Sister Simone Campbell

The Awesome Woman of the Day for Wednesday, September 19, 2012 is Sister Simone Campbell, catholic nun, one of the Nuns on the Bus.

http://youtu.be/K1Y34KOADxc

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/sister-simone-campbell-nun-from-the-bus-calls-gop-budget-immoral/2012/09/06/d815e19c-f867-11e1-a93b-7185e3f88849_story.html

A brief biography of her can be found here http://data.rac.org/bt/?page_id=247 - begin quoted matter:
Sister Simone Campbell: Biography


Sister Simone Campbell, Executive Director of NETWORK since 2004, is a religious leader, attorney and poet with extensive experience in public policy and advocacy for systemic change. In Washington, she lobbies on issues of peace building, health care, comprehensive immigration reform and economic justice. Around the country, she is a noted speaker and educator on these public policy issues.

Prior to coming to NETWORK, Simone served as the Executive Director of JERICHO, the California interfaith public policy organization that works like NETWORK to protect the interests of people who are poor. Simone also participated in a delegation of religious leaders to Iraq in December 2002, just prior to the invasion and on a delegation to Syria and Lebanon in January 2008 to experience the Iraqi refugee crisis. Since returning, she has spoken and written extensively on her experiences.

Before JERICHO, Simone served as the general director of her religious community, the Sisters of Social Service. She was the leader of her Sisters in the United States, Mexico, Taiwan and the Philippines. In this capacity, she negotiated with government and religious leaders in each of these countries.

In 1978, Simone founded and served for 18 years as the lead attorney for the Community Law Center in Oakland, California. She served the family law and probate needs of the working poor of her county.

Simone has her J.D. from the University of California at Davis where she was an editor of the law review. Her B.A. is from Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, CA, where she graduated with honors. (end quoted matter).

I apologize if she has been profiled before; I know we’ve posted articles about the Nuns on the Bus and their opposition to Paul Ryan’s budget.

Megan Gillespie Rice

The Awesome Woman of the Day for Wednesday, August 15, 2012, is Megan Gillespie Rice, born January 31, 1930, in the news recently for breaking into one of the USA’s highest security plants – a nuclear weapons facility – and vandalized the crap out of it.

She grew up in Manhattan, NY, USA, went to Catholic Schools, and joined the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus when she turned 18.

Rice then studied biology and received degrees in biology from Villanova and Boston College. From 1962 to 2004, with occasional breaks, she served her order as a teacher in Nigeria and Ghana.

In the 1980s she joined the anti-war movement, and since then has engaged in protests against a variety of American military actions, military sites, and nuclear installations. Rice has been arrested more than three dozen times in acts of civil disobedience, including her anti-nuclear activism and protests against the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia. She has served two six-month prison sentences resulting from trespasses during protests against the School of the Americas in 1997-99. [Wikipedia, supra.]

On July, 28, 2012, Sister Megan and two other protesters, Michael Walli, 63, and Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, cut through perimeter fences to reach the outer wall of a building where highly enriched uranium, a key nuclear bomb component, is stored.

The activists painted slogans and threw what they said was human blood on the wall of the facility before they were arrested shortly before 4.30am last Saturday.