies and efforts in the Kutch area around the Indian border with Pakistan, changing the lives of the women she has interacted with, and of the generations she has helped bring into the world.

Parmaben was born in Juna (in the Pachcham block), one of five children. Her childhood was very similar to those around her: no education in anything but housework, and marriage at the age of 16. In fact, it was only after she started working with the Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS) in the late 1980s that she learnt to sign her name.

By that time, though, Parmaben had given birth to four daughters (moving to Dhrobana after marrying), and realized the difficulties a pregnant woman faces, and the pathetic birthing situations.

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Linked with Upendo Village NFP.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “I believe every single life is worth living. If we can help even one out of the two million, then I think for me that will be a great achievement”.

• Photos Documenting the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Africa.
• Photos Upendo Children’s Home.

Google Videos:

• Hamilton Masakadza speaks out on HIV/AIDS.
• While Africa sleeps tonight.
• HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe.
• ORPHANS OF MATHARE trailer.
• Info Video with Jars of Clay.
• Red Rose “Thank You Mama” and “AIDS” Poems.

Florence Muia – Kenya

She works for the Upendo Village NFP.

Sister Florence Muia, 45 years old, is the fifth of nine children. She was born and bred in Machakos District, Eastern Kenya, and has been an Assumption Sister of Nairobi ASN for 28 years. Sister Florence ministers mainly to women and children affected by HIV/Aids at Upendo Village in Naivasha, Kenya.

As a visionary, she dreamed of a safe haven for women and children affected by the disease. Upendo, the Kiswahili word for love, is such a sanctuary. She devotes her energy, commitment and skills to the success of this ecumenical project. She directs the outreach programs of Upendo Village and works on securing funding and resources in Kenya.

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Linked with (added Sept. 09, 2007) A re-compilation of texts and blogs for indigenous peoples.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “Everything can be achieved, bit by bit, little by little”.

She says also: “I want peace, not war and that women should not suffer violence. That is my fight as an indigenous woman for all of us. Already as a girl these thoughts were in my mind. But at that time they were just dreams. I think that the world is big and that we have to fight for everyone”.

And she says: “It is called el Bhote, with only a few hills and a few trees. Previously we had more. We have reforested a bit. It is very dry; we have no wells for irrigation. There is potable water but sometimes it does not function for eight up to fifteen days. I have learned during my training that where there are trees there is also rain. My community is very hot and very cold. There are times that are very, very cold and times that are very, very hot. My village is one of extreme temperatures. We sow maize, beans, pumpkins, broad beans, but without water you cannot irrigate. At home I wake up to make tortillas, to wash and to take care of my little animals. I am with them for a while and then I look for something to eat. When I go away I leave everything in the care of my children. Nothing stops me”.

Macedonia (Doña Mace) Blas – Mexico

She works for Fot’zi Ñañhu A.C.

Macedonia Blas is a Ñañhú (Mexican indigenous ethnic group) woman whose first child died when she was only 18 years old. She did not know how to take care of a little baby and, in her community, there were no doctors and there was no money. Later on, she had 11 more children.

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Linked with the Mahila Samakhya Programme, and with the Educational Resource Unit ERU.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

They say about her: “A single tribal woman day laborer stood up to usurious landowners, and then went on to change the developmental complexion of an entire village”.

Duiji – India

She learned by the connection with the Mahila Samakhya Programme.

Duiji (born 1942) has single-handedly changed the face of an entire village. She mobilized her community against caste-based oppression and injustice. Her efforts have led to a drastic reduction in atrocities against the Kol community. Caste-based sexual violence is practically nonexistent in her village now, and the tribals are no longer afraid of approaching the police and courts for redress. The literacy rates have shot up and the women participate more actively in community affairs.

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Linked with .

See also the WSF World Social Forum 2007, Kenya.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “In war everybody is a victim. For one to reconcile communities, one needs to rise from being a wounded victim to a wounded healer. I am a wounded healer”. And: “I don’t want my children to suffer the way I saw others suffering”.

