Proposals for Gallery of Peace Women Portraits

If you have not added your proposal for a peace woman, please do so here.

If the world could be run by women I feel love, peace and common sense would prevail.
jan.bownes <jan.bownes@btopenworld.com>
hereford uk, Britain - Friday, December 31, 2004 at 07:16:05 (CST)

SHEILA PARKS was born and brought up in Boston, attended the public schools and then went to Radcliffe College for her bachelor's degree in Social Relations. She received her master's degree in Education from Columbia University in 1961. After teaching Educational Psychology at BU and at the graduate school of Lesley College, she had a spritual awakening and left her teacing career to become a full-time peace activist and organizer. As a member of the groupo Ailanthus (Haley House Cahtolic Worker) she committed civil disobedience to protest the research being done at Draper Weapons Laboratory in Cambridge MA on first-strike nuclear weapons. She soon joined the Atlantic Life Community and spent six years doing civil disobedience and educating the public about the immense dangers and devastation that nuclear war would bring. In teh 1980's she committed civil disobedience by illegally entering the Electric Boat Company in Rhode Island, a manufactuerer of nuclear-powered submarines. With a grop of protesters, she took a hammer to the housing of a submarine that would carry nuclear missiles, and poured her own blood upon it. Whe was arrested, charged with a felony, and convicted. She spent one year in Jail. This action, the 13th International Ploughshares was called the tRident II Pruning Hook. After she was released, she helped to organize a Jewish Peace tour, in which she traveled across the United States, speaking to groups about the dangers of nuclear weapons and the need to organize and demonstrate against them. She also traveled to the women's peace camp at Greenham Common, England, answering their call for women to protest NATO's war games; and to Israel and Palestine, always working for two states for two peoples. Her publications include fifteen articles and a booklet, which were published over the period 1978 to 1996 by Peacework, Sojourner, the Haley House Newsletter, the Boston Jewish Times, and the Radcliffe Quarterly. Honors, awards and a grant which she received are as follows: Two awards form teh War Resisters' League - the International Peace Prisoners Honor Roll, and the 25th Annual Peace Award New Jewish Agenda: Unsung Heroine for Deep and Lifelong Commitment to "Tikkum Olam" US Department of Health Education adn Welfare (HEW) grant for writing the booklet "Sex-Role Sterotyping in the Public Schools: a Strategy for Counteraction"
Jean Weber
USA - Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 18:37:02 (CST)

Abigail Adams
no name
USA - Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 18:33:15 (CST)

DORIS HADDOCK (GRANNY D) - her walk acorss the US at such an advanced age and with health problems is what inspired me to get off my butt and become an activist. Her question "what kind of world am I leaving for my grandchildren?" forced me to ask myself the same question. Granny D is unstopable! I hope she is elected to serve in the senate for at least 2 terms!
Margie Jessup
USA - Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 18:04:16 (CST)

MARION B. DAVIS - Founder Self Esteem Boston, the founded the only nonprofit agency dedicated to self-esteem education for at-risk women/girls in the greater Boston area.
Jeri Levitt
USA - Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 18:01:51 (CST)

DEIRDRE DORAN - long time activist, war tax resister Lesbian, feminist, fabulous person, always in the struggle
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USA - Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 17:59:47 (CST)

NELL ELPERIN - Mainstay and spirit of Boston WILPF for over 20 years. Wherever there was a peace demonstration, Nell and her husband Ron were present - with a WILPF table. To the very end of her life she was contributing letters to the editor and suggestions for WILPF's newsletter on a wide rage of peace and justice issues.
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USA - Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 17:58:33 (CST)

DHANYI YWAHOO - A spiritual leader. Cherokee chieftess, Tibetan Buddhist teacher. Founder of the Sunray Meditation Society
P. Cantor
USA - Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 17:47:16 (CST)

TI GRACE ATKINSON - feminist theorist, NYC
RACHAEL CARSON - environmentalist
Joanne Steele <aardvark@ulster.net>
USA - Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 19:49:30 (CDT)

