* 1952 – Medea Benjamin, American activist, co-founded Code Pink

Among those represented were Ralph Nader's Public Citizen organization ( Medea Benjamin and Linda Chavez-Thompson ), the Brazilian NGO Ibase ( Cândido Grzybowski and Moema Miranda ), the Brazilian association of entrepreneurs for citizenship CIVES ( Oded Grajew, founder of the WSF ), the Brazilian Commission on Justice and Peace ( Francisco Whitaker ), ATTAC ( Christophe Aguiton ), CRID France ( Gustave Massiah ), Focus on the Global South Thailand ( Nicola Bullard ), and the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World ( Gustavo Marín ).

* Medea Benjamin, Code Pink co-founder

Medea Benjamin ( born Susan Benjamin on September 10, 1952 ) is an American political activist, best known for co-founding Code Pink and, along with her husband, activist and author Kevin Danaher, fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange.

Medea Benjamin speaks at a rally during the 2007 State of the Union Address in Washington, D. C.

The next morning, Cyrus and his family count the money, Buck keeps the mask used by Benjamin Rush to scare Buck's big sister Medea Zorba, and they decide to stay.

" Appearing at the first PDA meeting in Roxbury, Massachusetts were leaders, activists, and politicians including Dean and Kucinich, U. S. Representatives John Conyers, Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Barbara Lee, Jesse Jackson, James Zogby, Tom Hayden, Medea Benjamin, John Lauritsen, and Current PDA Executive Director Tim Carpenter.

* Medea Benjamin

Code Pink was founded on November 17, 2002 by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin and other activists.

Co-founder Medea Benjamin writes in the Huffington Post that the United States never had any " justification for invading Iraq ", that there is no " justification for continuing the war in Afghanistan ", and that in Pakistan, the US " drone attacks are only fueling the violence and creating more Osama Bin Ladens.

In 1988, Medea Benjamin, Kevin Danaher, Kirsten Moller, and Kathie Klarreich founded Global Exchange.

Agamemnon, Creon, and Medea perform their tragic actions before the eyes of the polis.

Alcmene was born to Electryon ( or Alcaeus, Perseus and Andromeda's son ), the son of Perseus and Andromeda, and king of Tiryns and Mycenae or Medea in Argolis.

Upon his return to Athens, Aegeus married Medea, who had fled from Corinth and the wrath of Jason.

Aegeus and Medea had one son named Medus.

Medea tried to have Theseus killed by encouraging Aegeus to ask him to capture the Marathonian Bull, but Theseus succeeded.

Father and son were thus reunited, and Medea was sent away to Asia.

Sophocles ' tragedy Aegeus has been lost, but Aegeus features in Euripides ' Medea.

An early image of winged Daedalus appears on an Etruscan jug of ca 630 BC found at Cerveteri, where a winged figure captioned Taitale appears on one side of the vessel, paired on the other side, uniquely, with Metaia, Medea: " its linking of these two mythical figures is unparalleled ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " The link was probably based on their wondrous, miraculous art.

Fragment of a vellum codex from the 4th-5th centuries AD, showing choral anapaests from Medea ( play ) | Medea, lines 1087-91.

She later convinced Jason and Medea to kill Pelias.

In 425 BC, which is about the time that Herodotus is thought by many scholars to have died, the Athenian comic dramatist, Aristophanes, created The Acharnians, in which he blames The Peloponnesian War on the abduction of some prostitutes-a mocking reference to Herodotus, who reported the Persians ' account of their wars with Greece, beginning with the rapes of the mythical heroines Io, Europa, Medea and Helen.

Apollonius of Rhodes, in the Argonautica mentions that Medea was taught by Hecate, " I have mentioned to you before a certain young girl whom Hecate, daughter of Perses, has taught to work in drugs.

He was married to the sorceress Medea.

Jason appeared in various literature in the classical world of Greece and Rome, including the epic poem Argonautica and tragedy, Medea.

However, Hera had persuaded Aphrodite to convince her son Eros to make Aeetes's daughter, Medea, fall in love with Jason.

As a result, Medea aided Jason in his tasks.

Medea provided an ointment that protected him from the oxen's flames.

Medea had previously warned Jason of this and told him how to defeat this foe.

Jason sprayed the dragon with a potion, given by Medea, distilled from herbs.

He then sailed away with Medea.

Medea distracted her father, who chased them as they fled, by killing her brother Apsyrtus and throwing pieces of his body into the sea ; Aeetes stopped to gather them.

In another version, Medea lured Apsyrtus into a trap.

In any case, Jason and Medea escaped.

On the way back to Iolcus, Medea prophesied to Euphemus, the Argo's helmsman, that one day he would rule Cyrene.

For example, from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative journalist ; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President George W. Bush ; from entertainment: Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Michael Glaser, TV actor of " Starsky and Hutch "; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London ; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U. S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco ; from medicine: Michael DeBakey, inventor of the roller pump, and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General ; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and Lisa P. Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator under President Obama ; from sports: Bobby Brown, former New York Yankees third baseman and former president of the American League.

Entrepreneur and business executive alumni include Safra Catz ( President of Oracle Corporation ), David L. Cohen ( executive Vice-President of Comcast and former Chief of Staff to Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, Scott Mead, former partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs, Peter Detkin ( co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, and former Vice-President and assistant general counsel at Intel ), Paul Haaga ( Vice Chairman of Capital Research and Management Company, a constituent company of the Capital Group Companies ), Sam Hamadeh ( founder of Vault. com ), Edward Benjamin Shils ( professor and founder of the first research center for entrepreneurial studies in the world ( at Wharton )), Gigi Sohn ( founder of Public Knowledge ), and Henry Silverman ( CEO of Cendant Corporation ).

Investors included Dave McClure of 500 Startups, last. fm founder Felix Miller, Delicious founder Joshua Schachter, Brian Nelson ( CEO at Japan-based ValueCommerce ), Pageflakes co-founder Christoph Janz, Benjamin Joffe ( CEO at China-based Plus Eight Star ), and a number of Japanese angels.

Benjamin " Ben " Weider, ( February 1, 1923 – October 17, 2008 ) was the co-founder of the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness ( IFBB ) along with brother Joe Weider.

Benjamin Trott, born, is a co-founder ( with wife Mena Trott ) of Six Apart, creator of Movable Type and TypePad.

Other notable members include: World famous scientist, George Washington Carver, the first black Rhodes Scholar Alain LeRoy Locke, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton, organizer of the Million Man March, Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, civil rights activists, Hosea Williams, Rev.

* Benjamin Wilson ( biblical scholar ) ( 1817 – 1900 ), writer of the Emphatic Diaglott and co-founder of the Church of God of the Abrahamic Faith