Activists

[alt obits guy 3,088]

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

 

 

[charon 4,938]

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

 

 

[Sir Creep 7,011]

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.
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[Toast 14,780]

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.

[alt obits guy 3,088]

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/

 

[Spade_Cooley 9,001]

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.

[alt obits guy 3,088]

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

 

 

[charon 4,938]

Hmmmm.

Or was bumped off.

[alt obits guy 3,088]

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

 

 

[alt obits guy 3,088]

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

 

 

[YoungWillz 18,905]

Irish Travellers' rights activist and failed Irish Parliamentary candidate Nan Joyce, reportedly dead:

 

[gcreptile 10,200]

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/

[alt obits guy 3,088]

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

 

 

[Sir Creep 7,011]

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.

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[alt obits guy 3,088]

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/

 

[gcreptile 10,200]

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

[Joey Russ 7,118]

Another one of those “other pools” name, Auckland activist Penny Bright, did not make the starting line.

[alt obits guy 3,088]

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

 

[charon 4,938]

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

 

[charon 4,938]

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/

 

 

[charon 4,938]

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

 

 

[alt obits guy 3,088]

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

 

[alt obits guy 3,088]

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

 

[DevonDeathTrip 2,288]

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.

[Sir Creep 7,011]

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.

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