J. Edward Guinan | |
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| Born | John Edward Guinan March 6, 1936 Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
| Died | 26 December 2014 (aged 78) |
| Occupation(s) | Community peace activist, author, former Paulist priest |
| Years active | 1965–2012 |
| Known for | Founder, Community for Creative Non-Violence. Author of the first ballot for the Statehood movement in the District of Columbia. |
J. Edward Guinan (6 March 1936 – 26 December 2014) was a former stock trader who became a Paulist priest and founded Washington, D.C.'s Community for Creative Non-Violence in 1970.[1][2] He engaged in public acts of nonviolent resistance such as extreme fasting and peaceful civil disobedience in response to homelessness, hunger, the Vietnam war, the Indochina wars, and Henry Kissinger's controversial legacy that brought national media attention.[3] He was the first to put the initiative for DC Statehood on the ballot, and it won all wards of the district to kickstart the statehood movement.[4]
- ^ "CCNV Chronology". The Community for Creative Non-Violence. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
- ^ Miller, Timothy (1999). The 60s Communes: Hippies and Beyond. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. pp. 131–32.
- ^ Elwell, Christine (2008). From Political Protest to Bureaucratic Service: The Transformation of Homeless Advocacy in the Nation's Capital and the Eclipse of Political Discourse. Washington, DC: American University, PhD dissertation.
- ^ Myers Asch, Chris; Musgrove, George Derek (2017). Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital. Chapel Hill NC: UNC Press Books. p. 417. ISBN 9781469635873.
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