The next time we excuse ourselves from a protest because it's too inconvenient or too uncomfortable let's remember Alice Beer, bundled up in her wheelchair and at 94, ready to spend a weekend protesting for peace!
You rock, Mrs. Beer!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6186213.stmFrom Scotland...
Pensioner, 94, in nuclear protest Mrs Beer said she was "doing her bit" An elderly woman who has lived through both world wars has begun a two-day protest outside the base which houses the UK's nuclear deterrent. Alice Beer, 94, is spending the weekend at the Faslane naval base on the River Clyde, leading a group called Goats, (Golden Oldies Against Trident).
She is among about a dozen senior citizens who are part of a contingent of protesters from Leicestershire.
About 60 demonstrators cheered as Mrs Beer arrived in her wheelchair.
Mrs Beer, who has been politically active since her teenage years in Vienna, opposing the rise of fascism, said that an end to Trident and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was a cause very close to her heart.... MORE
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