US PEACE REGISTRY
A publication of the
US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc.
The US Peace
Registry recognizes and
documents the activities of US citizens and organizations that have opposed
and/or resisted American military solutions, rather than diplomacy, to solve
international problems. It is
hoped that these role models for peace will inspire new generations of
Americans to speak out against war.
The specific behaviors listed under each record are intended to provide
ideas and guidance to others citizens so that peace/antiwar behaviors can be replicated nationwide.
The US Peace
Registry is published on
the US Peace Memorial Foundation website.
It is expected that a hard copy of the Registry will eventually be
printed as a reference book and be displayed electronically for public viewing
at the US Peace Memorial in Washington DC.
Registrants have
provided peace activism-related biographical information, with supporting
documentation (see individual application and organization
application for requirements), which was reviewed by the Foundation
staff. Those applications vetted
and verified, were approved by the Foundation's Board of Directors for inclusion in this
publication.
Successful
registrants and Foundation members are asked to nominate others for inclusion
in the Registry and to provide contact information. In addition, the Foundation has directly invited individuals
and organizations that have well known anti-war reputations to submit
biographical information.
As seen in the entries below, a brief description of the
registrant is followed by his or her anti-war/peace activities listed in
chronological order from oldest to most recent. In addition to recognizing role models,
the US Peace Registry documents a broad
range of specific peace and antiwar behaviors. These are shown in bold to highlight the wide variety
of activities that have occurred throughout the years. Some of the entries may serve as models
for future peace actions that can help to prevent and/or end US wars.
INDIVIDUALS
David Adams, PhD, a resident of Branford, CT, promotes the Global
Movement for a Culture of Peace, called for by the UN General Assembly in its
Resolution A/53/243. mail@decade-culture-of-peace.org
Author, Psychology for Peace Activists,
1985.
Organizer, Seville Statement on Violence, 1986.
Organizer of the Peoples Peace
Appeal, 1986.
Author, The American Peace
Movements, 1986.
Consultant for the project of the UNESCO Culture of Peace
Program, 1992-1993.
Staff, UNESCO Culture of Peace Program responsible for
national programs in El Salvador, Mozambique and Russia, 1994-1997.
Director, United Nations International Year for the Culture
of Peace, 1998-2001.
Webmaster, Culture
of Peace News Network http://cpnn-usa.org,
Culture of Peace Information site http://culture-of-peace.info, and World Report on the
Culture of Peace http://decade-culture-of-peace.org,
since 2001.
Anne Anderson, MSW is a social worker who has worked on peace and social justice issues
for most of her life. She is the
mother of three and grandmother of two living and working in Washington,
DC. mobileanne@earthlink.net
Demonstrated at the White House frequently against the Vietnam War, organized
marches, raised money, passed out leaflets, and provided child
care while others demonstrated as a member
of the Committee to Defend the Conspiracy, Washington, DC, 1969-1975.
Developed and led the workshop, "Living Politics" to help people explore their
understanding of complex crisis situations (including war) in the early 1980's.
Executive Director
of Psychologists for Social Responsibility (www.psysr.org),
an organization that uses psychological knowledge and
skills to promote peace with social justice, 1984-2006.
Michael Andregg, Ph.D. of St. Paul, Minnesota is a teacher who left medical
genetics in 1980 because he thought war was a larger public health hazard than
rare diseases he worked on then, which remains true. mmandregg@stthomas.edu
Led a caravan to the UN Special Session on Nuclear Disarmament in 1981.
Founding member of the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, 1995.
Wrote a book, On the Causes of War that won the National Peace
Writing award in 1999, has been translated
into Italian and reprinted in Canada, 1997.
University lectures on causes
of war and global problems related to
war at the University of Minnesota, 1981
to present and the University of St. Thomas, 1993 to present.
Coordinating peace activists and others to be involved in responding to the 2008
Republican National Convention, 2007 to present.
John Arnaldi, Ph.D. a resident of Tampa, FL, has been involved in peace work since high
school (late 1960's) including demonstrations and letters to the editor and
congressional representation.
Applied for conscientious objector status during the Vietnam War.
Member of the Tampa Meeting of the Religious Society of
Friends (Quakers) where he serves as Clerk of the Peace and Social Concerns
Committee, 2005 to present.
