2005: People/Mavericks Of The Year

Third in a series of looks back at 2005...

Time magazine has selected Bono as well as Bill and Melinda Gates as its People of the Year for their activism and their work in mobilizing efforts to tackle world poverty:
Persons of the Year

Meanwhile, Rolling Stone selects its 'Mavericks' of the year; the people who made a difference:
Mavericks, Renegades, and Troublemakers

Those acknowledged include- Cindy Sheehan (for restarting the national debate on the war), Rep. Jack Murtha (for doing the same in Congress), Capt. Ian Fishback (for his courage in speaking out on the use of torture by the U.S. military), George Clooney (for his classy political films), and Kanye West (for saying on live TV when many Americans were thinking in the aftermath of Katrina).

As Andrew Sullivan noted, this was a banner year for speaking truth to power.

Let's hope 2006 is even better.