Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox
March 1, 2015
GUEST: DAVID HARTSOUGH
TOPIC: WAGING PEACE
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"David Hartsough knows how to get in the way. He has used his body to
block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on
their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet
“the enemy” in East Berlin, Castro’s Cuba, and present-day Iran. He has
marched with mothers confronting a violent regime in Guatemala and stood
with refugees threatened by death squads in the Philippines.
Hartsough’s stories inspire, educate, and encourage readers to find ways
to work for a more just and peaceful world. Inspired by the examples of
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., Hartsough has spent his life
experimenting with the power of active nonviolence. Engaging stories on
every page provide a peace activist’s eyewitness account of many of the
major historical events of the past 60 years, including the Civil
Rights and anti–Vietnam War movements in the United States as well as
the little-known but equally significant nonviolent efforts in the
Soviet Union, Kosovo, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. Waging Peace
is a testament to the difference one person can make; however, it is
more than one man’s memoir: it shows how this struggle is waged all over
the world by ordinary people committed to ending the spiral of violence
and war."
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