In Memoriam -- Concepcion Picciotto
by Cora Wandel
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In Memoriam -- Concepcion Picciotto
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Cora Wandel
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In recent years I became friends with Connie Picciotto, and stopped by her tent across the street from the White House a few days ago to check on her. But she was not there, and the next day I learned why. Connie had died.
Thirty-four years ago, in August 1981, Concepcion Picciotto staked her ground with a plastic tent across the street from the White House in Washington, DC. I should know, since moving here myself in 1982 she had always been there, in that exact spot on the sidewalk, with her many posters for a lot of different causes, particularly anti-nuclear war. Known as Connie to many of her friends, after 34+ years she holds the record for conducting the longest continuous act of political protest in the United States by a single individual. And throughout it all, she sat directly across the street at the White House, staring down every President from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama.
When Connie was not in her plastic tent, she had a small room in a homeless shelter for women not far from the peace vigil site. That is where she died on the morning of January 25, 2016.
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January 30th, 2016
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