REINA ESTRADA - worker for women's rights and counseling torture victims from Honduras and elsewhere - worker for women's health issues - works with The Grail, a Cahtolic women's international organization in Cornwall, New York state.
Alice Kolbe <ajsk@mail.ccsinetl.net>
USA - Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 19:46:05 (CDT)

ALLISON KRAUSE, a victim of the Kent State massacre, was true to a photo in which she was captured giving a flower to a National Guardsman the weekend before she died. She was a budding intellectual with grace and compassion and she would have done great things on whatever scale. As it is her life was given in a way that may have saved many more. She was the essence of peace.
xx xx
USA - Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 19:43:39 (CDT)

FRANCES CROWE - a long-time peace and justice activist (since Hiroshima) working for 28 years for Peace Center in her basement. She co-ordinated Western AFSC; now a strong media advocate operating an underground radio. Her main program is Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, a program with many regular listeners.
Elizabeth Leonard
USA - Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 19:40:29 (CDT)

Dolores Huerta - VP of the United Labor Workers, organized from the beginning with Cesar Chavez and carried a great load - in the movement while raising a large family - in a nonviolent cause.
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xx, xx USA - Wednesday, August 04, 2004 at 10:10:48 (CDT)

Edith Bell - 80 year old Holocoust survivor. Relentless female for peace at WILPF Pittsburgh
Regina Birchem <rbirchem@a1usa.net>
Irwin, PA USA - Wednesday, August 04, 2004 at 10:08:13 (CDT)

First wave feminist artist JUDY CHICAGO and her organization Through the Flower have worked for peace and understanding between the sexes, different religions, classes and other differences that tear people apart. Her projects like The Dinner Party and The Holocaust Project and The Birth Project can all be viewed on line at Through the Flower.
Cydra Vaux <womansculpture@mindspring.com>
Pittsburgh, PA USA - Monday, August 02, 2004 at 10:28:51 (CDT)

congresswomen BARBARA LEE and MAXINE WATERS: the best in congress. barbara lee bravely voted against the iraq war, when no one else did, and continues to speak out on issues of concern to the people. maxine waters does the same, and took the lead in exposing the haiti u.s coup to oust aristede. both progressive voices in the belly of the beast.
karen bercovici <kberco@noho.com>
northampton, MA USA - Friday, July 23, 2004 at 14:48:52 (CDT)

Marilyn Milos, founder of www.NOCIRC.org
Dan Bollinger <danbollinger@insightbb.com>
West Lafayette, IN USA - Thursday, July 22, 2004 at 13:01:59 (CDT)

I nominate the singer, ROSALIE SORRELS. Now 71, she has been singing all her life about women and their trials -- single mothers, abortion rights, her own family and life in Boise, Idaho, her friends including both men and women; the Beat poets; the environment; etc., etc. Her work is enshrined at the Smithsonian, she's an American institution and transcends the genre, "folk-singing" to achieve real, unsentimental, funny, profound, always moving greatness. Some readers will instantly recognize her name. I don't see any other musicians as nominees.
Ellen Cantarow <ecantarow@comcast.net>
Medford, MA` USA - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 12:02:42 (CDT)

Liz Lerman , Founding Artistic Director of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange has choreographed works that have been seen throughout the United States and abroad. Combining dance with realistic imagery, her works are defined by the spoken word, drawing from literature, personal experience, philosophy, and political and social commentary. The inclusion of community, especially the elder community, in her dance, the topics on which she choreographs so eloquently, and her seemingly limitless capacity to marry beauty to compassion in her work makes everything she does actively peaceful. She is an artist/peacemaker.
Mary-Ann Greanier <mgreanier@comcast.net>
Plainville, MA USA - Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 20:08:57 (CDT)

