Peg Morton (1930–2015)
Auteur van Walk with me : nonviolent accompaniment in Guatemala
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Morton, Margaret Miner
- Geboortedatum
- 1930-10-30
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2015
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Eugene, Oregon, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Eugene, Oregon, USA
- Beroepen
- peace activist
war protestor
tax resister - Organisaties
- CISCAP (Committee in Solidarity with the Central American People)
LASC (Latin America Solidarity Committee)
Women in Black
Carbondale Friends Meeting
Southern Illinois Friends Meeting
Eugene Friends Meeting - Korte biografie
- Peg Morton was a dedicated peace activist. In 2004, well into her seventies, she served a three-month sentence in federal prison for civil disobedience, for trespassing during a protest outside Fort Benning, Ga. The Army complex there is home to a military school used to train foreign soldiers, whom Morton and other opponents contend later went on to commit rape, murder and other crimes.
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Walk with Me: Nonviolent Accomaniment in Guatemala door Peg Morton
Accompaniment takes many forms, from sitting in union, human rights, and other offices to accompanying threatened individuals. The author invites us to enter the lives of people of other cultures and colors and of those who have been forced into poverty.
After learning about the destruction caused in Central America with the military and economic support, training and participation of the U.S. government, and learning of the holocaust which had taken place in Guatemala, the author participated in the international accompaniment movement in Guatemala.
Informative, interesting, and moving, this pamphlet is about the nonviolent accompaniment carried on by Peace Brigades International, Witness for Peace, Friends Peace Teams, and others, to provide safety and support for nonviolent activists for justice in various places around the world. It is specifically about the author's experience as an accompanier in Guatemala in 1994.
Morton also addresses the meaning for her, as North American, of this opportunity to support and learn from courageous, nonviolent and poor Guatemalan campesino refugees, as they returned to their land, from which they had been brutally driven by the Guatemalan military supported by U.S. government policies.
She concludes that there are no borders blocking oppression, and as she supports these Guatemalans seeking justice, she will also live and work in her own community in North America in solidarity with the homeless, the workers, the discriminated against, the poor.… (meer)
Morton also addresses the meaning for her, as North American, of this opportunity to support and learn from courageous, nonviolent and poor Guatemalan campesino refugees, as they returned to their land, from which they had been brutally driven by the Guatemalan military supported by U.S. government policies.
She concludes that there are no borders blocking oppression, and as she supports these Guatemalans seeking justice, she will also live and work in her own community in North America in solidarity with the homeless, the workers, the discriminated against, the poor.… (meer)
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- #370,100
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