On the first anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq, helped organize
a peace demonstration in front of Fox 13
TV station challenging all news media to do honest reporting about the war,
2004
Coordinated the AFSC Eyes Wide Open exhibit in Tampa. Eyes Wide Open is a memorial display of boots for each U.S. soldier killed in Iraq,
shoes representing the civilian deaths, and an educational exhibit, http://www.afsc.org/eyes, 2004
Helped organize a memorial service in Tampa for the 60th anniversary of the
U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 2005.
Founded a Web Site, www.JesusPrinceofPeace.org to
provide education and inspiration about peacemaking to Christians and to teach
strategic nonviolent actions for peacemaking, 2005.
Marched on Washington
to End the War on Iraq, 9/24/05.
Coordinated the visit to Tampa of an Iraqi pharmacist, Entisar Ariabi,
sponsored by Code-PinkÕs the Women Say No to War
campaign. Held a
press conference, set up radio
interviews and an in-depth newspaper
interview, met with staff of
Senators Bill Nelson and Mel Martinez,
April 2006.
Coordinated a public program on Healthcare in Iraq since the invasion at the
University of South Florida College of Public Health, April 2006.
Wrote letters to
senators, congressmen, leadership in both houses, and the President, calling
for an immediate cease-fire in the Israeli attack on Lebanon, July 2006.
Letter to the Editor,
Tampa Tribune calling for a cease-fire in the Israeli attack on Lebanon http://www.tbo.com/news/opinion/lettertotheeditor/MGBD95P37QE.html,
7/30/06.
Dick Bernard
of Woodbury, MN is a retired teachers union representative (NEA affiliate), a
military veteran (U.S. Army), husband, father, and grandfather of nine. Always oriented to peace and justice,
he became a peace activist with the US bombing of Afghanistan. dick_bernard@msn.com
Participated in many peace demonstrations since his first in October 2001 at the MN State
Capitol to protest the bombing of Afghanistan, 2001-2006.
Began a daily e-network that most often focuses on peace related topics, since 2001.
Published columns on peace and justice issues in major newspapers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul
area including this pre-Iraq War piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune
4/20/02 www.commondreams.org/views02/0420-02.htm, 2002-2006.
Member, Minnesota
Alliance of Peacemakers and other peace organizations, since 2002.
President,
Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers www.mapm.org, 2005-2007.
Created and maintained websites devoted to Peace and Justice: www.amillioncopies.info
and www.chez-nous.net/peace,
2002 to 2008.
Helped
organize a conference on peace during the Republican
National Convention peaceisland.us,
2008.
Linked
websites to other world peace resources,
2005-2008.
Warren J. Blumenfeld, Ed.D. is an Assistant Professor of Multicultural and
International Curriculum Studies at Iowa State University in Ames, IA. His research interests include
multiculturalism, Queer Studies, and issues of social justice. wblumen@iastate.edu
High school anti-war activist, 1964-65.
Organized and participated in anti-war activities against US involvement in
Vietnam including large-scale demonstrations protesting San Jose State University's involvement
in support of the war effort, demonstrated to end the military draft, and
helped organize a student strike
in opposition to the war, 1965-1970.
Member, Students
for a Democratic Society (SDS), a national organization opposing the war in
Vietnam, informed high school
students in the San Jose area of anti-war activities on the San JosŽ State
University campus, 1969-1970.
Organizer of the May Day demonstration (as a member of the Gay Liberation Front) which
brought together anti-war activists from across the US and Canada in an attempt
to shut down the federal government
in Washington, DC to voice opposition to the war in Vietnam, May 1971.
Arrested for
attempting to stage a sit-in in front of the South Vietnamese embassy as part
of an anti-war demonstration, May 1971.
Participated in an anti-war rally on Boston Common in Boston, MA in advance of US incursion
into Iraq, 1990.
Participated in a "Bring Home the Troops" demonstration to end the war in Iraq in Ames, IA, February 2006.
Lucy Bradley-Springer,
PhD, RN, ACRN, FAAN is a
nurse, educator, and director of a regional program to teach healthcare workers
about HIV infection. She is
a Vietnam-era veteran of the United States Air Force now living in Denver CO.
Developed and taught a series of classes entitled, "Dead Rats, Dan Rather, and ACT UP:
Social Contributions to Epidemics" that focused on the issues of
colonialism, war, racism, sexism, and classism and how those had historically
fed epidemics around the world, 1991-1995.
As president of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care,
published a President's Letter in the organization newsletter, post 9/11, on the problems related to responding
to violence with violence (ANACdotes, 2003).
Published anti-war editorial in Professional Journal: Collateral damages, Journal of the Association of
Nurses in AIDS Care, 19(2), 87-89, 2008.