Dr. Elma Lewis founded the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts. The school was established to meet the cultural and artistic needs of the African American community in Boston. Lewis developed a comprehensive program teaching dance, drama, art, music and costume design. Twenty-five students enrolled on the first day of school. In 1966, Lewis founded Playhouse in the Park, a summer theater program that featured performers such as Duke Ellington. Two years later, Lewis founded the National Center of Afro-American Artists, an umbrella organization that included the school, jazz and classical orchestras, a chorus, a dance troupe and a museum. Her work opened the door for so many African American artists and enriched the arts forever in Boston, in the US, in the world.
Mary-Ann Greanier <mgreanier@comcast.net>
Plainville, MA USA - Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 20:08:07 (CDT)

SISTER SELENE, of Los Angeles. A tireless worker for justice for over 40 years who is still active in the community. One of the stalwarts of the 40-day Justice Prayer Vigil in Inglewood, a member of 1 L.A., and works with children and youth as a member of the Pastoral Council of a local diocese, and President of the parent council of SESA Conservatory, and one of the original members of the Black Panther Party (originally started by the sisters). Sister Selene has become my new mentor and pushes hard for us to continue to battle the struggle.
Grayce Gadson <mcclarty@aol.com>
Los Angeles, CA USA - Monday, July 19, 2004 at 15:41:03 (CDT)

BRUNETTA FOWLER has stood for peace and justice in the middle of Klan country Indiana for more than 50 years. A black woman who's fought for justice from the perch of small town America, and helped us to enjoy better education, employment and political opportunities. Mrs. Fowler led the battle to integrate schools in Kokomo during the 1960's. She was recognized with the President's Award at the first Black Expo held in Indianapolis in 1971. Brunetta has been housed in a convalescent home in Kokomo, Indiana for a few years now, yet it is her spirit that helps those of us from Kokomo to continue to fight the mighty fight. Thank you, Brunetta.
Grayce Gadson <mcclarty@aol.com>
Los Angeles, CA USA - Monday, July 19, 2004 at 15:21:33 (CDT)

Kim Charlson. A tireless advocate for the blind and visually impaired, literacy, braille literacy, guide dogs, live description of live theatre for the blind, human rights advocate.
Vicki Vogt <wolfdreamer53@earthlink.net>
Watertown, MA USA - Friday, July 16, 2004 at 14:43:52 (CDT)

I think this will put both my nominees over the million mark, but just want to make sure they are represented KATHY KELLY - started voices in the wilderness ARUNDHATI ROY
paul siemering <abuelito@comcast.net>
cambridge, ma USA - Friday, July 16, 2004 at 13:32:48 (CDT)

Ruth Hubbard. Ruth has been involved in peace and justice for women for over 40 years. She has raised women's consciousness through her work around women in science. Writer, activist, feminist, Ruth has been an example of a life lived to make the world a better place for others, especially women.
Jeanne Gallo <gritarenow@yahoo.com>
Gloucester, MA USA - Thursday, July 15, 2004 at 10:15:09 (CDT)

Winona LaDuke, is an Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg and is the mother of three children. Winona is the Program Director of Honor the Earth and Founding Director of White Earth Land Recovery Project. Leading Honor the Earth she provides vision and leadership for the organization’s Regranting Program and its Strategic Initiatives. In addition, she has worked for two decades on the land issues of the White Earth Reservation, including litigation, over land rights in the 1980's. In 1989, she received the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which in part she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1994, Winona was nominated by Time Magazine as one of America's fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age, and has also been awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the Ann Bancroft Award, MS Woman of the Year Award (with the Indigo Girls in 1997), the Global Green Award, and numerous other honors. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. Her books include: Last Standing Woman (fiction), All Our Relations (non-fiction), In the Sugarbush (Children's), and just out, the Winona LaDuke Reader.
Michele "Shelly" Vendiola <msvendiola@comcast.net>
Bellingham, WA USA - Thursday, July 15, 2004 at 09:51:22 (CDT)

