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BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF THE
PERSHING PLOWSHARES
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Per Herngren,
22, from Sweden, has been working with the Syracuse (N.Y.) Peace
Council since August 1983. A member of a Congregational church in
Sweden and a full-time peaceworker, he has worked in both Sweden and
the U.S. organizing nonviolent actions against the arms race. |
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Todd S. Kaplan,
26, currently lives in Washington, D.C. and staffs a shelter for
homeless families. He has spent nine years working at various peace,
reconciliation, and service communities in Washington, D.C., Michigan,
and Israel. He descri bes himself as a fai thful Jew struggling to
follow God's call to bring Shalom (Peace) and Tzedekah (Justice) to
this world. |
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Tim Lietzke,
32, from Richmond, Virginia, is a peace activist and a member of the
Community of the Servant. He is married to Elaine Shurie. He works
with the poor an1 the de-institutionalized, gardens, and writes.
Tim and Elaine
publish "Resistance in Hope," a newsletter for people in the Virginia
area. |
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Paul Magno,
Jr., 27,
is a member of a Catholic worker community in Washington, D.C. A 1978
graduate of Georgetown University, he is a longtime activist in the
nation's capital on behalf of social justice for the poor. |
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Anne Montgomery,
RSCJ, 57,
is a Religious of the Sacred Heart, belonging to the Aletheia
Community in New York City. She has taught adolescents and children
for over 30 years, most recently as a learning disabilities teacher in
East Harlem. Since 1978 she has been increasingly challenged by the
connections between the nuclear arms race, the children she teaches,
and the violence anD poverty of the city, to the service of reSistance
and nonviolence, and thus to acts of Divine Obedience. |
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Patrick O'Neill,
28, is a
peace activist from Greenville, N.C. A student at North Carolina
Central University, he is also a member of the Greenvill Peace
Committee and sits on the steering committee of the Catholic Diocese
of Raleigh's Peace and Justice Committee. He is a free-lance writer
and has written for several North Carolina newspapers. |
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James Perkins,
45, taught high school social studies from 1061-1968 and founded and
directed the Manhattan County School Farm, offering farm family
environment, skills, and values to inner-city children. He spent six
months practicing prayer and meditation at Doshinji Monastery,
Mt. Tremper, N.Y.
before becoming part of a war resistance community
in Maryland. He has
five children.
Christin Marie
Schmidt,
24, is a
resident of the state of Rhode Island. A former history student at the
University of Rhode Island, she is a full-time activist for peace and
justice. She is currently living in a resistance community in Maryland |
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