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Marla Ruzicka / Chronicle photo by Lea Suzuki (sfgate.com).
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THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA
www.cagreens.org
Monday, April 18, 2005
Contact: Sara Amir, spokesperson 310.270.7106, saraamir@earthlink.net
Kevin McKeown, spokesperson 310.393.3639, kevin@mckeown.net
Beth Moore Haines, spokesperson 530.277.0610, beth@ncws.com
Green Party of California mourns the loss of
'activist's activist' Marla Ruzicka in Iraq
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Green Party of California
Monday expressed deep sorrow in the loss of longtime human rights
activist and Green Party member Marla Ruzicka, who died tragically in
Iraq Saturday in a car bomb blast.
Ms. Ruzicka, who was from Lakeport, California, was
the founder of Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC), which
negotiated with the U.S. government for monies for civilian victims of
the war in Iraq. She was in Iraq most recently to conduct door-to-door
surveys to determine the number of civilian casualties in the war.
"Those of us who knew Marla personally, and
there are many of those, will never forget this incredible woman, or the
remarkable effect she had on all our lives in the short time that she
was among us," said Michael Wyman, state Green Party treasurer.
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Marla Ruzicka with former San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez,
December 16, 2001 (mattgonzalez.com).
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"Marla was an activist's activist, impressing
us all with her energy and forcing us all to work that much harder just
to keep up with her. She will be missed by all who were fortunate enough
to know her, and to be touched by her incomparable energy and
commitment," he added.
"Losing Marla is a sobering shock," said
Santa Monica City Councilmember Kevin McKeown, who worked with Ruzicka
on the Green Party of California's 2000 Senatorial campaign.
"In a war that has ended too many young lives,
Marla's death is a double tragedy because the only reason she was there
was to identify and help civilian victims," he added.
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COUNTING ON MARLA
Tai Moses, AlterNet
Politicians and government officials learned the hard way
how relentless this sweet-faced girl, barely out of her
teens, could be.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21779/
ONE OF A KIND
Don Hazen, AlterNet
To say Marla was unique may seem a cliche, but in my many
years of political work and journalism, I have never known
anyone quite like her.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21777/
REMEMBERING A FRIEND KILLED IN IRAQ
Medea Benjamin, Kevin Danaher, AlterNet
Marla Ruzicka was a bright, shining light whose work focused
on trying to bring some compassion into the middle of a war
zone.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21778/
MOURNING MARLA
Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor
Intrepid humanitarian aid worker Marla Ruzicka died in
Baghdad Saturday when her car was caught in an insurgent
attack.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21780/
YOUNG ACTIVIST'S LIFE CUT SHORT IN IRAQ BLAST
By Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld...
SLAIN ACTIVIST PRAISED FOR WORK IN IRAQ
Associated Press
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/17/activist.killed.ap/index.html
HUMANITARIAN GROUP FOUNDER KILLED IN IRAQ
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/17/iraq.main/index.html
MARLA RUZICKA, FOUNDER,
CIVIC, Campaign for Innocent Victims In Conflict,
http://www.civicworldwide.org/about.htm
AT DEATH'S DOOR: AMERICAN WOMAN TRAVELS DOOR TO DOOR TO COUNT IRAQI
CASUALTIES
By David Wright, ABC News
May 28th, 2004
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/American_woman_052803.htm
MARLA RUZICKA: 26 YEAR-OLD DOING 'THE RIGHT HUMANITARIAN THING'
By Jane Ganahl, San Francisco Chronicle
December 20th, 2003
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1230-08.htm
LETTER FROM IRAQ
By Marla Ruzicka, AlterNet.
November 6, 2003
http://www.alternet.org/story/17135/
HUMAN COST OF WAR
BBC NEWS WORLD EDITION
July 8th, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/3052726.stm
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