Advisory Board member,
Physicians for Human Rights, 2003-2006.
Board of Directors, US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc. 2006-2009.
Beth Bradley Brookfield, of Reno Nevada, is an artist whose works of art often
reflect the human condition as it relates to the affects of war. Her paintings and sculptures can be
viewed at www.helloreno.com/art/BethBrookfield.Cfm. beth.brookfield@gmail.com
Rallied against potential military action in Iraq, Washington,
D.C., Spring 2003.
Participated in peace rallies in Reno, NV from 2005 to present.
Anti-war Letter to Editor, Reno News and Review, Spring 2007.
Created an ArtistÕs
conception of the US Peace Memorial that
is included on the Foundation's website at www.uspeacememorial.org/drawing2,
2008.
Noam Chomsky, PhD, LLD is the Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He has received numerous honorary
degrees from prestigious universities around the world and the Dorothy
Eldridge Peacemaker Award. Along with his significant work in the
field of linguistics, he is also widely known for his political
activism and criticism of U.S. foreign policy.
Wrote essay "The
Responsibility of Intellectuals," published in The New York Times
Review of Books, and became a leading opponent of the war in
Vietnam, 1967.
Chomsky participated in Vietnam war resistance activities, which he described in subsequent essays and letters
published in the New York Review of
Books, including withholding half of
his income tax and taking part in the 1967
march on the Pentagon.
He testified on the origins of the war, before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee chaired by J. William Fulbright,
1972.
Authored
books related to peace including:
Chomsky Reader, a collection of Chomsky's
critical essays on U.S. foreign policy, published 1987.
Rogue States: The Rule of Force
in World Affairs published 2000.
9-11 became a bestseller in
the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, published 2001.
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, published 2003.
America's Other War: Terrorizing Colombia, published 2005.
He has written numerous other
peace-related books and articles and has given hundreds of lectures and
speeches, some recorded on DVD and CD, since 1967.
See
Professor Chomsky's official website for
further information: http://www.chomsky.info.
Charles F. Clark, MD,
MPH served as a Captain in the Medical
Corps during the Vietnam War, a Lt Colonel with NATO, a psychiatrist with the
Tampa Veterans Administration Hospital, and currently practices psychiatry and
addiction medicine in Denver, CO.
Letter to the editor opposing invasion of Afghanistan before it occurred
(Boulder Daily Camera, 2002).
Emails to congressmen opposing war, since 2003.
Gives public presentations about long-term detrimental psychological impact of
combat on soldiers and the enormous dollar cost over many years of their care,
2004-2006.
Board of Directors, US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc. 2006-2009.
Bill Falcone
lives in Brandon, FL and has been a case manager with Hillsborough County since
1986 working with unemployed ex-felons, homeless, and the medically
indigent. He became involved in
the peace movement after the US invasion of Iraq. wfalcone14@hotmail.com
Member, United for
Peace and Justice, since 2005.
Member,
Hillsborough County Green Party, since 2005.
Participated in anti-war demonstration: "March on Washington - Tampa Bay",
09/24/05.
Sent many letters to congress members asking for their opposition to the war,
2003-2006.
Letter to the editor
regarding opposition to US unilateralism in foreign affairs, The Nation
09/26/05
Member, Buddhist
Peace Fellowship, since 2005.
Jim Glover
is a long-time peace activist and folk singer who lives in Brandon, FL. Part of the well-known 60s folk
duo, Jim and Jean. He describes himself as an old folk singer with
lots of drive to do liberal political activist songs in the tradition of Woody,
Pete, and Phil Ochs and says, "If you believe folk music has a mission to
help change the world, I'm your man."
Participated in peace demonstrations, including the March on the Pentagon on 10/22/67 to
protest the war in Vietnam.
Demonstrated at the Democrat National Convention in Chicago and entertained other
demonstrators, with Jean Glover and Phil
Ochs, at the Quiet Knight Coffee House during breaks in the protests, August
1968.
Peace-inspired Letter to the Editor, (St. Pete Times 9/28/01).
Wrote peace-related poem the day after 9/11 which he recited at a peace rally, September 2001.
Performs peace-related folk songs, since 1960s.
For further information see: jimglover.aesound.com
Mike Gravel, B.S.
served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1963-66, and as Speaker from
1965-66. He represented Alaska in
the U.S. Senate from 1969-81, serving on the Finance, Interior, and
Environmental and Public Works committees, and chairing the Energy, Water
Resources, Buildings and Grounds, and Environmental Pollution
subcommittees. He is a candidate
for the 2008 Democratic nomination for President
of the United States and lives in Virginia www.gravel2008.us.
