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Date: October 23, 2021 02:39PM
Why didn't you say in the beginning?
Hope that's your short list. ;)
(It is a start) Hopefully you have more-
I don't hero anyone, but simply admire some various folks for their human or commUNITY achievements, tenacity, bravery, challenges, humanity, truths and/ or stories, experiences, information, vision(s) (not including anyone or anything Mormon, because they have PROVEN so untrustworthy, co-opted, and unbelievable)
Take Arundati Roy, for example... Oh India, America, and the world!
Ken Saro-wiwa - Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and which has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping. Initially as spokesperson, and then as president, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent campaign against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland by the operations of the multinational petroleum industry, especially the Royal Dutch Shell company. He is also known as a critic of the Nigerian government, for its allegedly reluctant behavior to enforce environmental regulations on the foreign petroleum companies operating in the area.
Wangari Maathai, 'The Woman Of Trees' (She mobilized Kenyans, particularly women, to plant more than 30 million trees, and inspired the United Nations to launch a campaign that has led to the planting of 11 billion trees worldwide ...)
Or Eddie snow den, who is snowed in
It was really a blizzard, he exposed
People weren't supposed to know.....
He's the star of the show, you know-
There's always ♡ Bob Marley ☆
What a man! A 》legend《 A realist~
I've seen the illustrious Wailers (sans dear Robert Nesta Marley) with the "I Threes", Sister Carol, Rita Marley, and Marcia Griffiths, as well as in solo performances, usually in SLC front in the eighties+ (along with many other reggae, ska, African, folk, rock and roll, world, edm and everything else music shows, from then to now)... the late [2021] great Lee "Scratch" Perry, who initially produced BMW (Bob Marley and the Wailers)...
PS- I could think of many more, but, according to time, I'm out of it.
Many you-others may not know. We all have 'heros' that speak to us but that are not that well known to others.
I like - and loved, though I never met him - a late, GREAT hero and regional champion in and of New Orlean's area communities' Immediate HELP and Recovery (and bullhorn) about widespread looting and the destruction, and response, after hurricane Katrina, in 2005... Malik Rahim, who founded the Common Ground Collective.
An American housing and prison activist, in 2005 Rahim gained national publicity as a community organizer in New Orleans- to combat the widespread destruction in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
I first learned of him/ the story on Democracy Now, where I've learned of a few more heros, like the lead reporter herself - and much more - and host, Amy Goodman. I met her when she spoke at Town Hall in Seattle some time ago.. I also like Jeremy Scahill (Great reporter and investigative journalist)... ART BELL (Coast To Coast), Orson Welles...
Some heros I've found on Story Corps
https://storycorps.org/ - recording people's stories (forever), stored at The Library of Congress. "Our mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world." Some great, everyday heros I've discovered at Storycorps over the years. Worth listens
Rachel Carson
Mark Twain
Woody Guthrie
[America's - and the world's- heroes!]
There are thousands
This is an abrvtd list
List list goes on...
As well, I must~
M@t