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Thich Nhat HanH
Vietnamese Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh is a teacher, an author, and a peace activist. He coined the term Engaged Buddhism and has been a world leader in non-violence practices and teachings.
Nhat Hanh joined a Zen monastery at the age of 16, studied Buddhism as a novice, and was fully ordained as a monk in 1949. In the early 1960's, he founded the School of Youth for Social Services (SYSS) in Saigon, a grass roots relief organization that rebuilt bombed villages, set up schools and medical centers, and resettled families left homeless during the Vietnam War.
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Democratic Congressman John Lewis is an American politician who was an important leader in the 
John Quigley is an environmental educator and artist whose human aerial art images for peace, social justice and the environment have appeared in publications and media outlets around the world. He made national headlines in 2002 when he lived in a historic Santa Clarita Valley oak for 71 days to spare it from the bulldozer. Resulting from his peaceful action, Old Glory - as the Stevenson Ranch oak was dubbed - was eventually moved to a site a quarter of a mile away.
Judy Rebick is a journalist, a political activist, and one of Canada's most prominent and respected left wing media figures. She is currently the Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University, Toronto. She is the founder of Canada's irreverent web magazine 
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Noah Levine is a meditation teacher, author and counsellor - with a punk rock background. 
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Ralph Nader is an American attorney and political activist in the areas of consumer rights, humanitarianism, environmentalism and democratic government. Nader has been a staunch critic of corporations, which he believes wield too much power and are undermining the fundamental American values of democracy and human rights. He helped found many governmental and non-governmental organizations, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Public Citizen, and several Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), including NYPIRG.
Sam Harris is an author with an interest in neuroscience, neuro-theology and religion. A philosophy graduate from Stanford University Harris has made a long study of both Eastern and Western religious traditions. Harris considers the time has come to speak openly and unambiguously about the dangers posed to society by religious belief. He is especially critical of the stance of religious moderation, which he sees as essentially providing cover to religious extremism while at the same time acting as an obstacle to progress in terms of pursuing more enlightened approaches towards spirituality and ethics.
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Sister Chân Không of the Plum Village Sangha is a teacher and a friend. Her name means True Emptiness, and she is the absolute embodiment of Emptiness and Love.
Van Jones is a spiritual activist, and a national environmental leader, working to combine solutions to America's two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction. Van is the founder of the