Waged a successful one-man filibuster for five months that forced the Nixon
administration to end the military draft, 1971.
Released to the
media a top secret Defense Department study, ÒThe Pentagon PapersÓ that exposed decades of U.S. decision making regarding Vietnam that led the
country into War, 1971.
Began to read the 7000 page top-secret document into
the senate record insisting that his
constituents had a right to know about the lies and manipulations of successive
U.S. administrations that misled the country into the Vietnam War. The US Supreme Court ruled that he
couldnÕt release the information, 1971.
Published top-secret document as The Senator Gravel Edition of The
Pentagon Papers, Beacon Press www.beacon.org/client/pentagonpapers.cfm, 1971.
Appeared on TV (MSNBC) several times warning against the planned attack
on Iraq and stated that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, Iraq
was not a threat to the United States and had nothing to do with 9/11, 2002.
Anti-war Candidate for the 2008
Democratic nomination for President of the United States, 2007-2008.
Spoke at anti-war rallies, participated in nationally
televised debates, interviewed
by news media about his opposition to the
Iraq war, 2007-2008.
Warned against a planned attack on Iran during the Presidential debate at Dartmouth and called to account some of his
fellow Democratic presidential rivals for a vote that gave the Administration a
green light to attack Iran, 9/26/07.
Ian M. Harris, EdD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Policy and
Community Studies at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee and President of the International Peace Research
Association Foundation.
As a member of Resistance, participated in numerous
anti-Vietnam war marches and demonstrations, 1966 to 1976.
Taught first class in peace education, 1983.
Helped found the
Wisconsin Institute for Peace
and Conflict Studies, a statewide consortium of 23 colleges and universities
that promotes peace awareness with conferences, speakers' programs, and by
publishing The
Journal of Peace and Conflict
Studies, 1984.
Part of a faculty committee that established a peace
studies certificate program at UW-M, 1990.
Conducted a 14-day fast to protest U.S. involvement in Central America, 1990.
Ran the UW-M Summer
Institute on Nonviolence for adolescents,
Milwaukee, 1995-2002.
Member, Board of Directors of the Consortium of Peace Researchers, Educators and Developers (now
known as the Peace and Justice Studies Association) a nationwide organization
that supports peace studies on college campuses, 1996-1998.
Author of books and articles including: Peace Education (Jefferson, NC: McFarland
&Co., 1988), co-author (with Linda Forcey) of Peacebuilding for
Adolescents (London: Taylor and Francis,
1998), co-author (with Mary Lee Morrison) of Peace Education (2nd edition ) (Jefferson, NC: McFarland &Co., 2003), and over
50 articles on topics that range from violence in schools to peace education.
Secretary-General,
Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association,
helped create The Journal of Peace Education, 1998-2002.
President,
International Peace Research Association
Foundation (iprafoundation.org), 2003-2007.
Amy M. Holtz is a 6th grade Language Arts teacher and mother
of five living in Kalispell, MT.
She writes songs (especially about peace) and performs in her spare
time.
Anti-war Letter to Editor, The Independent,
Missoula, MT, March 6, 2003.
Wrote anti-war song ÒWe Must Choose PeaceÓ,
2003
Anti-war Letter to Editor, Missoulian, Missoula, MT, 5/5/03.
Performed anti-war music for the International Day of Peace, Caras Park, Missoula,
MT, 9/21/03.
Performed at an anniversary party
for the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, Missoula, MT,10/4/03.
Received the Father Hogan Peace
Award, Missoula, MT, November, 2003.
Opened for David Rovics (playing
for many area peace groups), Crystal Theater, Missoula, 02/24/04.
Anti-war Letter to Editor, Missoulian, Missoula, MT, 6/8/04.
Performed at the Second Annual
Festival of Peace, Arlee, Montana, 07/22/06.
Streaming audio performance of ÒWe Must Choose PeaceÓ at www.jrpc.org,
2006-2007.
Kimberly Raechelle Jenkins is a college student studying Peace and Social
Justice Studies at Berea College in Berea, KY. kimberlyraechelle@yahoo.com
Participated in a March on Washington to protest Bush's war in Iraq, January 2007.
Attended a Peace and
Justice Studies Association Conference at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, September 2007.
