alt obits guy 3,360 Posted July 9, 2018 James 'Jim' Wells, a civil rights activist and member of the 'Friendship 9' protest group, has died. He was 77. https://www.heraldonline.com/latest-news/article214550175.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted July 12, 2018 Nathaniel Reed at 84, coauthored the Yankee Endangered Species Act. Pegged after sticking a hook in a salmon for fun. Tough shit ya two faced shitebag. http://midco.net/news/read/category/news/article/the_associated_press-nathaniel_reed_tireless_environmental_advocate_die-ap Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,068 Posted July 12, 2018 1 hour ago, charon said: Nathaniel Reed at 84, coauthored the Yankee Endangered Species Act. Pegged after sticking a hook in a salmon for fun. Tough shit ya two faced shitebag. http://midco.net/news/read/category/news/article/the_associated_press-nathaniel_reed_tireless_environmental_advocate_die-ap [He] fell and clipped his head on a rock July 3 after catching and releasing a salmon on the Grand Cascapedia River. Thanks for your bogus editorial. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,026 Posted July 12, 2018 17 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: [He] fell and clipped his head on a rock July 3 after catching and releasing a salmon on the Grand Cascapedia River. Thanks for your bogus editorial. SC Still probably wasn't much fun for the salmon. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,360 Posted July 22, 2018 Carlos Enrique Russell, who spearheaded Black Solidarity Day, a day initially tied to a community gathering prior to U.S. Presidential elections but later expanded to encompass less formal events before that quadrennial event , died July 10th. He was 84. https://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/regional/caribbean-diaspora-activist-founder-of-black-solidarity-day-dies/article_de3e5ca6-8a8e-11e8-ad63-9ff6fb1ced28.html More information on Black Solidarity Day: https://www.newpaltz.edu/blackstudiesproudtradition/black-solidarity-day/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,459 Posted July 23, 2018 June Jacobs, leading British campaigner for Jewish rights, dead at 88. Caused a minor incident in 1989 when she met with Yasser Arafat adviser Bassam Abu Sharif. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,360 Posted July 24, 2018 Oksana Shachko, co-founder of the protest group FEMEN, has died. She was 31. Shachko reportedly committed suicide. https://www.rferl.org/a/femen-activist-shachko-found-dead-in-paris-suicide-suspected/29386587.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted July 24, 2018 Hmmmm. Or was bumped off. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,360 Posted July 24, 2018 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, a researcher & activist who helped uncover documents proving World War II Japanese internment camps were borne out of racism and not necessity, has died. She was 92. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-aiko-herzig-yoshinaga-obituary-20180723-story.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,360 Posted July 26, 2018 Adem Demaci, a human rights defender and Kosovo dissident, has died. He was 82. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/26/human-rights-defender-and-kosovo-dissident-adem-demaci-dies.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 20,890 Posted August 8, 2018 Irish Travellers' rights activist and failed Irish Parliamentary candidate Nan Joyce, reportedly dead: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,909 Posted August 11, 2018 On 08/08/2018 at 13:39, YoungWillz said: Irish Travellers' rights activist and failed Irish Parliamentary candidate Nan Joyce, reportedly dead: Her grandson now also dead in a car crash during his trip to the funeral: https://www.thesun.ie/news/2969500/grandson-traveller-rights-champion-dies-crash-dublin/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,360 Posted August 17, 2018 David McReynolds, a long-time peace activist, writer and photographer and the first openly-gay candidate to run for U.S. President, has died. He was 88. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-news-david-mcreynolds-dead-88-story.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,068 Posted August 20, 2018 Uri Avnery, a left-wing peace activist who in 1982 became the first prominent Israeli to meet in public with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, died on Monday in a Tel Aviv hospital. He was 94. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,360 Posted September 6, 2018 Sylvia Meehan, an Irish women's rights campaigner and the first chief executive of the Employment Equality Agency, has died. She was 89. https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2018/0906/992038-sylvia-meehan-death/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,909 Posted September 20, 2018 Human rights campaigner, and key participant in the founding of Amnesty International, Sir Louis Blom-Cooper dead at 92: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/sep/20/human-rights-pioneer-louis-blom-cooper-dies-aged-92 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,207 Posted October 4, 2018 Another one of those “other pools” name, Auckland activist Penny Bright, did not make the starting line. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,360 Posted November 3, 2018 Audrey Parker, an advocate for changing Canada’s assisted-death laws, has died. She was 57. Parker died by medically-assisted suicide. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/audrey-parker-writes-her-own-obit-i-died-a-beautiful-death-1.4160689 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted November 4, 2018 Kateryna Handzuik, a Ukrainian political activist has died from injuries sustained in an acid attack at the end of July. https://en.hromadske.ua/posts/ukrainian-activist-and-whistleblower-official-dies-after-acid-attack Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted December 8, 2018 Russian civil no righter activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva dies aged 91. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/rights-chief-lyudmila-alexeyeva-one-of-russias-oldest-most-decorated-human-rights-activists-has-died-at-91/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted December 12, 2018 Mary Louise Watson aged 99, one of the Nashville school desegregation crowd. https://www.newschannel5.com/news/mary-louise-watson-pioneer-of-nashvilles-desegregation-era-dies-at-99 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,360 Posted January 12, 2019 John Hunter Gray, aka John Salter Jr., a civil rights activist featured prominently in the famed 1963 Woolworth lunch counter sit-in demonstration photograph, has died. He was 84. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/activist-lunch-counter-protest-photo-dies-84-n957591 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,360 Posted February 27, 2019 Josephine Mandamin, a water activist from Wikwemikong First Nation who walked 17,000 km along the Great Lakes, has died. She was 77. https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/josephine-mandamin-water-walk-activist-obit-1.5032535 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,348 Posted February 28, 2019 Egyptian feminist, doctor, novelist and activist Nawal El Saadawi, 87, has a crowdfunding page up to pay her hospital bills. The latest update is that she is getting better, but definitely someone to keep an eye on, as her health looks rather perilous. Also, as an added bonus, she's the subject of frequent death threats from disgruntled Islamic traditionalists who consider her enlightened views to be heretical. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,068 Posted March 6, 2019 Dr. Lonnie King Jr., a leader of the Atlanta Student Movement in the 1960s, died Tuesday morning. King, who studied at Morehouse College, was one of the students who went against the university leader’s attempts to keep students from protesting. He, along with civil rights leaders such as Julian Bond, planned to following in the footsteps of the sit-ins that happened in Greensboro, North Carolina. SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites