Americans Who Tell the Truth

Frances Crowe Comments:

 

As a  Quaker I've moved as the way "closed in behind me" not as the "way opened" as the more traditional Quaker says.  The horrors of
Hiroshima was my epiphany. Since then I've worked to abolish war.
    Group draft counseling hundreds of students about Conscientious Objection came to me as a last resort to stopping the Vietnam War.
When National Public Radio refused to broadcast Democracy Now, I believed the airways belonged to the people so I set up a Pirate
Radio station in my basement. Now it is aired 3 times a day all over Western Massachusetts, not NPR.
     Unable to move congress to stop the war in Iraq I stopped paying for war.  I file my tax return , send a letter explaining that my conscience will
not permit me to pay and I send the taxes due to groups working to stop war and to public education. Each step helps me to take
the next one.
    Our life style demands war so now I try to live simply.  I do not use air travel, I walk or use public transportation and drive only in an
emergency.  I eat local only and am a vegetarian. 
    I've lived an open life, my only fear is being indifferent to the suffering of others. The community one builds in the justice work sustains me.