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Greenpeace founder Dorothy Stowe dies
last update: Jul 26, 2010 01:05 PM
From various articles: Less than 3 weeks after the death of another Greenpeace co-founder Jim Bohlen, Dorothy Stowe has died last Friday. She remained an activist until the end.
The Greenpeace movement was started and founded by Dorothy, her husband, Irving Stowe, and Jim Bohlen.
Back in 1970, in Vancouver, Dorothy and Irvin met Jim Bohlen and Marie Bohlen and then started the protests against the American test nuclear bombs on Amchitka Island, off the coast of Alaska. Their protest group was named ‘Don’t Make a Wave Committee’. Shortly before her death Ms Stowe said “Who knew that four people at a kitchen table could give rise to a movement that has offices in 40 countries? You couldn’t possibly have predicted it.”
Another early Greenpeacer, Rex Weyler, said “She was the real deal. She was the sort of person that actually made things happen.”
Read more:
Headliner Watch, 24th July 2010
Montreal Gazette, 24th July 2010
Vancouver Sun, 24th July 2010
IBN Live, 24th July 2010
