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Suzi Chang (born 1970) is an American activist, artist and healer noted for having founded The Pink Revolution, a political and social movement. She currently works as an artist, healer, councellor, photographer and filmmaker.
Life
editChang was born in Korea but moved to the US when she was 4. She grew up in San Francisco and holds a degree in International Political Economy from UC Berkeley.
Work
editChang is most noted for starting The Pink Revolution[1], a movement to replace the current fear-based political system with one motivated by love of self, others and the environment. One of the most well-known acts [2] of The Pink Revolution was to deliver[3][4] thousands of "Pink Slips" to The White House, these pink slips called for the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney and to ask them to appear at the International Criminal Court in The Hague where they had been accused of crimes against humanity.
Another initiative started by Chang was the Tsunami Love Soup initiative for healing[5]. This project was inspired by the tragedy of the October 2010 Sumatra earthquake and tsunami, and has the goal of bringing mobile soup kitchens to remote villages, specifically aiming at helping orphaned and displaced children. This project also had the aim of documenting this process and the loss and destruction that occurred during th
Chang also attempted to create a new policital party at the Burning Man festival in 2004[6]. During this time, she organized a press conference and meeting which was then voted on by the attendees gathered there, who chose not to form a political party at that time.
Chang is also noted for selling costumes[7] and accessories on street corners in San Francisco as part of her political and healing activities.
References
edit- ^ http://www.myspace.com/pink_revolution
- ^ http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-01-14/news/s-f-activist-suzi-chang-seeks-to-give-bush-pink-slip/
- ^ http://indigomoonstar.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/indi-goes-to-washington/
- ^ http://marycontrary.onsugar.com/beautiful-travelers-7462753
- ^ http://disasterrelief.tribe.net/thread/452e26ce-4a46-40d5-89dd-22e06c36426b#183453df-16b8-4c2c-acd0-442437a0ae22
- ^ http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2004/09/09/news.html
- ^ http://missionlocal.org/2010/12/suzis-pink-revolution/
External links
edit- [The Pink Revolution http://www.myspace.com/pink_revolution ]
- [Suzi Chang gives Bush the Pink Slip http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-01-14/news/s-f-activist-suzi-chang-seeks-to-give-bush-pink-slip/ ]