Adelle Lutz

Overview

Adelle Lutz born New York, NY November 13, 1938. American costume designer and actress. As part of antiwar installation exhibit “The Peace Piece”, women in black burkhas walked from Battery Park to Times Square, protesting the Iraq war with slogans “90% OF WAR CASUALTIES ARE CIVILIANS”, 2003.

Quotations

“We walked shrouded to represent the nameless/voiceless/faceless who do not normally intersect with our lives. 90% of war casualties are civilians with the vast majority being women and children.” (“The Peace Piece”; photo as Aung San Suu Kyi, fanfix.famousfix.com)

M. Brinton Lykes

Overview

Margaret Brinton Lykes born New Orleans, LA March 3, 1949. Professor of Community-Cultural Psychology; recorded trauma of Guatemalan war.

Quotations

“As an anti-racist, feminist-activist scholar, I have been engaged in human rights and peacemaking efforts in Latin America, Northern Ireland, and South Africa, and joined Women Cross DMZ.” (in Korea; Harvard Div. School, July 9, 2015; photo grassrootsinternational)

Rosemary Lynch

Overview

Rosemary Lynch born Phoenix, AZ March 18, 1917 (d. 2011). Franciscan nun; poet and storyteller. Revived nuclear test protests, 1977; arrested multiple times. Founded Nevada Desert Experience, 1982; founded nonprofit organization Pace e Bene teaching nonviolence, 1989.

Quotations

“Even if nuclear weapons were abolished, unless we defuse the bombs in our own hearts, the human family is quite capable of finding other even worse means of destroying life.” (Jim Forest, website On Pilgrimage, Jan. 11, 2011; photo jimandnancyforest.com)