Thousands of local social justice organizers, activists and other leaders passed away this year. People doing crucial work in their communities, whose deaths didnt make the headlines. On this edition of Making Contact, as we do every December, well hear about some of the fallen heroes of 2017.
Featuring:
Dick Gregory, comedian and civil rights activist
Sumiteru Taniguchi, chairman of the Nagasaki Council of A-Bomb Sufferers
Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation executive director
Prudence Nobantu Mabele, President of the Society for Women and AIDS in Africa
Yvette Raphael, South African HIV Activist
Isidro Baldenegro Lopez, farmer and leader of Mexico's Tarahumara people
Randall Gingrich, Tierra Nativa director
Gauri Lankesh, journalist, activist and editor of Lankesh Patrike
Anu Natarajan, former Vice-Mayor of Fremont CA
Corey Dubin, HIV & hemophilia activist and radio journalist
Carl Weixler, president of the committee of 10,000
Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, first female MP in Sudan
Yosra Akasha, Sudanese feminist blogger
Dennis Banks, co-Founder of American Indian Movement (AIM)
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