Ellen Thomas
Ellen Thomas (born January 24, 1947) is an American peace activist. She first became involved with the White House Peace Vigil on April 13, 1984. The daughter of a US Marine, Thomas was born in Brooklyn and grew up in California. She became opposed to nuclear weapons during her childhood.[1] In protest at the policies of the United States government, she became a tax resister by simply living below the income tax threshold.[2]
On May 6, 1984, Ellen Benjamin married Thomas in a Quaker wedding to become Ellen Thomas.[3] Thomas and her husband protested together for a number of years, until his death in January 2009 of pulmonary disease.[4]
Ellen also heads The Proposition One Non-Radioactive Nuclear Review, a traveling multimedia troupe that educates the public on the dangers of a nuclear future. In 1993 she helped coordinate the successful Washington DC ballot initiative for Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion.[5] Ellen formally served on the Washington Peace Center's board of directors, but has since moved to North Carolina.[6]
The Oracles of Pennsylvania Avenue (2012) by Tim Wilkerson, a documentary commissioned by the Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, recounts the lives of William and Ellen Thomas, Concepción Picciotto and Norman Mayer.[7]
See also
- List of peace activists
- Concepcion Picciotto
- Brian Haw
- Parliament Square Peace Campaign
References
- ^ "Ellen Thomas, Peace Park Vigiler". prop1.org.
- ^ Matt Hagengruber (July 9, 2000). "DC protest group stands test of time". KnightRidder.
I decided that when I didn't need to worry about providing for my daughter, I was going to reduce my income to below the poverty level so I wouldn't have to pay taxes, because I don't agree with the policies [of the US government]
- ^ "Birth of a Street Person". www.prop1.org.
- ^ http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/39316 [dead link]
- ^ "Anti-nuclear activists to visit today".[permanent dead link]
- ^ John Kelly (November 6, 2011), "For 30-year peace activist, a new battle", The Washington Post,
Ellen, who moved to the mountains of North Carolina after his [her husband's] death
- ^ "The Oracles of Pennsylvania Avenue". Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
External links
- Peace Park Website
- Oracles of Pennsylvania Avenue
- Washington Peace Center
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groups
- Abalone Alliance
- Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
- Clamshell Alliance
- Committee for Nuclear Responsibility
- Corporate Accountability International
- Critical Mass Energy Project
- Friends of the Earth
- Greenpeace USA
- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
- Mothers for Peace
- Musicians United for Safe Energy
- Nevada Desert Experience
- Nuclear Control Institute
- Nuclear Information and Resource Service
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Plowshares movement
- Ploughshares Fund
- Public Citizen
- Shad Alliance
- Sierra Club
- Three Mile Island Alert
- Women Strike for Peace
- Kings Bay Plowshares
- Daniel Berrigan
- William J. Bichsel
- Bruce G. Blair
- Larry Bogart
- Helen Caldicott
- Barry Commoner
- Norman Cousins
- Frances Crowe
- Carrie Barefoot Dickerson
- Paul M. Doty
- Bernard T. Feld
- Randall Forsberg
- John Gofman
- Paul Gunter
- John Hall
- Jackie Hudson
- Sam Lovejoy
- Amory Lovins
- Bernard Lown
- Arjun Makhijani
- Gregory Minor
- Hermann Joseph Muller
- Ralph Nader
- Graham Nash
- Linus Pauling
- Eugene Rabinowitch
- Phil Radford
- Bonnie Raitt
- Carl Sagan
- Martin Sheen
- Karen Silkwood
- Thomas
- Louis Vitale
- Harvey Wasserman
- Victor Weisskopf
protest
sites
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
- Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon
- Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power
- Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978
- The Cult of the Atom
- The Doomsday Machine (book)
- Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
- Killing Our Own
- Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant
- Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West
- Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System
- Nuclear Politics in America
- We Almost Lost Detroit
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