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Remembering Taylor

I’ve been absent from this blog for nearly a year, during which I underwent some surgery and then moved out of the 3rd-floor walk-up where I’d lived for 37 years to a garden apartment in another part of Brooklyn. I’m finally recovered and settled, more or less, and ready to write again. It’s good to be back! It seems fitting that … Read More

LIFE AMONG THE TREE-CREATURES: From Personal to Political

I have a lifelong soul-deep connection with trees. It began in rural America where I grew up, and deepened in New York City, my chosen home. COUNTRY TREES At … Read More

Women and Kids Form a “Living Petition” for Free Speech

After Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Act in June 1917, it became illegal for U.S. citizens to express “disloyalty” when the nation was at war. WITCH-HUNT FOR … Read More

Painting by Charly Palmer

LEGACY OF LITTLE ROCK

September 4, 1957 was supposed to be the first day of school for nine black students with good grades and superb coping skills, selected to help Arkansas comply with … Read More

Women in Pretoria Shout “You Have Struck a Rock!”

In Pretoria, on August 9, 1956, 20,000 women stood for a full thirty minutes in silence. It is said that even the babies … Read More

Hiroshima’s Children Remember Sadako

On the clear, sunny morning of August 6, 1945, a United States airplane, the Enola Gay, suddenly appeared in the sky … Read More

Mother Jones Makes a Hot July Hotter

Mary Harris Jones lost everything. Everything! When the Civil War ended, she was eager to raise her family in peace, … Read More

Ireland’s “Pill Train” X2

In 1971, no one could have imagined that Ireland would have a pro-contraceptive female president (Mary Robinson) by … Read More

Pam McAllister

In 1982, I edited the anthology Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence and then wrote two books about women’s use of resistance and action: You Can't Kill the Spirit and This River of Courage.

I've spent a lifetime compiling stories of courageous, creative actions, categorizing them (a la Gene Sharp), writing books and articles, speaking at university forums, church retreats, feminist conferences. I’ve also joined in the action -- antiwar protests in the '70s, Take Back the Night marches in the '80s, prison reform rallies in the '90s, and Occupy Wall Street actions in recent years.

I am currently researching more examples of nonviolent action for peace and justice around the world for two new books -- one for/about children and another about women (whose actions are still so often left out or overlooked).

Here I am with Barbara Deming, my mentor and friend, in Sugarloaf Key in the early ‘80s. The photo has faded, but the memories and love have not.

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