She says also: “You wouldn’t think that, for example, Indonesia and Kenya have so much in common. Do you think that people who are refugees or maybe practitioners, if they heard stories from other communities that have begun to process and heal, it would help them to process and heal? It is interesting how healing stories themselves are, no?”.

And she says: “I have committed my life to peace building. To reconcile communities, one needs to rise from being a wounded victim to a wounded healer. I am a wounded healer”.

Tecla Wanjala – Kenja

She works for the Japan International Cooperation Agency JICA, for the Peace and Development Network of the NGO Council PeaceNet, and for the Coalition for Peace in Africa COPA.

Tecla Wanjala, a Kenyan 43-year-old mother of four, has dedicated her work to peace building. The trained social worker holds a master’s degree in conflict resolution. She started working with refugees in 1991 and later with internally displaced persons in her home district in Western Kenya. She initiated reconciliation meetings between opposing ethnic groups. Today, she works on peace building and post-conflict reconstruction from community to national level.

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Linked with The Club of Budapest, with Consciousness In The Cosmos, Perspective of Mind, with Planet Life Academy, and with New Concepts of Matter, Life and Mind.

Ervin Laszlo is a leading systems theorist and is the Founder and President of the Club of Budapest. He is also the Director of the General Evolution Research Group and Science Director of the International Peace University of Berlin. He talks about his book “You Can Change the World” – published by Positive News. He talks also about how a more peaceful and sustainable world is possible through individual action and how the book might serve as a guide. Quoting Mikhail Gorbachev, who contributed an introduction to the book, he suggests it is up to each one of us to make a difference. Once we decide to live in a world that is worth passing on to our children, “then even the politicians will come around. Listen on his 4 minutes speach, recorded in August 2003, by clicken on Big-Picture, and there on the play button).

He says: ”You Can Change the World”.

He says also: “(To) center attention on the evolution of human values and consciousness as the crucial factors in changing course – from a race toward degradation, polarization, and disaster to a rethinking of values and priorities so as to navigate today’s transformation in the direction of humanism, ethics, and global sustainability” (see on wikipedia).

Ervin Laszlo – Hungary

Read: Subtle Connections.

Ervin Laszlo is the author or editor of sixty-nine books translated into as many as nineteen languages, and has over four hundred articles and research papers and six volumes of piano recordings to his credit. He serves as editor of the monthly World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution and of its associated General Evolution Studies book series.

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• 2006-10-01: Solange Fernex – France (1934 – 2006);
• 2006-10-02: Isabelle Werenfels – Germany;
• 2006-10-03: Bradford Dillman – USA;
• 2006-10-04: Elmi Asha Hagi Amin – Somalia;
• 2006-10-05: Paw Lu Lu – Burma;
• 2006-10-06: Joy DeGruy-Leary – USA;
• 2006-10-07: Elsie Monge – Ecuador;
• 2006-10-08: Mireia Uranga Arakistain – Spain;
• 2006-10-09: Anna Politkovskaya – Russian Federation;
• 2006-10-10: Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life;
• 2006-10-10: Margaret Ntuti AKWALU – Kenya;
• 2006-10-10: Martin Ennals – England (1927-1991);
• 2006-10-11: Amin Maalouf – Lebanon & France;
• 2006-10-12: Dianmin Wang – China;
• 2006-10-12: Nick (Nicholas) Turse – USA;
• 2006-10-13: Mama Margaretha SAKO – Indonesia;
• 2006-10-13: Samir Makdisi – Lebanon;
• 2006-10-14: Lan Hsiang Hsu – Taiwan;
• 2006-10-14: Arnold Tsunga – Zimbabwe;
• 2006-10-15: Katajun Amirpur – Germany & Iran;
• 2006-10-16: Gabriel Kolko – USA;
• 2006-10-17: Anabell Guerrero – Venezuela & France;
• 2006-10-18: Doreen Spence – Canada;
• 2006-10-19: Gauriben RaysinghbHai KOLI – India;
• 2006-10-20: Ngun Fung Liu – Hong Kong SAR;
• 2006-10-21: Lyudmila Alekseeva – Russian Federation;
• 2006-10-22: Vimukthi Jayasundara – Sri Lanka;
• 2006-10-23: Pierre Salama – France;
• 2006-10-24: Thavrin THONG – Cambodia;
• 2006-10-24: Boua Chanthou – Cambodia;
• 2006-10-25: Fawzia Adam – Somalia;
• 2006-10-26: Ying Ning – China;
• 2006-10-27: Marshall B. Rosenberg – Switzerland & USA;
• 2006-10-28: Rose Marie Muraro – Brazil;
• 2006-10-29: Fiame Naomi Mataafa – Samoa;
• 2006-10-30: Lori Wallach – USA;
• 2006-10-30: Beatriz Benzano Seré – Uruguay;
• 2006-10-31: Wally N’Dow – Gambia.

