Oral historian and activist Rosalie Riegle is the author of Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family and Community and Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters Speak Out for Peace. Both books are based on interviews with peace activists who have spent time in jails and prisons as members of families and communities. The book is based on nearly 200 interviews conducted over a three year period. Rosalie Riegle spoke about her work in Portland in early May.
Rosalie Riegle, author of Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family and Community and Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters Speak Out for Peace,is a peace activist and oral historian from Michigan and Illinois. She taught English for 33 years at Saginaw Valley State University and co-founded two Catholic Worker houses in Saginaw, Michigan.
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