Del "Abe" Jones (The Poor Man's Poet) served in the United States Air Force 1958-1961
and is a retired sheet metal worker living in White Bluff, TN where he
writes poetry about current issues including the military/industrial complex
and war. abeabe@bellsouth.net
Wrote anti-war poems
including "Mister President" 7/17/07 and "Rum-De-Dum-DUMB"
7/10/07 posted at http://mywebpage.netscape.com/delabejones/page4.html.
Wrote "Let's build the US Peace Memorial" www.uspeacememorial.org/poem, 5/30/08
Signed petitions
to end the war in Iraq, to bring the troops home, and calling for impeachment
of Bush and Cheney, 2007-2008.
Lucinda Page Knox, MSW, ACSW is a freelance editor and writer and former social
worker currently living in Tampa, FL.
Member, Another
Mother for Peace, 1970-1975.
Participant in anti-war marches, 1969-1972.
Numerous letters and emails to congressional
representatives asking for an end to the
War in Iraq (Response letters on file), 2004-2006
Advisory Council Member, US Peace Memorial Foundation, 2005-2006.
Michael D. Knox, PhD, a licensed Clinical Psychologist, is a Distinguished Professor of
Mental Health Law and Policy, Medicine, Global Health, Aging Studies, and
Psychology at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. Knox@USPeaceMemorial.org
Delivered talk
against Vietnam War to a university class, 1965.
As a member of the Eastern Michigan University Student
Senate Executive Committee helped to organize anti-war demonstrations, 1966-1968.
As a delegate to the 20th National Student Congress of the
US National Student Association, drafted and
introduced a successful resolution to hold a demonstration on 8/23/67 in front of the White House in
opposition to the war in Vietnam, (resolution and report on file).
Anti- war letter (The
Progressive 9/1/69).
Ran anti-war advertisement in newspaper (Monroe Evening News, 11/15/69).
Helped start draft counseling center (Monroe
Evening News, 4/7/70).
Resigned in protest,
as member of Wayne County Republican Committee, GOP Advisory Board, and GOP
after Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia (The Progressive, 8/70
and Detroit News, 6/25/70).
Appointed as a member of the Classified Research Committee
of the University of Michigan to oversee secret Defense Department research at
the University 1970-1971. Disclosed
secret details of inappropriate research
to the Faculty Senate (The Michigan Daily, 2/9/71) and provided evidence that university researchers were "perfecting
weapon systems used by the military to kill and incapacitate other human beings"
(Science, 2/19/71).
Engaged in numerous speeches, debates, press conferences, and interviews (The Michigan Daily,
2/10,11,12,14,16,18/71; 3/9,10,12,14,16,17,18,21,24/71, 5/15/71, 11/19/71 and Detroit
Free Press, 2/22/71).
Prepared minority report documenting conflict of interest and inappropriate activities of the
Classified Research Committee and calling for an end to war research at
Michigan (Ann Arbor News, 3/8/71).
Provided consultation
to member Stanford University Committee on Research regarding publishing study
of classified research there (letters on file, 1971).
Resigned from
Classified Research Committee charging violation of new university research
policy (The Michigan Daily, 4/15/71).
Letter to the editor
documenting DOD research (Ann Arbor News, 4/20/72).
Anti-war letter to the editor (Ann Arbor News, 12/3/73).
Numerous anti Iraq war letters to the editor in local and
national publications (including Time
11/17/03 and USA Today 6/23/04), since
2003.
Made anti-war statements while delivering Plenary speech
at professional meeting (The Miami Herald and CNN, 3/28/04).
Published anti-war commentary in Professional Journal Journal of HIV and Social Services,
Vol. 4, 2005).
Made anti-war statements as part of opening address at annual medical conferences, 2006 and
2007.
Anti-war letters to Congressional delegation and
leadership, 2005-present.
Participated in emergency rally during rush hour at busy
intersection to protest Bush plan to send more soldiers to Iraq, Tampa,
1/11/07.
Anti Iraq war phone calls
to Congressional representatives, 2007.
Letters to Congressional representatives in opposition to attacking Iran, February 2007.
March from White House to Capitol building via Pennsylvania Avenue, ÒMother of a
MarchÓ with Cindy Sheehan and CODEPINK.
Helped block Independence Avenue traffic at Capitol Plaza for 45 minutes, Washington, DC,
05/14/07.
Awarded the Anthony J. Marsella Prize for the Psychology of Peace and Social Justice ÒFor more
than four decades of outstanding contributions to peace and humanitarian
assistanceÓ, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, San Francisco, CA,
8/18/07.
