Nice piece about Ava in my local paper (Atlanta Journal-Constitution):

[RubyDuby in GA]

:)

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/03/26/0327antiwargirl.html


Teen's anti-war Web site draw 2 million a month
Alabama 16-year-old publishes Peacetakescourage.com

By DREW JUBERA
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 03/27/07

Alexander City, Ala. — Turns out the new world looks a lot like the old one: a white house in a leafy neighborhood of a Southern milltown; a soccer decal stuck to the trunk of a car parked in the driveway; a pink bicycle with training wheels in the backyard.

Even inside, there's nothing that hints this is ground zero for a 16-year-old home schooled redhead whose videos on her anti-war Web site have lit up the blogosphere with as many as 2 million visitors a month.

Peacetakescourage.com has attracted thousands of viewer, including anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, to express admiration for Ava Lowery, the site's unlikely founder. Detractors have e-mailed her more scorching sentiments, including death threats. One begins: "It's people like you who need to ... die and get raped while your corpse rots in the sun."

Lowery shrugs inside peacetakescourage.com headquarters: a lilac-painted bedroom. There's a computer on a desk, a hand-sewn teddy bear on her bed, a picture from the cult movie "Napoleon Dynamite" on the wall. She shows off a houndstooth hat like the one worn by the late Paul "Bear" Bryant, legendary University of Alabama football coach. She's a Bama fan.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. K&R

For a brave lady who is showing the way . . .

[sinkingfeeling]

2. There's a great article about her in Mother Jones this month.

[peace13]

3. Thanks for posting this.

Ava deserves all of the good press. She knows what its about and what it takes to get the message across. Great for her!!!

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. Atta girl, Ava!

K&R