sleater-kinney: Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss. This Portland band energizes peace and activism by rocking out and writing intelligent, passionate songs about peace, community, and change. Their powerful song of dissent "Combat Rock" was included in the compilation, Peace Not War. Check out the lyrics to "Combat Rock" from their 2002 release, One Beat. "Will you come knocking on my door? Pull me pick me off the floor I might need something to get me going Feel it one time IT ROLLS dig it When I feel worn out when I feel beaten Like a used up shoe or a cake half-eaten There's only one way to keep on feeling Move it up one time IN TIME dig it This mama works till her back is sore But the baby's fed and the tunes are pure So you'd better get your feet on the floor Move it up one time TO THE BEAT These times are troubled these times are rough There's more to come but you can't give up Why don't you shake a tail for peace and love Move it up one time FOR LOVE JANET CARRIE CAN YOU FEEL IT Knife through the heart of our exploitation LADIES ONE TIME CAN YOU HEAR IT Disassemble our discrimination When violence rules the world outside And the headlines make me want to cry It's not the time to just keep quiet Speak up one time TO THE BEAT"
Aireen Joven <groovespring@aol.com>
Chicago, IL USA - Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 14:43:13 (CDT)

Edith Ballantyne is a major contributor to the world peace movement and the United Nations. For 25 years she was Secretary General of the women's International League for Peace and Freedom. In 1993 until just recently she was the International WILPF president. A Sudeten German refugee aided by WILPF'S Canada section during World War II she played a leadership role in the NGO community at the U. N.
joan ecklein <joan.ecklein>
newton, ma USA - Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at 16:50:19 (CDT)

Ann Braden has been at the forefront for the fight for racial justice and human rights for over half a century . She is a southern woman who broke with the racist traditions she grew up with and has given her adult life to this struggle. Ann Braden continues to be a role model to generations of peace and justice activists. Her tremendous courage and commitment to racial justice has enabled extraordinary changes throughout the United States but especially in the South.
joan ecklein <joan.ecklein@umb.edu>
newton, ma USA - Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at 16:47:30 (CDT)

JOAN ECKLEIN has spent much of her life working for peace and justice issues. She is currently co- chair of Boston Womens' International League for Peace and Freedom. She retired from teaching at an a progressive, experimental working class college, the College of Public and Community Service at U. Mass,/Boston to work full time as an organizer to revitalize the WILPF branch in Boston. As a teenager in the 1950's she accompanied her mother picketing the Hechts Department store to end restaurant segregation in Washington, D.C. Her high school years were spent trying to end the injustice of the Rosenberg case. She was active in the anti Viet Nam war movement and the anti-nuclear movement. She wrote a case book to train community organizers. She believed it was important for activists in the USA to understand the socialist world and lived and worked in East Germany studying the changing roles of men and women there.
Gretchen Klotz <littlepearl@rcn.com>
Waltham, MA USA - Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at 15:16:42 (CDT)

I think that GRACE BRUCE would be a great,noteworthy person to be included. The reason why is because Grace Bruce is the head supervisor of a church with a quarter known as St. Paul's Soup kitchen. St.Paul's Soup Kitchen is a place where homeless people can go and eat for free. The soup kitchen has been around for the last twenty years.Grace Bruce has been named the Champion of Brockton at least three times or more. She not only helps homeless and street people, she also helps many troubled youth especially the victims of child abuse cases. The people who have been helped by Grace never forget her and they are always paying her back whether it be financially, morally, or with kindness. As soon as you enter the soup kitchen, Grace is in charge. Grace is a born leader and she take charge of any situation.
Enid Cooper <eniddorian@yahoo.com>
Brockton, MA USA - Monday, July 12, 2004 at 16:18:02 (CDT)

Ione Biggs - tireless worker for peace and justice issues. Long time Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice member and WILPF board member. Winner Nelson Mandela award.
Debra Hirshberg <hirshbd@bp.com>
Cleveland, Oh USA - Tuesday, July 06, 2004 at 12:25:23 (CDT)

