The deposited records include signed Executive Committee minutes, 1958-68 Sanity, 1961-8, 1975-8 incomplete series of other CND publications. Campaign for Nuclear DisarmamentĮstablished in 1958 as successor to National Committee for Abolition of Nuclear Weapon Tests. The accession includes some correspondence also a transcription in "Sound speaking" of a diary of his experiences. Barrett unsuccessfully applied for medical exemption from military service in the Great War after enlistment he was imprisoned as a conscientious objector at Wormwood Scrubs and Wakefield, having refused to wear uniform. Socialist journalist and campaigner (1877-1950 see entry in Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.4). The names of people or organisations form links to the catalogue descriptions of their archives. Information about archives relating to the anti-Vietnam War movement is included in a separate subject guide. Linnea’s WRL friends wish her happiness and good health in her new home.Although the history of the peace movement and pacifism is not specifically included within the Centre's interest fields, it so happens that, partly as a result of its interest in pressure groups, the Centre has accumulated some important sources for the history of the anti-war and anti-nuclear weapons movements, details of which are given in this guide. She most recently traveled several times to Kisoro, Uganda, where she directed a DGH project for Montefiore Hospital medical residents. Subsequently, she periodically provided medical services in other Central American countries and spent several months each year in Chiapas, Mexico, working in the local hospital. Under DGH’s auspices, she lived in a rural area of El Salvador for more than a year to serve individuals without another source of medical care. An infectious disease specialist, she ran a clinic for the Harlem AIDS community when other doctors shunned people with the disease, and later served other poor and marginalized clients in New York City urban hospitals and clinics.įor decades Linnea has been an active board member of Doctors for Global Health (DGH), a nonprofit organization promoting health, education, art, and other human rights throughout the world. Linnea’s career as a primary care physician has demonstrated an equal commitment to social justice. As a member of a group that sat in the street at the head of a parade led by marching horses. (In contrast, the seven WRLers arrested in Moscow were held briefly and then released.)Ī year later, she engaged in arguably her most daring civil disobedience, on Armed Forces Day. A participant in the Washington, DC, action, she was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to a fine and probation. In 1978, Linnea participated in a WRL civil disobedience action that got extensive worldwide attention: unannounced simultaneous actions-unfurling banners and handing out leaflets calling for an end to nuclear weapons and nuclear power-in Moscow’s Red Square and on the White House lawn. Muste Memorial Institute for several years. In addition, she served on the board of directors of the A.J. Linnea was the chair of WRL’s executive committee between 19, a member of the committee for several decades, and an energetic participant in countless conferences, meetings, and demonstrations to promote nonviolence, an end to war, and social justice. She, along with her cats Rosie and Flora, is now living close to her hometown and to her sister, brother, and sister-in-law. Linnea Capps, pacifist activist, physician engaged in liberation medicine (the conscious, conscientious use of health to promote human dignity and social justice), and philanthropist for more than 40 years, recently left her longtime home in Brooklyn, NY, to live in a care facility in Kansas.
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