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Justice League - Top 20 Worldwide

Since there are only twelve members of the Fall of Fame, but many people making good trouble around the globe, the Good Trouble Makers Justice League is meant to acknowledge those other individuals affecting positive change through peaceful actions. This is our inaugural list of the Top 20 Worldwide Good Trouble Makers from the past and present.

Top 20 Worldwide
Good Trouble Makers Past and Present

Greta Thunberg (Sweden) — Youth climate movement catalyst

Youth leader who sparked a global climate movement and most recently part of multiple aid flotillas, including the Global Samud Flotilla, with a mission to bring food and needed supplies to Gaza.

Desmond Tutu (South Africa) — Anti-apartheid, truth & reconciliation

Archbishop who wielded moral fire against apartheid.

Wangari Maathai (Kenya) — Green Belt Movement, Nobel laureate

Kenyan environmentalist who planted trees to grow justice.

Lech Wałęsa (Poland) — Solidarity labor leader, democracy activist

Polish shipyard worker who led Solidarity and toppled dictatorship.

Václav Havel (Czech Republic) — Dissident playwright turned president

Playwright-dissident who became president and symbol of Czech democracy.

Rigoberta Menchú (Guatemala) — Indigenous rights, Nobel laureate

Indigenous Guatemalan activist who brought her people’s struggle to the world.

Rosa Luxemburg (Poland/Germany) — Anti-war revolutionary thinker

Revolutionary thinker who fought for workers and against war.

José Martí (Cuba) — Poet of independence & anti-imperialism

Poet-patriot who gave his life for Cuban independence.

Oskar Schindler (Germany) — Rescued Jews during the Holocaust

Businessman who saved over a thousand Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Germany) — Pastor who resisted Nazism

German pastor who resisted Nazism and paid with his life.

Emmeline Pankhurst (UK) — Suffragette movement leader

Suffragette leader who fought for women’s right to vote in Britain.

Mary Wollstonecraft (UK) — Pioneer of women’s rights

Early feminist whose pen demanded equality for women.

Ai Weiwei (China) — Artist and government critic

Chinese artist who turned creativity into fearless resistance.

Andrei Sakharov (USSR/Russia) — Dissident physicist, Nobel laureate

Soviet physicist-turned-dissident who demanded human rights.

Liu Xiaobo (China) — Charter 08, Nobel laureate

Nobel laureate who died imprisoned for demanding democracy in China.

Ken Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria) — Environmental & minority rights martyr

Nigerian writer executed for defending his people and their land.

Narges Mohammadi (Iran) — Women’s rights & anti-repression, Nobel laureate

Iranian activist imprisoned for fighting for women and democracy.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya (Belarus) — Pro-democracy opposition leader

Belarusian opposition leader who challenged dictatorship with courage.

Berta Cáceres (Honduras) — Indigenous environmental defender

Honduran Indigenous leader murdered for defending land and human rights.

Kailash Satyarthi (India) — Child labor abolitionist, Nobel laureate

Indian activist who freed thousands of children from forced labor.

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