Greenpeace founder Dorothy Stowe is dead

[cory777]

Source: Indo-Asian News Service

Greenpeace founder Dorothy Stowe died in Vancouver on Friday. She was 89. She and her husband founded the environmental movement here in 1971 along with Jim Bohlen who also died just three weeks ago.Stowe was suffering from kidney disease, leukemia and diabetes and died at the University of British Columbia hospital here.

A Rhode Island native, Dorothy and her husband Irving Stowe - who died of cancer in 1974 - moved to Vancouver in 1966 to escape "atomic fallout from nuclear tests in Polynesia and avoid contributing to nuclear proliferation by paying taxes".

The Stowe couple met Jim Bohlen and his wife Marie Bohlen here and joined hands with them to plot protests against the American decision to test nuclear bombs on Amchitka Island, off the coast of Alaska in 1970.

Their protest group named 'Don't Make a Wave Committee' was soon to become the worldwide Greenpeace movement.

Read more: http://www.hindustantimes.com/Greenpeace-founder-Dorothy-Stowe-is-dead/Article1-576916.aspx

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R.I.P.

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[Hekate]

1. KnR, Dorothy Stowe. Rest in peace; your work will go on.

[ixion]

5. Indeed.

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[PDJane]

2. I am very sorry to hear this;

I know one can't live forever, but I keep hoping that some will beat the odds. Yes, her work will go on.

[IndianaGreen]

3. RIP

:cry:

[Veracious]

4. I put my Green Peace flag out today

Green Peace LIVES ON!

[MissDeeds]

6. What a remarkable legacy she leaves

R.I.P. Dorothy Stowe.

[xchrom]

7. may Peace be with her family and friends at this time. nt

[TBF]

8. "Who knew that four people at a kitchen table could give rise to a movement..."

Dorothy, it is the only way change has ever really happened. Bless you for your efforts.

[amyrose2712]

9. Thank you, Dorothy . nt

[niyad]

10. requiescat in pacem, dorothy. your work lives on. peace and comfort to your

family and loved ones.

[bitchkitty]

12. A great loss, but her legacy is beyond measure. RIP, Dorothy Stowe. n/t

[avaistheone1]

13. Sad news.

A life well lived...RIP

[texastoast]

14. May her family find comfort

in this example of a life well lived. May she rest in peace and may all of us recognize the power of a few.

[Ignis]

15. RIP

She was a hero.

[DissedByBush]

16. Avoid atomic fallout by moving to Vancouver? Huh?

I think her geography's a bit off.

Rhode Island is on the East coast of the continent, facing the Atlantic Ocean, very far away from Polynesia.

Vancouver is on the West coast of the continent, facing the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles CLOSER to Polynesia.

Plus she moved relatively right next door to the Alaska tests.

[nashville_brook]

17. they were living in New Zealand at the time of that move.

[DissedByBush]

20. Okay, that makes sense

No indication of it from the article.

[pleah]

18. RIP

[earcandle]

19. Thank you Dorothy Stowe for everything you have done to help us get a platform. rest in peace.