Giveaway! Enter for a chance to win an autographed copy of Mighty Be Our Powers, by Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee
We are giving away an autographed copy of Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee’s memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers. Gbowee, who spoke at the 2011 Social Enterprise Conference on the day she was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, wrote about her experience in leading a grassroots women’s movement to end a 14-year civil war in Liberia.
Enter to win this signed copy by Friday, January 27!
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The winner will be selected at random and announced by Monday, January 30.
About Mighty Be Our Powers
As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that tore apart her life and claimed the lives of countless relatives and friends. Years of fighting destroyed her country — and shattered Gbowee’s girlhood hopes and dreams. As a young mother trapped in a nightmare of domestic abuse, she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action, propelled by her realization that it is women who suffer most during conflicts — and that the power of women working together can create an unstoppable force. In 2003, the passionate and charismatic Gbowee helped organize and then led the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, a coalition of Christian and Muslim women who sat in public protest, confronting Liberia ’s ruthless president and rebel warlords, and even held a sex strike. With an army of women, Gbowee helped lead her nation to peace — in the process emerging as an international leader who changed history. Mighty Be Our Powers is the gripping chronicle of a journey from hopelessness to empowerment that will touch all who dream of a better world.
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That’s amazing! Where can I read your inetivrew? I’d love to see it. It is humbling to meet women who have been so close to these conflicts. It’s almost unimaginable for us in America, but so important to stay close to what’s going on across the globe. It’s a powerful reminder about how important each day is and living well. Not to mention helping others.Please send the link to your article. Thanks so much for sharing. Did you make it to the Blogger Bash? I had such a sore throat. Decided not to infect anyone else.
Really inspirational story. Tweeted @vcuniverse and liked on both Twitter and Facebook! Hope to get an autographed copy of this amazing book!
Hi Deborah I wish I could send you a link. This was supposed to be a mini-series for Lifetime Television caelld, The Girls of the Green Zone. We’d just had our 54 page outline approved to go to script when the Writer’s Strike was caelld. Two months in Lifetime wiped all their projects in development off their slate. It was upsetting for me as a hired gun, but I was particularly devastated for Christina Asquith (the American journalist who has written a book about the experience) and Zia Groosh (now Flossman) her Iraqi counterpart. This is why I’m bloggging now. No one can arbitrarily delete my work. I did not make the OC Blogger’s Bash, but am going to the insane Blogworld Convention in November. I HATE networking, but will do my feeble best. If you’re ever free for coffee let me know. xo
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I entered the contest! Can’t wait to hear who wins.
Thanks for hosting this contest. I’m thrilled to enter!
Such an inspirational story!
thats great!
Thank you so much for making me aware of this prrgaom on PBS tomorrow. I will be watching.In 2008 I was given the opportunity to interview and tell the story of two female journalists in the Green Zone during the first year of the war in Iraq. One was an American, the other an Iraqi. Their friendship was extraordinary as they were both responsible for sheltering and saving one another from assassins on several different occasions. And it was humbling for me, an American, to hear about the struggles for daily survival in a war zone.