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My Name Is Jody Williams

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My Name Is

Jody Williams

A Vermont Girl's Winding Path

to the Nobel Peace Prize

Jody Williams

Foreword by Eve Ensler

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Williams, Jody, 1950-

My name is Jody Williams : a Vermont girl's winding path to the Nobel Peace Prize/Jody Williams. — 1st Edition.

pages cm. — (California series in public anthropology ; 25)

ISBN 978-0-520-27025-1 (alk. paper)

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1. Williams, Jody, 1950—2. Pacifists—United States— Biography. 3. Women Nobel Prize winners—United States—Biography. 4. Nobel Prize winners—United States—Biography. I. Title.

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For my family.

To activists everywhere who work for a world of

sustainable peace, equality, and justice for us all.

And to those who want to contribute to change but

aren't sure what they do will matter. Every action

we take for the benefit of others matters deeply.

Find your passion and work on it, even a couple

of hours a month. It will change your world

in ways you can't possibly imagine.

CONTENTS

Foreword by Eve Ensler

Prologue: October 10, 1997

PART I.

IF YOU COULD BE ANYONE

1. What Do You Mean I Can't Be the Pope?

2. A Special Place in Hell

3. Claude, Casey, and the Corvair Convertible

4. V-I-E-T-N-A-M, Marriage, and Mexico

Illustrations

PART II.

THE MAKING OF A GRASSROOTS ACTIVIST

5. The Pamphlet

6. Boots on the Ground: Sandinista Interlude

7. Dinner with the Death Squad

8. I Thought I Wanted a Straight Job—Instead I Got Landmines

9. Landmines and Love

10. The Ottawa Process and the 1997 Landmine Ban World Tour

11. Whirlwind: October 10 to December 10, 1997

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

FOREWORD

Eve Ensler

Jody Williams is many things—a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But to me Jody Williams is, first and foremost, an activist.

What is an activist? The dictionary says,

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