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Why Gloria Steinem, Other Women and I Plan to March to the World’s Most Fortified Border
April 8, 2015 by Christine Ahn
On the 70th anniversary of Korea’s tragic division by the United States and the former Soviet Union, 30 women peacemakers will walk in support of the peaceful reunification of Korea. Our delegation includes two Nobel Peace laureates, Mairead Maguire and Leymah Gbowee, and authors, such as Gloria Steinem, artists, retired U.S. Army Colonel Ann Wright, academics, humanitarian aid workers, faith leaders, mothers and grandmothers from a dozen countries, including several nations that fought in the 1950-53 Korean War.
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North Korea Has Given A Gloria Steinem-Led Peace March The Thumbs Up
April 7, 2015 by Hayes Brown
The 155-mile long Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea is one of the most dangerous places on Earth. But on May 24, a group of women intends to walk across it, from North to South.
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North Korea supports Gloria Steinem-led women’s walk across the DMZ
April 3, 2015 by The Associated Press at the United Nations
North Korea has decided to support a proposed walk across the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas by prominent women, including Gloria Steinem, and organizers say they hope South Korea will give its approval as well.
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Can the United States Own Up to Its War Crimes During the Korean War?
March 30, 2015 by Tim Shorrock
When I was living in San Francisco in 1981, I met and became friends with Chun Sun-Tae, a Korean immigrant who had come to the United States as a college student in the 1960s and ran a small luggage shop in Oakland. James, as he was known, had grown up in the 1940s in the city of Kaesong in what was then the northern frontier of South Korea.
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With Plan to Walk Across DMZ, Women Aim for Peace in Korea
March 11, 2015 by Rick Gladstone
It was the women who helped end the bitter political and ethnic strife that ravaged Northern Ireland in the 1970s. It was the women who said enough to the atrocities in Liberia, peacefully resolving a civil conflict there more than a decade ago.
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