Granny "D" is a formidable elder and a tireless worker for peace and justice as well as an inspiring speaker. In 2000 at the age of 90 , she walked across the United States for Campaign Reform. This year, retracing her footsteps, she is registering voters that have not yet been reached, among them prostitutes and single women - two of the largest populations of unregistered voters. She is also running as a candidate for the U.S. Senate from New Hampshire.
Elisabeth Leonard <elisa_02128@yahoo.com>
East Boston, MA USA - Monday, July 05, 2004 at 21:01:39 (CDT)

Afaf Stevens is an Iraqi woman, born and raised in Baghdad, with undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Iraq.She has a Masters of Religion from Harvard and has begun a program called "Bridging East and West; A Peace Initiative." She is a teacher of peace and conflict resolution bringing East and West together twoard understanding each other at the deepest levels. Their resulting respect for each other helps them to recognize each other as comrades in the struggle for peace and justice in the world.
Elisabeth Leonard <elisa_02128@yahoo.com>
East Boston, MA USA - Monday, July 05, 2004 at 20:56:26 (CDT)

Diane Dujon is a former welfare recipient and has been in the front lines of the welfare struggle for more than 20 years. Currently she works as an educator at the UMBoston's College of Public and Community Service, having earned a M.S. in 1996. She is a well known speaker and writer and an active participant in Working Mass(a coalition of labor groups, the faith community, academics, community organizations, welfare rights and low income groups) "fighting for the rights of all workers."
Elsabeth Leonard <elisa_02128@yahoo.com>
East Boston, MA USA - Monday, July 05, 2004 at 20:49:34 (CDT)

Klare Allen is the epitome of an effective community activist. She knows of the need for Substantial Social Change from her humble beginnings on welfare and has literally educated herself and used her wonderful outgoing and generous nature to be one of the foremost environmentalist with a special interest in low-income communities. Spearheading the challenge to the bioweapons Lab level 4 in Roxbury/South Boston, she inspires all who see and here her to effective and energetic action.
Elisabeth Leonard <elisa_02128@yahoo.com>
East Boston, , MA USA - Sunday, July 04, 2004 at 18:39:56 (CDT)

O I nominate LOUISE DUNLAP, a long time peace activist, whose peaceful and dedicated nature informs all that she does. She has taught writing at Tufts University as well as a popular people's course in writing for social change.Her Yoga Classes help activists find the inner strength to be effective nonviolent workers. Louise appears at most peace and justice actitivities, usually with a bundle of War Times to be given freely to other participants.
Elisabeth Leonard <elisa_02128@yahoo.com>
Boston, MA USA - Sunday, July 04, 2004 at 18:30:37 (CDT)

ROSALIE BERTELL is President of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health (IICPH), and Editor in Chief of International Perspectives in Public Health. Dr. Bertell served four years as Co-chair for Canada on the Ecosystem Health Workgroup of the Science Advisory Board to the US - Canada International Joint Commission (IJC) on the Great Lakes, and currently serves on the IJC Nuclear Task Force. She also serves as advisor to the Great Lakes Health Effects Program of Health Canada, and to the Environmental Assessment Board of Ontario. She directed the International Medical Commission - Bhopal which investigated the aftermath of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, and of the International Medical Commission - Chernobyl, which convened the Tribunal on violations of the human rights of victims in Vienna, April 1996. Dr. Bertell is a member of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart.
Gretchen Klotz <littlepearl@rcn.com>
Waltham, MA USA - Sunday, July 04, 2004 at 16:48:34 (CDT)

EVA QUISTORP has more than 27 years of women's peace work on the German, European and global level. She began working in the student movement of Berlin, went on to the Women's movement in Germany, participated in the anti-nuclear power and ecology movement, became a member of the German Greens and the anti-nuclear weapons movement. With Petra Kelly she founded Women for Peace in Germany.
Gretchen Klotz <littlepearl@rcn.com>
Waltham, MA USA - Sunday, July 04, 2004 at 16:44:03 (CDT)

