MARCIA MATTHEWS'S PEACE LISTS
HEROES
Jesus of Nazareth (the "Sermon on the Mount")
Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)
Adin Ballou (1803-1890)
William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879)
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Oscar Romero (1917-1980)
Cesar Chavez (1927-1994)
Nelson Mandela (1918--)
Dalai Lama (1935--)
Jimmy Carter (1924--)
Varian Fry (1907-1967) rescued refugees from Marseilles during the Holocaust.
Oscar Schindler (1908-1974) saved almost 1100 Jews during the Holocaust.
HEROINES
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) abolitionist, "Ain't I a Woman?"
Abby Kelley Foster (1811-1887) women's rights pioneer and abolitionist
Mother Jones, Mary Harris (1837-1930) Union Labor organizer
Jane Addams (1860-1935) Hull House
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) "The Declaration of Human Rights"
Dorothy Day (1897-1980), "The Catholic Worker"
Mother Teresa (1910-1997) "the poorest of the poor"
Nadine Gordimer (1923--) South African anti-apartheid novelist
Amy Goodman (1957--) "Democracy Now" radio program
Cindy Sheehan (1957--) "Peace Mom"
Rigaberto Menchu (1959--) Guatemalan Peace Activist
TOP TEN PEACE SONGS
Living with War, Neil Young
Bring the Boys Home, Freda Payne
Save the Country, by Laura Nyro (performed by the Fifth Dimension)
War (What Is It Good For?), Edwin Starr
Waiting on the World to Change, John Mayer
Love Is My Religion, Ziggy Marley
Better Way, Ben Harper
Everybody Wake Up, Dave Matthews Band
Lay Down (Candles in the Rain), Melanie Safka
New: What Are We Fighting For?, Live
MOVIES ABOUT PEACE
La Grande Illusion (1938, French and German, Jean Renoir. Two French prisoners plot to escape POW camp)
The Flowers of St. Francis (1950, R. Rosselini and F. Fellini)
Gandhi (1982, the life of India's liberator)
Babette's Feast (1987, Danish)
The Long Walk Home (1990, AL bus boycott, Civil Rights Movement)
Kundun (1997, Dalai Lama)
El Bola (2003, Spanish, father-son dispute)
Darshan: the Embrace (2004 documentary by Jan Kounen about India's hugging saint Amma)
The Long Voyage (2004, French, father-son relationship in Islamic culture)
The Chorus (2004, French, about a teacher in reform school)
After Innocence (2005, Dennis Maher)
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