Twilly Cannon
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Howard Charles Cannon III (September 23, 1955 – March 29, 2016), known as Twilly Cannon, was an American environmental and social justice activist. As a member of Greenpeace, Earth First! and a co-founder of the Ruckus Society, he was involved in numerous civil disobedience actions as well as training and skill-sharing with other activists and organizers.
Cannon was born in Newark, New Jersey to Barbara and Howard Cannon Jr. and grew up in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey. He attended Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft and The Evergreen State College.[1]
In 1977, he participated in the Seabrook, New Hampshire anti-nuke campaign, which helped stop the proliferation of U.S. nuclear power plants.[2]
In the late 1980s, he helped stage Greenpeace actions against aluminum factories on the Saguenay and St. Lawrence rivers whose waste was killing beluga wales and threatening human health.[3]
In 1995, he and Mike Roselle founded the Ruckus Society, a nonprofit organization that sponsors skill-sharing and non-violent direct action training, strategy and consultation for activists and organizers from frontline and impacted communities working on social justice, human rights, migrant rights, workers rights and environmental justice.[1][4] Through his training, Cannon also helped AIDS activist groups protest anti-AIDS legislation.[5]
He died in Brielle, New Jersey, aged 60.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Howard Charles Cannon III". Asbury Park Press. Asbury Park, New Jersey. April 2, 2016. p. A8.
- ^ Friend, Tad (October 1996). "We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Fledgling Monkeywrenchers Learning to Speak in Sound Bites". Outside (magazine). Retrieved March 11, 2025.
- ^ Harwood, Michael (October 2, 1988). "Daredevils for the Environment". New York Times. Retrieved March 16, 2025.
- ^ Sellers, John (July–August 2001). "Raising a Ruckus" (PDF). New Left Review (10): 71–85. Retrieved March 11, 2025.
- ^ Zabcik, Brian (June 28, 2021). "Protesting like Your Life Depended on It". Natural Resources Defense Council. Retrieved March 16, 2025.
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