KATHY KELLY, founder of Voices in the Wilderness, who has led numerous trips to Iraq over the years and was in Iraq the full time of the major bombing during this current war. She has tirelessly given speaking tours, first about the sanctions in Iraq, and then about the war. She has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times. The U.S. Government has attempted to fine Voices in the Wilderness for their "illegal" trips to Iraq several times.
Sue Ann <mart1408@umn.edu>
Minneapolis, MN USA - Saturday, July 03, 2004 at 18:37:53 (CDT)

Sonia Sanchez, mother, activist, poet, teacher, playwright, mentor, warrior, friend. Sonia Sanchez taught one of the first Black studies courses in the nation at San Francisco State University. Her poetry which spans four decades has consistently spoken about peace and liberating women (all people) from the patriarchal discourse of the Other. Sanchez has remained on the battlefield fighting for racial, social, and sexual justice here on earth.
Jamie D. Walker <jamiedwalker@howard.edu>
Washington, DC USA - Thursday, July 01, 2004 at 21:46:46 (CDT)

Amy Goodman, host of independent radio show Democracy Now. She is probably the best radio broadcaster/journalist/interviewer in the country, and daily brings to our attention the news that no corporate media covers. Her contribution to our work for peace is invaluable.
karen bercovici <kberco@noho.com>
northampton, MA USA - Thursday, July 01, 2004 at 08:50:00 (CDT)

Grace Paley: Lifelong feminist activist, writer and teacher. Grace has been at the center of activism for peace, women's rights and social justice for mayber 60 years and bravely continues to raise the issue of gender and war/violence.
karen bercovici <kberco@noho.com>
northampton, MA USA - Thursday, July 01, 2004 at 08:43:39 (CDT)

I would like to nominate ELISABETH LEONARD. She has been working for peace and justice since the Vietnam War. She is at every vigil and behind just about forum for peace. She works diligently and cheerfully for peace and justice at her job, with the Quaker Friends, as the co-chair of the local WILPF chapter, on the local board of United for Justice and Peace, and currently on the Boston Social Forum. As equally committeed to the struggle for women's rights. ---- She is Boston's Granny D.
Virginia Pratt <vpratt@esacboston.org>
Jamaica Plain, MA USA - Wednesday, June 30, 2004 at 21:26:19 (CDT)

Shelagh Foreman has been working for peace, with Massachusetts Peace Action and before that Sane/Freeze, for many years, organizing, vigiling, writing, and speaking, on such issues as nuclear weapons, missile defense, the war in Colombia, etc.
Eva S. Moseley <esmoseley@mindspring.com>
Cambridge, MA USA - Wednesday, June 30, 2004 at 16:35:13 (CDT)

Kate Fearon - Irish activist
Andre Sheldon <andresez@rcn.com>
Newton, USA - Tuesday, June 29, 2004 at 13:16:20 (CDT)

Shiva, Vandana - Native of India, Activist, Biologist
Andre Sheldon <andresez@rcn.com>
Newton, MA USA - Tuesday, June 29, 2004 at 13:15:03 (CDT)

Dr. Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi - Well known Palestinian spokesperson
Andre Sheldon <andresez@rcn.com>
Newton, MA USA - Tuesday, June 29, 2004 at 13:08:22 (CDT)

Cora Weiss - Chair of the Hague Appeal for Peace
Andre Sheldon <andresez@rcn.com>
Newton, USA - Tuesday, June 29, 2004 at 13:03:46 (CDT)

