Sheila Parks

An ardent and longtime feminist, internationalist, and peace & justice activist, I defended the abortion clinics with my body for a very long time. I do not want to go back to doing that and fervently hope that those of you who have not had to do so, never will. I was in the Women's Caucus of occupy boston and after that an affinity group in ob. Active in the current wave of voting rights since the crimes of the 2000 Florida presidential election, I am opposed to all electronic voting machines and for publicly observed, secure hand-counted paper ballots (HCPB) elections, and am the founder of the Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots. I spent a year in prison for a Plowshares non-violent direct action against first strike nuclear weapons.