Letter to the Editor published regarding war related issue (torture), St. Petersburg Times,
www.sptimes.com/2007/10/21/Opinion/Today, 10/21/07.
Professional and community meeting presentations nationwide on the topics of Òcreating a culture of
peace: a first stepÓ, Òhonoring the peacemakersÓ and
Òpeace is socially acceptableÓ, 2006-present.
Founder and Chair,
US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc. 2005-present.
William A. McConochie,
Ph.D. of Eugene, Oregon is a research psychologist specializing in
political psychology studies.
Bill@Politicalpsychologyresearch.com
Clarified via research more than twenty psychological traits that relate to the
trait of warmongering and developed a rating scale for measuring the
warmongering-proneness of current and historical political and military leader,
Politicalpsychologyresearch.com,
2006.
Active member of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, for whom he
has drafted a new code of ethics for
psychologists who consider themselves pro-social and opposed to participating
in torture or other illegal activities ordered by employers, 2007.
Persuaded a Rotary International
community service committee to donate money and manpower to the new Nobel Peace Prize Monument project in Eugene,
Oregon, 2006.
Keith McHenry,
currently of Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, co-founded the Food Not Bombs movement in
1980. He has been arrested over
100 times for his work and faced life in prison. Amnesty International stated
he would be a ÒPrisoner of ConscienceÓ if convicted. keith@foodnotbombs.net
Designed political button "U.S. Out of El Salvador" for the
Committee in Solidarity with El Salvadore, www.consensus.net/illustrations7.html,
October 1979.
Cofounded
Food Not Bombs in Boston Massachusetts
www.foodnotbombs.net/keithbio.html, 5/24/80
First time arrested for sharing food at Golden Gate Park. www.foodnotbombs.net/keitharrest.html,
8/15/88.
Coauthor of the book Food Not Bombs, How to Feed the
Hungry and Build Community www.foodnotbombs.net/bookindex.html,
1992
Planned and participated in the ÒDrop Bush Not BombsÓ tour of Europe and the
Middle East speaking for peace in over 50 cities www.foodnotbombs.net/europe_tour.html
and www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2005/05/the_25th_annive.html,
October 2003 to January 2004.
Keynote speaker at
the Celebration of Gandhi's Birthday in Lagos, Nigeria. www.foodnotbombs.net/nigerian_photos.html,
10/02/05.
Barbara M. Nicholson,
MSW retired social worker in Sun City
Center, FL forming Windhunter Corporation with husband David to move planet
toward hydrogen use for energy to prevent wars for resources. dabonich@aol.com
Member, Womens' International League for Peace &
Freedom, Columbus, OH, 1958.
President WILPF Indiana Branch, 1968.
Responded to TV Editorial on anti-ballistic missile program, Indianapolis,
IN, 1968.
Helped organize retirees to
protest plans for Iraq War in Sun City
Center, FL, Jan-March 2002.
Organized Tampa4Kucinich and
Sun City Center4Kucinich groups, 2004.
Worn medallion,
Another Mother for Peace, since
Vietnam "War Is Not Healthy For Children and Other Living Things",
1966-Present.
Featured in newspaper article, "Gray-haired rebels with a cause", 2006
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/02/10/Brandontimes/Gray_haired_rebelswit.shtml.
Concepcion (Connie)
Picciotto calls 1601 Pennsylvania
Avenue her home, directly across the street from the White House. In 1981 she, and her colleagues,
began a vigil to protest nuclear arms and war. They have maintained a round-the-clock anti-war presence at this location for over a quarter century. concepcionpicciotto@yahoo.com
Demonstrates daily before the
White House for peace, since 1981.
Arrested and jailed by the US Park Police for "camping" 9/24/83.
Press coverage of her street peace vigil includes: Houston Chronicle, 3/13/83; New York Times, 9/7/84, 1/6/86; Washington Post, 12/19/82, 11/3/84, 5/10/85, 8/21/85, 8/24/85, 4/13/94,
12/22/94; USA Today, 8/23/85; and Washington
Times, 10/12/82, 3/10/83, 5/5/83, 8/8/84,
and 6/15/00.
Featured in the film Fahrenheit 9/11,
2004.
Listed in Wikipedia under
the category American activists.
Provides peace education to those who visit her display of signs and
literature or visit her on the web at www.prop1.org/conchita.
John M. Porter, MA, a social worker, lives and wo