Starhawk - always a visionary, always in protest or demonstration for a better world in which feminist principles lead and patriarchal practices diminish, sometimes in jail, Starhawk is impossible to pigeonhole as simply a writer. Go to her website, www.starhawk.com , and see for yourself. Reading the excerpt from one of her latest books, Travelers Tales From Possible, filled me with a great yearning for the possibilities of the future and what we can make it.
Lizzy Poole <lizzyp@ecoisp.com>
Kittery, ME USA - Monday, June 28, 2004 at 13:11:29 (CDT)

Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, Co-founders Code Pink, Women for Peace Medea Benjamin, Founding Director of Global Exchange Human Rights organization see: http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/speakers/profiles Jodie Evans orchestrated the Democratic Presidential Bid of Jerry Brown, culminating in a rousing speech at the Dem Natl. Convention in 92. She also co-convened the Shadow Convention in 2000 with Arianna Huffington and recently wrote a compilation of essays entitled: Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation. For more on Ms.Evans, see: http://www.badbabes.org/bio.html Benjamin and Evans have traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan and Juarez for Womens Peace mobilizatin in addition to organizing a 10,000 women march in DC prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. See codepinkalert.org for more info on Code Pink.
Lora O'Connor <lora@codepinkalert.org>
San Rafael, CA USA - Monday, June 28, 2004 at 03:59:04 (CDT)

BARBARA EHRENREICH is a political essayist and social critic who tackles a diverse range of issues in books and magazine articles. She is the author or co-author of twelve books including Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class, Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War, Nickle and Dimed: Surviving in Low-Wage America.
Gretchen Klotz <littlepearl@rcn.com>
Waltham, MA USA - Thursday, June 24, 2004 at 13:55:36 (CDT)

MOLLY IVINS is a syndicated columnist and author based in Texas. She has coined the term Great Liberal Backlash of 2003 to describe herself and fellow authors critical of the GW Bush administration. Some of her wonderful books are: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? (1992) Shrub: The short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush (2000) with Lou Dubose, The Betrayal of America : How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President (2001) with Vincent Bugliosi, Sugar's Life in the Hood: The Story of a Former Welfare Mother (2002) with Sugar Turner & Tracy Bachrach Ehlers, Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron (2002), Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America (2003) with Lou Dubose
Gretchen Klotz <littlepearl@rcn.com>
Waltham, MA USA - Thursday, June 24, 2004 at 12:47:15 (CDT)

Specioza Kazibwe - Physician, First women vice-president of an African Nation
Andre Sheldon
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 22:08:20 (CDT)

Kim Gandy - President of NOW
Andre Sheldon
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 22:05:14 (CDT)

Robin Morgan Feminist writer and activist
Andre Sheldon
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 22:01:14 (CDT)

Sister Helen Prejean Death Penalty Abolition activist
Andre Sheldon
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 22:00:47 (CDT)

Shiva, Vandana - Native of India, Activist, Biologist
Andre Sheldon
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 22:00:30 (CDT)

Coretta Scott King
Andre Sheldon
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 21:59:47 (CDT)

Kavita N. Ramdas – Global Fund for Women
Andre Sheldon
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 21:59:24 (CDT)

Mary Day Kent – exec dir – WILPF
Andre Sheldon
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 21:59:07 (CDT)

Maya Angelou - Famous Poet
Andre Sheldon
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 21:58:33 (CDT)

Marion Wright Edelman - Children’s Defense Fund - Founder - Civil Rights activist the premier advocate for children in the U.S.
Andre Sheldon
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 21:58:02 (CDT)

Mary Robinson – UN Human Rights, former President of Ireland
Andre Sheldon
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 21:57:44 (CDT)

Kim Campbell – Chair of the World Council of World Leaders, former Prime Minister of Canada
Andre Sheldon
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 21:56:52 (CDT)

Eve Ensler - Founder of V-Day and author of the Vagina Monologues
Andre Sheldon
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 21:55:49 (CDT)

Queen Noor - Founded numerous initiatives for children and peace.
Andre Sheldon
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 21:55:02 (CDT)

