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Don’t Be Afraid to Get Arrested: Longtime Activist Paki Wieland Says Today’s Protesters Aren’t Disturbing Enough People

Weiland’s arrest record reads like a catalog of major political controversies over the last several decades. She protested the war in Vietnam, the Iraq War, drone warfare, violence at the Gaza Strip, nuclear power plants, Wall Street’s abuse of the economy during, before, and after the Great Recession, and the Trump administration.
“She’s the model citizen, I think, in Western Massachusetts,” says Jeff Napolitano, program director for the Northampton chapter of American Friends Service Committee.

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