Linked with renewal.

She says: “We want to move to a country that treats us like human beings, where we can live in freedom … Ask anyone, we can’t send our children to school. The one job we (women) are allowed to do here is be a cleaner”.

And: “The Egyptian government will never help. The U.N. just stood by. If there’s no solution we will all have to just kill ourselves. This is the final solution, so that world knows it’s impossible to live like this”.

Fawzia Adam – Somalia (Somaliland *)

She works with RAAD.uk

Born in 1962 to an upper middle class family in the Galgaduud region of Somalia, Ms Asha Hagi Elmi Amin had more opportunities than many of her fellow countrywomen. She did not let them pass her by unused. In 1986 she completed an Economics degree at the Somalia National University (SNU), and by 1991 she had a Masters in Management and Organisational Development and a Masters in Business Administration from the United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Linked with human rights first, with Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ZCTU, and with Appearance of ZCTU human rights defenders in Harare Court. And also with Akbar Ganji – Iran.

He is the Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Humn Rights, and a radio commentator, and a laureat 2006 for the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, which he received on october 11, 2006, in Geneva, by Louise Arbor, UN High Commissioner for Humans Rights, given by the Martin Ennals Foundation during a ceremony at the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices in Geneva (Switzerland), within framework of the International North South Media Festival. (See on zlhr.org.zw/).

Arnold Tsunga – Zimbabwe

In December 2005, Zimbabwean police raided the Voice of the People office and confiscated equipment and documents in an attempt to put the station out of business. Under Zimbabwe’s repressive Broadcasting Services Act, six trustees of the station have been charged with broadcasting without a license. If convicted, they could face two years in prison. Among the trustees arrested was Arnold Tsunga, who is also chairman of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association, or ZimRights.

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by the Women’s World Summit Foundation WWSF.

Nomination Guidelines: Awarded since 1994 by the Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF) – an international NGO for the empowerment of women and children – the Prize ($500 each) annually honors women and women’s groups exhibiting exceptional creativity, courage and commitment in improving the quality of life in rural communities. The Prize aims to draw international attention to the laureates’ contributions to sustainable development, household food security and peace, thus generating more recognition and support for their projects. While rural women are vital in providing examples of sound practice in rural communities, they still do not have to full access tools needed for development, such as education, credit, land rights and participation in decision-making. By highlighting creative development models, innovations and experiences enhancing the quality of life in rural areas, WWSF hopes to participate in addressing the eradication of extreme poverty and help arrest the drift to urban areas.

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Linked with Gender as a Tool in Building Peace, with Somalia – profiles, facts and reports; with Save Somali Women and Children SSWC, with Women defending Peace Conference, and with Women Peacemakers Program WWP.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She is a Visiting Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Member of Transitional Parliament of Somalia, Founder of Save Somali Women and Children SSWC, and Chairperson of The Sixth Clan.

