1/. The death of #QueenElizabeth may have dominated this year👇but it was just one of many notable lives lost in 2022 including many activists, some of whom - like Sidney Poitier - you may have heard of.
This thread is dedicated to ones you might not know
2/. Sacheen Littlefeather
In 1973, Marlon Brando refused to accept his Oscar & sent actress, Sacheen, to deliver this message in his place
People booed!
Clint Eastwood mocked her!
Off stage, John Wayne had to be restrained to stop him assaulting her!
3/. Lawyer Urvashi Vaid, fought for LGBTQ & women's rights for decades & is described as “one of the most influential progressive activists of our time”
Sadly, her speech at the March on Washington in 1993 are as as relevant today as they were back then.
4/. Twenty years ago, as the bombs rained down on Iraq, Eric Levy was in a Baghdad power station
He was one of hundreds of Westerners who’d gone to Iraq as “human shields” to try & stop an illegal war & protect Iraqi civilian infrastructure sites
Age didn’t temper his activism.
5/. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause & reflect” (Twain)
Indefatigable peace activist ,Bruce Kent, died aged 92
He gave up priesthood to campaign against nuclear weapons
His words about Blair👇stayed with me
6/. “Once you remove a person from homeland you so dispossess them they become guest on their own land"
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, campaigner, actor & Arrernte Anmatjere advocate for Indigenous rights, died in 2022, aged 85
She starred in the 1955 film, Jedda
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7/ Don Luce died in 2022, aged 88
He was a persistent opponent of the Vietnam War & exposed many of its horrors
The last American ambassador to South Vietnam said of his activism that it was a major force in turning the public & Congress against the war
washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…
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