Rezner hosts Gbowee on Oct. 17 radio show

NORTH COAST, Calif. – Janie Rezner's guests for Monday, Oct. 17, 7 p.m., on KZYX (www.kzyx.org) will be Leymah Gbowee, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and our very own Sherry Glaser, on their fall pledge drive.

 

Gbowee's story was told in the 2008 documentary, “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” and who was most recently honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, along with two other women.

 

As a young woman and trauma counselor in war ravaged Liberia – which was under the control of monster Charles Taylor and his armies of child soldiers – Gbowee in 2002 organized the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace and saying, “In the past we were silent, but after being killed, raped, dehumanized and infected with diseases, watching our children and families destroyed, war has taught us that the future lies in saying NO to violence and YES to peace! We will not relent until peace prevails.”


Under her leadership, the women managed to force a meeting with Taylor and extract a promise from him to attend peace talks in Ghana. Many films clips are in the movie of this violent time, including seeing Charles Taylor.

 

Dressed in white t-shirts to symbolize peace, and numbering in the thousands, these very poor and often abused women became a political force against violence and against their government. Their movement brought an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003, and led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia, the first African nation with a female president.


The show can be heard live streaming at www.kzyx.org.

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