 March 2001
American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine Patrica Watson, Editor Sara Burke, Assistant Editor Pat Farren, Founding Editor 2161 Massachusetts Ave. Telephone number: Fax number:
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In Memoriam, Sam Day It is with great sadness that I share the news of the death of my dear friend and colleague, Sam Day; writer, activist, coordinator of the US Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu (Israeli scientist, kidnapped and imprisoned by Israel for disclosing his county's nuclear weapons program), Sam was past editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Progressive magazine, past director of Nukewatch, and recipient of the US Fellowship of Reconciliation's Martin Luther King, Jr., Peace Prize. As a long-time activist who had himself spent time in prison as a result of his anti-nuclear convictions, Sam felt the rightness of Mordechai Vanunu's truth-telling to the very core of his being, and worked tirelessly on Mordechai's behalf and for their common vision of a nuclear-free world, with great dedication and hope. Shortly before his death, he was in Washington, DC for his trial with eight others who were arrested at the Israeli embassy in September demanding nuclear abolition and Vanunu's immediate release. This arrest now becomes the last entry on a long rap sheet in his distinguished activist career. After several weeks of travel, he was home in Madison, Wisconsin for a week before suffering a massive stroke on Friday, January 26. His passing is a tremendous loss for the peace and disarmament movement. If anyone would like to send a message to put into a booklet for Sam's memorial, you can email it to me at nukeresister@igc.org, or to Nukewatch at nukewtch@lakeland.ws.
--Felice Cohen-Joppa, Luck, Wisconsin 
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