The anthropologist, anarchist and activist, author of "Debt: The First 5000 Years" and "Bullshit Jobs", has died at the age of 59. His openness, originality and optimism will be hugely missed.
Author and activist Leslie Feinberg died this week, just before Transgender Day of Remembrance. As the opposite of a single-issue activist, ze showed what it was to resist, and to stand in solidarity with others.
Tributes are flooding in to the renowned Russian human rights lawyer Yury Schmidt, who has died aged 75. Schmidt devoted much of his career to defending critics of the Russian government and others accused of political crimes, from environmental whistleblowers to oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
