Here is her info.
Lisa Fithian is a community and labor organizer with 27 years of nonviolent direct action experience. Lisa learned early on about injustice and that people working together can create change. She has spent her most of her life working with people to understand the dynamics of power and has help thousands gain the experience and skills they need to fight for justice – no matter how great or small the cause. Lisa served as President of the student government in both high school and at Skidmore College. As a student leader she served on the board of numerous state and national student organizations. Working with Abbie Hoffman at Save the River, Lisa was instrumental in winning a major battle against winter navigation-a billion dollar Army Corp of Engineer project on the St. Lawrence River Seaway.
Lisa worked locally and nationally with the Pledge of Resistance, an organization committed to nonviolent civil disobedience to stop a US invasion in Nicaragua. She coordinated the first National Sanctuary March and was the national coordinator for the 1987 Shut Down of the CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA where over 600 people were arrested. She served on the national coordinating group for the Supreme Court action where over 800 were arrested for gay and lesbian rights and coordinated the 1990 action at the White House commemorating the assassination of Archbishop Romero where over 500 were arrested. During 7 years as coordinator of the Washington Peace Center, Lisa organized hundreds of actions on a range of issues both locally and nationally and helped lead an extensive anti-racist process that successfully transformed the Peace Center into a truly multicultural organization.
In the early 1990’s Lisa joined the labor movement, bringing her experience in nonviolent direct action to the Justice for Janitors Campaigns in Washington DC, Denver and LA and to nursing home workers in San Francisco and Detroit. She also worked with the UAW in developing their Rapid Action Team (RADD) and with the Detroit Newspaper Strikers. In each of these campaigns workers were trained in non-violent direct action and utilized civil disobedience to help settle their disputes. The Justice for Janitors 1994-95 bridge blockades in Washington DC trained hundreds of union members and staff from over 20 unions in nonviolent direct action.
Over the past year Lisa has worked extensively in the Global Justice movement and helped found the Continental Direct Action Network. Lisa provided trainings and was actively involved in the Shut-Down of the WTO in Seattle and the IMF/World Bank protests in Washington DC. She played a coordinating role between the R2K-D2K efforts at the Republican and Democratic Conventions, with her primary focus on the Democratic Convention in LA. Lisa led nonviolent direct action trainings and helped facilitate the street actions at the IMF/World Bank meetings in Prague, in Quebec around the FTAA and in Genoa during the G8 meetings. She spent two months in Washington DC organizing for the September 30, 2001 mobilizations against the IMF-World Bank and facilitated dialogues between anti-capitalist, labor and religious activist developing a document called Solidarity in Practice. After 9-11 Lisa helped re-orient the mobilization and worked to insure coordination among the groups. In November, Lisa was detained at the Canadian Border and denied entrance. In an act of nonviolent civil disobedience she refused to leave, was jailed for two days and finally won her release to carry out the trainings and organizing she had been invited to do.
Lisa is active in a training collective called Root Activist Network of Trainers, through which she carries out her global justice work. Lisa also works with a local collective in Los Angeles call Arts in Action. This collective grew out of our work around the National Democratic Convention. This collective has rented a space in the Pico Union area as a place of convergence for promoting artistic and political dialogue and action. Lisa Fithian is 40 years old and lives in Los Angeles
To boil all that "non-violent this/non-violent that" down to one sentence, in other words,
Lisa is an aging, unemployed, leftist trouble-maker.
Sounds like Lisa needs to get a life.
And these are the people screeching for "traitor" Rove's head over Plamegate.
Lisa Fithian United for Peace and Justice 213-840-1972 fithianl@igc.org Lisa Fithian, a long-time organizer is the National Co-Chair of United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ). UFPJ is a national coalition with more than 800 peace and justice groups under its umbrella. Since its founding in October 2002, UFPJ has spurred hundreds of protests and rallies around the country on a range of issues, including the two largest demonstrations against the Iraq war.
from: http://www.nog8.org/article.php?id=63
WOW this bio sounds like she deserves the nobel prize...lol. I wonder who wrote that?