Penny Rosenwasser
/Overview
Penny Rosenwasser born January 18, 1949. American Jewish peace activist; co-founder Jewish Voice for Peace 1996; author, folk musician; event organizer; civil disobedience at Israeli Consulate, April 2002, protesting Israeli Jenin invasion; civil disobedience at Vandenberg AFB against MX missiles 1982-84; nonviolent civil disobedience actions at nuclear plant Charlottesville and Pentagon 1979-81; recruiter, Nicaragua Third World harvest brigade, 1985-86; “Time for Peace” Women in Black march 1989.
Quotations
"[M]y freedom, in terms of a secure homeland, couldn't be built on the displacement of another people." (Promised Land; photo oennyrosenwasser.com)