For more than seventy years, the Minnesota-based writer and activist Meridel Le Sueur was a voice for oppressed peoples worldwide. Beginning in the 1920s, she championed the struggles of workers against the capitalist economy, the efforts of women to find their voices and their power, the rights of American Indians to their lands and their cultures, and environmentalist causes.
Leader in the South Australian suffrage movement and a worker for working women.
Canadian author, professor, activist, and filmmaker
Born in Calumet, Michigan to Slovenian immigrant parents in 1888, Anna Klobuchar Clemenc Shaw was instrumental in the fight for worker’s rights during the 1913-14 Copper Miners’ Strike in Michigan’s Copper Country.
Rosalinda Guillen is a farmworker and justice leader as well as the Executive Director of Community to Community Development.
In 1992, Veloria became the first Filipina in the United States to be elected to a state legislature.
Mohamath, as the food justice coordinator for the Rainier Beach Action Coalition (RBAC) works directly with Black, Brown, Indigenous and other people of color farmers and advocates to support them.
Hazel Wolf was well known as an environmentalist and social activist.
Clara Fraser was incredibly passionate about workers and women’s rights as well as fighting against the segregation that was present in Seattle in the mid-1900s.
New Zealand midwife, welfare worker, feminist and social reformer