Noeleen Heyzer - Director of UNIFEM
Andre Sheldon <andresez@rcn.com>
Newton, MA USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 21:53:26 (CDT)

Rev. Joan Brown Campbell - Chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women, World Council of Religious Leaders
Andre Sheldon <andresez@rcn.com>
Newton, MA USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 21:51:59 (CDT)

Arudhati Roy - author from India - Keynote speaker at WSF
Andre Sheldon <andresez@rcn.com>
Newton, MA USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 21:47:53 (CDT)

Barbara Lott-Holland, a 35 year resident of Los Angeles, 25 years bus transit dependent, mother of four, grandmother of nine is Co-Chair of the Bus Riders Union, Los Angeles. As a black woman civil rights leader, she fights for peace and justice on a daily basis. The Bus Riders Union (BRU) is class representative for 500,000 transit dependent public transportation riders, as a result of an historic 10 year Civil Rights Consent Decree with the Los Angeles MTA, settling a lawsuit charging racial discrimination in public transportation in Los Angeles. She is co-coordinator of the Atlanta/Los Angeles sister city project, sponsored by the Turner Foundation, to help civil rights, labor, environmental, and mass transit groups in Atlanta develop a mass transit social justice campaign. Delegate and workshop speaker at the National Organizers’ Alliance African American Organizer Convention, Atlanta, 2000, and is co-author of "An Environmental Justice Strategy for Urban Transportation in Atlanta: Lessons and Observations from Los Angeles." An NGO delegate (representing the Labor/Community Strategy Center) to the World Conference on Sustainable Development, she joined women from around the world, particularly other Black women from throughout the African diaspora in the demand "US, STOP!" She is a co-author of "Toward a Program of Resistance: We Make these Demands Against US Imperialism."
Lian Hurst Mann <lianhurstmann@mindspring.com>
Los Angeles, CA USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 16:53:26 (CDT)

Cynthia Rojas, a Community Organizer with the Bus Riders Union (BRU)in Los Angeles, is a leader and role model for all women, particularly young women of color in the US as she fights locally for global peace and justice. She is Director of Clean Air Clean Lungs Clean Buses and Stop Global Warming campaigns, staff member of the BRU Planning Committee, help coordinate the participation of 250 active members and 3,000 dues paying members in actions, organizing drives, and strategy meetings, supervise five to eight organizers, on-the-bus organizing and member recruitment, media spokesperson for the BRU, written and verbal Spanish to English to Spanish translation for monthly membership meetings, planning committee meetings and for materials for organizing work. Youth representative and spokesperson for the International Steering Committee of the Global People’s Forum, 2002 UN World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Lian Hurst Mann <lianhurstmann@mindspring.com>
Los Angeles, CA USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 16:36:46 (CDT)

HELLO ALL - I am new to this forum but can think of two women that I would recommend that might be a bit off the usual list. The first is
JULIANNA FORBES - one of the Founders of MothersActingUp. Julianna has been a passionate advocate of harnessing the social and political power of mothers to protect ALL children. You can read more about her on the website - mothersactingup.com. Another woman I think has done tremendous work over many decades is the singer/activist
HOLLY NEAR. My organization, Mothersuniting is bringing Holly in to Keene to do workshops and a concert/conversation in Oct. Don't know if these are at the right level - somewhere between most of us and mother theresa I guess. Thanks, Susan Hay
Susan Hay <mothersuniting@yahoo.com>
Keene, nh USA - Monday, June 21, 2004 at 15:34:38 (CDT)

Elise Boulding a tireless advocate and worker for many years to create a Culture of Peace. Her workshops, Visioning a World World Without Weapons, her teaching at Dartmouth College and the University of Colorado, her participation in WILPF, nationally and internationally, have established her as a world wide model for peace activism.
elisabeth leonard <elisa_02128@yahoo.com>
Boston., MA USA - Saturday, June 19, 2004 at 16:51:27 (CDT)

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