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About Joan Bokaer
Joan Bokaer was a nuclear disarmament activist and national speaker in the 1980's.
On her many speaking tours, she became aware of the Religious Right as a political force in the Republican Party. She spent four
years attending their Church
services and political training seminars. She joined several organizations and spoke extensively with fundamentalists until she felt she
understood their way of thinking. She was invited to speak on the subject throughout the country, particularly in mainline churches and
theological seminaries.
Ms. Bokaer noticed that she enjoyed attending some of the more spirited church services of groups she was
studying.
She appreciated how those institutions gave practitioners a sense of community. At the same time she was very alarmed by what the
preachers were saying.
It seemed to her that isolation was endemic in this society, and that churches she visited offered people a
feeling of belonging.
So she decided to address the dual problem of isolation and destruction of the natural world.
She organized A Global Walk for A Livable World - one hundred people who walked from Los Angeles to New York City in 1990 to raise
awareness about environmental issues. Upon her return from the walk
she founded an environmentally sensitive
community of sixty households. She also co-organized the Third International EcoCity Conference in Senegal, West Africa in 1996.
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