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Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental change, or stasis.
Alexis Ohanian
known for co-founding the social news website Reddit
Ben Cohen
is an American businessman, activist, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of the ice cream company Ben & Jerry's.
Tommy Chong
is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, writer, director, activist, and musician.
Zacharia "Zach" Wahls
is the son of two lesbians and an activist on behalf of LGBT equality
Daniel Ellsberg
is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study to The New York Times
Zachary "Zack" Kopplin
is a science and education activist from Louisiana.
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I'm Keith Forsyth, I broke into the FBI in 1971, and helped uncover COINTELPRO and take down Hoover. Ask me anything.
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Mason Tvert
co-directed the campaign in support of Amendment 64, the initiative to regulate marijuana like alcohol, which Colorado voters approved 55-45 this past November
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We are the ACLU, EFF, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, Free Press, Restore the Fourth, and Tech Freedom. Ask us anything about surveillance, privacy, or the Amash Amendment being voted on by the House today, which would end the NSA's blanket...
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We are students that have taken over Taiwan's Legislature. Almost half a million people have joined us in support. AMA!
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Today is International Right to Know Day. We are the Centre for Law and Democracy, an organization that works to promote transparency around the world. Ask us anything about government transparency, or your right to know!
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Ann Druyan
author and producer specializing in productions about cosmology and popular science. She made substantial contributions to the PBS documentary series Cosmos and was the third wife of the late Carl Sagan
Michael Pollan
author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
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We are ACLU experts demanding better privacy protections for police use of license plate tracking technology. AMA.
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