Troy Newman (activist) on its campaign against abortion doctor George Tiller, which culminated in his assassination by Scott Roeder, an Operation Rescue supporter. More recently, Newman attracted international attention for his illegal entry to Australia (and subsequent deportation). Born in Anchorage, Alaska, Newman was adopted at birth to a family in San Diego, California, where he grew up as a self-described "surfer boy". He has cited his own experience as an adoptee as one of the reasons for his anti-abortion views. Newman made contact with his birth father later in life, and subsequently added his birth father's surname, Mariotti, to his own, although
George Garrett (activist) a merchant seaman, writer, playwright and founder member of the Unity Theatre, Liverpool. He was a radical activist who travelled the world and wrote a series of short stories, plays and pieces of reportage about hunger and unemployment in the 1930s. He was a syndicalist who joined the Wobblies when he lived in New York for three years, and was influenced by the Irish American Playwright, Eugene O'Neill. He died of throat cancer on 28 May 1966. George Garrett (activist) George Garrett (13 August 1896 Seacombe – 28 May 1966) was a British labour activist, writer and actor. He was