Sunday, November 16, 2014 at 1 pm

Frances Crowe will speak at Historic Northampton on Sunday, November 16th at 1 pm on her 60 years of work for peace and justice in the Pioneer Valley, where she is an icon of activism: against conscription, against nuclear power, against Apartheid, and most of all, for world peace.

As Crowe, now 95, recounts in her forthcoming memoir, Finding My Radical Soul, she turned her horror at the incendiary bombing of German cities and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki into a powerful source of activist energy. Since the 1940s, she has worked for peace through such organizations as the Society of Friends and the American Friends Service Committee and has founded or co-founded the Traprock Peace Center, the Northampton Chapter of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Valley Peace Center, and other organizations. Whether counseling conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War or refusing to support the Iraq War (and subsequent wars) with her taxes, Frances Crowe has bravely taken stands and taken risks, living out her opposition to war and her commitment to peace.