Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. Considered to be one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Paine authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and was a primary source of inspiration for the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from […]
Francisco ‘Pancho’ Ramos Stierle is a Mexican-born full-time community activist and humanitarian. Known for his easy smile and kind heart, Pancho’s mission is “to live in radical joyous shared servanthood to unify humanity.” He became a known figure of the Occupy movement after being arrested* while meditating during the dismantling of the Occupy Oakland Camp […]
Padma Shri Jadav Payeng is an Indian (Mishing tribe) environmental activist, who over the course of several decades planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra – single-handedly transforming the once-barren piece of land into a lush forest reserve. The forest, called Molai Forest, now encompasses an area of about 1,360 acres […]
Peace Artist (born Neal Yasami) is an American artist, gymnastics coach, musician, humanitarian, and peace activist. After years of seeking meaning in his own life – after years of wondering what it was that he could do to make the world a more peaceful place, Peace (as he is often called) decided to give up […]
Peace Pilgrim was a woman who walked thousands of miles for Peace, penniless and home-free. And she did so FOR 28 YEARS (from 1953 to 1981) — sleeping only where offered shelter and eating only when offered food; always gently sharing the message of radical Kindness; of forgiving our enemies, of caring for strangers, of […]
John Richard Pilger is an Australian journalist (now based in the United Kingdom, where he won Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award in both 1967 and 1978) and documentary film maker who has long been a strong critic American, Australian and British foreign policies; all of which he (quite correctly) considers to be driven primarily […]
Born in December of 1963, Brad Pitt is an outstanding American actor — starring in, among other films, “A River Runs Through It”, “Legends of the Fall”, “Seven”, “12 Monkeys”, “Seven Years in Tibet”, “Fight Club”, “Spy Game”, “Babel”, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, “Moneyball”, and “The Tree of Life”. He is also an […]
Raised in East Moine, Illinois — with the Mississippi River practically in his backyard, Chad Pregracke has made it his life’s work to clean up that and many other great American waterways. As a teenager, Chad worked as a commercial diver, and as he did so, he began to notice the heaps of debris in […]
Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert) is an American spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now. While he is perhaps best known for his personal and professional associations with Timothy Leary in the early 1960s and for his travels to India thereafter, it is his gentle insight into the human condition […]
Charles Robert Redford Jr. is an American actor, director, producer, environmentalist, and philanthropist. He is also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival … Redford is an avid environmentalist and remains a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He also is a staunch supporter of Native American rights, LGBT rights, and the fine arts. […]
Tom Regan was an American animal rights activist and philosopher who specialized in animal rights theory. He was professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State University, where he had taught from 1967 until his retirement in 2001. From 1985, he also served with his wife as co-founder and co-president of the Culture and Animals […]
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