This is why I think they're heroes...

"I miss my books and my armchair and my garden. That's where I belong; that's home and that's why I came back because you don't have one; a home. It was taken from you and I will help you take it back if I can. "

From Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit [New Line Cinema, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) WingNut Films]

Nicholas Kristof. Intrepid reporter for NYT, 2 time Pulitzer winner and voice for the disenfranchised.

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/

Virginia Haussegger- journalist, feminist- 

http://www.virginiahaussegger.com.au/index.php?id=3ee34df6e67d90c1d6cd851f8897d36d

 Lizzie O'Shea- lawyer for refugees-  https://twitter.com/Lizzie_OShea

Mary Kostakidis- journalist; human rights and justice - https://twitter.com/MaryKostakidis

Glenn Greenwald- political commentator, liberty lawyer, voice for the voiceless -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/series/glenn-greenwald-security-liberty

John Pilger- war correspondent, social activist, author-  http://johnpilger.com/                   

Asher Wolf- journalist and social activist  http://asherwolf.net/

George Monbiot- social commentator, author, environmentalist, radical :)  -  http://www.monbiot.com/

Jill Filipovic- feminist, lawyer, writer -  http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/jill-filipovic

Murtaza Hussein-  journalist, Middle Eastern analyst-  http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/murtaza-hussain   and http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/201342312124223136.html 

Seumas Milne- editor guardian-  http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/seumasmilne

Robert Fisk - journalist- http://www.independent.co.uk/biography/robert-fisk

Gary Younge- http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/garyyounge

Michael Kirby- http://www.michaelkirby.com.au/

Huffington Post- Arianne Huffington- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Michael Moore- http://www.michaelmoore.com/

Richard Rohr- https://cac.org/getconnected/subscribe.php

 Gerry Georgatos- The Stringer- Indigenous and investigative journalism  -  http://thestringer.com.au/

Get Up!- Australian political action group-  http://www.getup.org.au/