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Famous People with Name Burnley

Burnley as First Name

Burnley Allan "Rocky" Jones     Burnley Allan "Rocky" Jones       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Burnley Allan "Rocky" Jones: is an internationally known political activist in the areas of human rights, race and poverty. He rose to prominence first as a member of the Students Union for Peace Action (SUPA) during the 1960s and later as a successful lawyer. In March 1965, Jones joined the Students Union for Peace Action (SUPA) in a demonstration outside of the American Consulate in Toronto, Ontario. Shortly thereafter the media began to refer to him as Rocky the Revolutionary and he was often considered to be Canada's Stokely Carmichael. He was a leader with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was responsible for bringing the Black Panther Party to Canada. Jones is a founding member of The Black United Front of Nova Scotia, National Black Coalition of Canada, Dalhousie University Transition Year Program (where he taught for 10 years), Dalhousie Law School Indigenous Blacks and Mi'kmaq Program, African Canadian Liberation Movement, African Canadian Caucus of Nova Scotia and the Nova Scotia Project to name a few. In 1980, Jones ran unsuccessfully for the New Democratic Party in a Nova Scotia by-election for Halifax Needham.[1] At that time, he was one of the few known Black Canadian politicians. Jones was chairperson of the Popular People's Summit; An Alternative to the 1995 G7. Jones has had other roles with the New Democratic Party and in 2009 helped Lenore Zann with her successful campaign run for member of the legislative assembly.

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Burnley as Last Name

Benjamin Jackson Burnley     Benjamin Jackson Burnley       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Benjamin Jackson Burnley: Ben taught himself to play guitar by listening to Nirvana's Nevermind. Ben has also claimed that Nirvana was his biggest influence. Before Breaking Benjamin was formed, Ben had earned money by playing cover songs in various coffee houses as a solo artist under his own name "Benjamin". He later came up with the bands name "Breaking Benjamin" after doing a performance of a Nirvana cover when he knocked over a cheap microphone from Radioshack that he borrowed from someone, to the ground. The owner of the borrowed gear came on stage and said "I'd like to thank Benjamin for breaking my fucking microphone

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