Heroes of a Different Stripe was named this year's International Peacewriting Award by the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology, and the Peace and Justice Studies Association at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville in May.
Heroes of a Different Stripe was named this year's International Peacewriting Award by the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology, and the Peace and Justice Studies Association at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville in May.
The award was set up to encourage writing that opposes violence and war and supports international nonviolent, activist peacemaking and peacemakers.
"Every member of the peace movement will want to read this inspiring book of the resistance by the people of Kalamazoo, WI to the Bush Administration’s deceptive, illegal invasion of Iraq....We must say to Ms. Bonfiglio, Thank you! for so steadfastly and expertly recording the noble refusal by so many Kalamazoo citizens to accept the militarism, the imperialism, the police state repression of the onrushing fascism of the Bush regime.
