Paradise Still Has Snakes

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Judy Plank

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491_9781513640273

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Welcome to Paradise. A sign at Tabacon Springs Resort in the tropical Paradise of Costa Rica reads: "Dear Guest: This is an area of possible volcanic activity. Please follow all safety measures as instructed in the event of an emergency. Acts of nature and those caused by disregard of safely precautions are not the responsibility of the management. Thank you for your visit." Paradise is easily lost, not only by a natural event, but by war, the annihilation of whole peoples and their cultures, or individual or government actions. Like the Tabacon Springs management, no one takes responsibility for the consequences.This book recounts the life of Judy Plank, a Quaker observer and activist for peace and social justice, who was born the same year as the atomic bomb. Her story begins with the history of her family, who were forced from Paradise by wars on two continents in the mid-1800s. For most of her life she's lived far from the centers of power, in Siouxland, in the American Great Plains. Her book chronicles her heart-led activism and candidly recounts her courageous and principled struggle to live a life of peace within a troubled family and world of injustice and war.Journal excerpts, newspaper articles, and poems intersperse the author's narrative of her half century of participation in non-violent protests to reverse some of the deadly trends unfolding in our world. Her activism began during the Vietnam War and continued through the Women's Peace Encampment, Nuclear Freeze Campaigns, the farm crisis of the 1980s , and actions supporting migrants on the U.S./Mexico border and paths to citizenship for those brought to this country as children. Her deeply held convictions compelled her not only to participate in demonstrations but to two arrests: protesting shipments of nuclear weapons from an upstate New York military depot to Europe during the cold war, and in Minneapolis,

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