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the story of stephanie may
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story of hope
- Stephanie May was a housewife who one day read the story of nuclear test fallout in the atmosphere and was dismayed
- She started petition, phoned local people, worked with other housewife to get thousands of people to sign peittion
- In 3 years, she mobilized mothers around the US, met Betrand Russell in UK, mobilized UK housewives.
- Went on hunger strike in front of Russian embassy and inspired mothers across the US to also perform hunger strikes
- She created a mobilization of a previously diffuse group
- She had good understanding of different worldviews
- Ultimately, she played an important role in securing a treaty to ban nuclear testing in the atmosphere
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it was the mothers that made all the difference he said it was mothers mobilizing around the world that stopped the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere
- for: story of hope - Stephanie May, hope - mothers stopped nuclear testing
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