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Occupy Wall Street, Day 10: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world

One of Wangari Maathai’s most powerful political actions was when she and a group of women occupied Uhuru (Freedom) Park in downtown Nairobi, to protest government plans to turn the tree-lined public park into a giant private office complex. At first it was just twenty women with hand-painted signs, sitting down together in the center [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on September 27, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on September 27, 2011

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/occupy-wall-street-day-10-never-doubt-that-a-small-group-of-thoughtful-committed-citizens-can-change-the-world/

Wangari Maathai’s Canopy of Hope: remembering a warrior woman for the planet and role model for us all

Kenyan Wangari Maathai, who died last night of ovarian cancer, was a woman who took everything she learned and used it for the benefit of her local community and the planetary community as a whole. As a girl, she used to sit by a certain fig tree that grew near her family village.  Beside the [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on September 26, 2011  •  Permalink
Posted in Activism, Alternative Futures, Community, Education, Environment, Health, Human Rights, New stories, Politics of Gender, privilege, Resilience, Violence
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on September 26, 2011

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/wangari-maathai-warrior-woman-for-the-planet-role-model-for-us-all/

Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dies at 71 – NYTimes.com

Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dies at 71 – NYTimes.com. Truly a great leader, I can’t believe she is gone.  So fast!  I can’t help but think that had she been living in the West, the cancer would have been caught earlier and she would still be with us.  A great loss for the [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on September 26, 2011  •  Permalink
Posted in Activism, Community, Environment, Mentoring, Politics, Politics of Gender, Resilience
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on September 26, 2011

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