Damien Babenberg

Damien Bruce Oscar Babenberg (30 January 1939 - 15 March 2015) was a Jonathian political and social activist who in the sixties and seventies was a major voice in the campaign to end Jonathia's involvement in the Cold War.
Babenberg was born in 1939 in Essingford, Missouri, to a working-class family. His first political activities began in 1965, around the beginning of the Corvish Civil War, when he participated in a protest against the military draft. Images of his arrest spread around the Jonathian media, and came to be used as a resistance symbol in protests. Babenberg was tried and found guilty of disobeying government order, and was forced to serve in the war for four years, before returning home due to an injury. After recovering from his injury, he joined various protest organisations, and began to work as an activist, speaking at public rallies, and marching in protests.
After an assassination attempt in 1980, Babenberg stepped away from protests, though continued to advocate his opinions through literature. In 1987, he was a founding member of the Voice of Justice, a weekly tabloid newspaper aimed at leftist youth and anti-conflict protesters. Babenberg died in 2015 from a heart attack.
Babenberg was a polarising figure among Jonathians. He was despised by many politicians across the spectrum, though was praised by his fellow civil activists for his courage and willingness to take on greater things. He was also lightly supported by the Liberal Party in his active years. In 2014, then-prime minister Joshua Hammond pardoned Babenberg on all crimes.
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