Politics Archives - Page 32 of 58

Doris Lessing

Writer, ‘political agitator’ and Communist

Dorice Reid

Cook Islands businesswoman, judge and tourism official Dorice Reid was active for decades until her death in 2011, and held the title Te Tika Mataiapo.

Libbāli-šarrat

Queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 600s BCE

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton was the first woman appointed to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and continues to fight for DC statehood in her third decade as a congresswoman.

Dr LaNada War Jack

LaNada War Jack is an indigenous activist, who since childhood, has fought to preserve Native American identity and tribal rights.

Mary Kate Ryan

Irish academic and political activist

Min Ryan

Irish teacher and political activist

Following the communist coup of February 1948 in Czechoslovakia, as many as 100,000 people were prosecuted for ‘political crimes’, most of whom were sentenced to lengthy periods in penal institutions and forced labour camps, including Dagmar Šimková, who later produced a detailed autobiographical account of her experiences in prison, Byly jsme tam taky [“We were there too”].