Conference: “The Experience of Somali Women in Peace Building and Political Participation Amid Conflicts”, with Hon. Mde. Asha Hagi Elmi Amin, Sunday, October 8, 2:00-4:00 p.m., at the Fluno Center for Executive Education, 601 University Ave., Madison WI 53715 (USA). Come for an Intimate Sunday Afternoon Gathering for Coffee and Conversation. Details on speakers, agenda and registration for the Women’s Executive Leadership Summit are available by calling Mary Corbett at (608) 441-7330. (See on Tempo International).
She says: “Have one voice, and one interest as women”.

Elmi Asha Hagi Amin – Somalia

She works for ‘Save the Somali Women and Children’ SSWC.

Women’s summit features Somali peace-builder: The Hon. Mde. Asha Hagi Elmi Amin, a member of Somalia’s transitional parliament, founder of Save Somali Women and Children and chair of the Sixth Clan, will be a featured speaker at the Women’s Executive Leadership Summit on Thursday, Oct. 5, at the Fluno Center for Executive Education, 601 University Ave., Madison. Elmi, a 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will speak about her relentless work to empower women and advance their political participation in the Somali peace process.

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• 2006-09-01: Yuet Lin Yim – Hong Kong;
• 2006-09-02: Schuma Schumaher – Brazil;
• 2006-09-03: Devaki Jain – India;
• 2006-09-04: Michael W. Hodges – USA;
• 2006-09-05: James J. Puplava – USA;
• 2006-09-06: Bassam Tibi – Syria;
• 2006-09-07: Massimo Trombin – Luxembourg;
• 2006-09-08: Sunita Narain – India;
• 2006-09-09: Svetlana Gannushkina – Russian Federation;
• 2006-09-10: Guirong Tian – China;
• 2006-09-11: Thierry Fagart – Haiti & France;
• 2006-09-12: Stanford G. Mukasa – Zimbabwe;
• 2006-09-13: Rose Kabuye – Rwanda;
• 2006-09-14: Dylan Avery – USA;
• 2006-09-15: Palwasha Hassan – Afghanistan;
• 2006-09-16: Hildegard Goss-Mayr – Austria;
• 2006-09-17: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel – Brazil;
• 2006-09-18: María Cleofé Sumire López – Peru;
• 2006-09-19: Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka – Poland;
• 2006-09-20: Kongosi Onia Mussanzi – Dem. Republic of the Congo;
• 2006-09-21: Henny Yudea – Indonesia;
• 2006-09-22: Millicent Obaso – Kenya;
• 2006-09-23: Nils Daulaire – USA;
• 2006-09-24: Hedwig Vinyou – Cameroon;
• 2006-09-25: Gabriela Ngirmang – Palau;
• 2006-09-26: Sihem Bensedrine – Tunis;
• 2006-09-27: Vanida S. Thephsouvanh – Laos;
• 2006-09-28: Aida Touma-Suliman – Israel;
• 2006-09-29: Theodor Rathgeber – Germany;
• 2006-09-30: Thierry Falise – Belgium & Thailand.

Linked with The Afghan Womens Network, and with Canadian women for women in Afghanistan CW4WAfghan.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “I know that securing women’s rights in Afghanistan will be a long process. But I am confident that with diligent collaborative efforts of dedicated men and women we can overcome all challenges.”.

Palwasha Hassan – Afghanistan

She works for the Afghan Women’s Education Center (AWEC), for the Afghan Women’s Network (AWN), and for the UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan’s Gender Network (UNAMAGN).

Palwasha Hassan, born in 1969 in Kabul, Afghanistan, obtained a BSc in the Science Program from a government-run college in Islamabad, Pakistan. She is the founder of the Afghan Women’s Education Center, a well-established Afghan women’s organization. She is also a co-founder of the Afghan Women’s Network.

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