Grandmothers for Peace

Grandmothers for Peace

Grandmothers for Peace (a.k.a. Grandmothers for Peace International) is an organization started by Barbara Wiedner (1928-2001) in May 1982 in Sacramento, California in the USA, after the mass media became "captivated by the image of a grandmother Barbara Wiedner risking jail through non-violent civil disobedience in an effort to save the planet from nuclear annihilation".cite web
title = History and Vision
publisher = Grandmothers for Peace
url = http://www.grandmothersforpeace.org/info/
accessdate =2006-11-11 ] The organisation includes over 40 chapters around the USA and chapters in Berlin, Germany, Romania, South Africa and the United Kingdom.cite web
title = Off Their Rockers!
publisher = Grandmothers for Peace
url = http://www.grandmothersforpeace.org/directory/
accessdate =2006-11-11 ]

In 2006, the group participated in the Don't Attack Iran Coalition which opposed a military attack against Iran.cite news
title = Don't Attack Iran
language = English
publisher = Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
date = November 11, 2006
url = http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/471
accessdate =2006-11-11 ]

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