What does Elizabeth do with her limited free time?
Walking, watching movies with my husband and 3 dogs, International Cooperation, Diplomacy, the Environment, Politics: The only party I have volunteered for is the Green Party, the only party I have been a paid member of is the Conservative party and the only party I have been offered a job working for is the Labour Party. I believe in the representation of all and unity of the political process. In America I have great friends on all sides of the aisle (Ds, Rs & Is), along the political spectrum.
My OFFICIAL BIO:
Mrs. Kucinich is an international advocate for human rights, environmental sustainability and global prosperity.
Elizabeth’s work parallels that of her husband, Congressman Dennis Kucinich. She traveled with him to the Middle East in 2006 when he met with leaders of Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine immediately after the Israel-Lebanon war. Dennis and Elizabeth also spent time in destroyed communities, listening to people’s stories.
Mrs. Kucinich holds a BA in Religious Studies and Theology and an MA in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent, U.K. and has completed vocational training in Core Skills in U.N. Human Rights Fieldwork, SPHERE: implementation training in Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, and the Child Protection Certificate. In alignment with her core commitments, Elizabeth is also credentialed in conflict transformation studies through the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in Appreciative Inquiry at Case Western Reserve University, USA and in Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University, U.K. Before coming to America, Mrs. Kucinich was a volunteer British Red Cross refugee caseworker and a support worker for detained asylum seekers, while working fulltime for the nonprofit organization, Mission to Seafarers.
Mrs. Kucinich's work has taken many forms. She is engaged in policy and humanitarian issues such as human and animal rights as well as showing how businesses can be agents of positive change in the world. Elizabeth is actively involved in the Congressional Human Rights and Holistic Health Caucuses in the House of Representatives, has taught graduate MBA courses on monetary reform, environmental sustainability and appreciative organizational development. As a life long advocate of environmental sustainability and ecological protection, Elizabeth, trained by Al Gore, is a certified presenter on Climate Change.
Elizabeth started early to strive for the transformation of an entrenched destructive political culture to one of empowerment, peace and prosperity. She first lobbied the British Parliament at age fourteen; at seventeen she taught in Hungary and at eighteen was offered her first job working for an MP who encountered her hand delivering 600 letters on a school day to MPs on the issue of animal welfare and factory farming. Instead of taking the position, Elizabeth decided to travel alone to India for six months where she fulfilled her dream to work at a Missionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa) home in Agra and later moved to a village close to the Taj Mahal where she developed a small environment focused education project for Dilat children, providing a safe space for children of all backgrounds to socialize and learn together as equals.
Because of her experiences living with a subsistence farming community in East Africa (2002-2003), working in education, HIV/AIDS prevention, appropriate technology water and energy projects, Mrs. Kucinich formed SHE (Sustainable Holistic Enterprise) in 2006, in partnership with Cleveland based International Partners in Mission. SHE is sponsoring an education project in East Africa. SHE has just started researching comparable models for application in underserved communities in the United States. Elizabeth worked with the Forum for Stable Currencies at the House of Lords, London, and organized the American Monetary Institute's first international conference in Chicago. For Elizabeth, reforming the global debt-based money system is the most pressing issue of our time.
An interesting note:
My final exam for my MA was on “Conflict Resolution in World Politics†the date of the exam: September 11th, 2001.
IMAGINE!
The following is Meryl Ann Butler's fantastic article previous published on OpEdNEWS.COM on First Ladies and trends regarding age, citizenship and swift courtships! Enjoy and please pass it on!
Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich: You Can’t Get More Presidential Than This!
Presidential Patterns in Citizenship, Courtship and Age
by Meryl Ann Butler
There’s been a flurry of misinformation tossed about in the media lately, which attempts to position Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich outside the parameters of “presidentiality.†These comments have ranged from mentions of the fact that Elizabeth is a British citizen, to their short courtship, to the age difference between her and Dennis. And, recently, when Hannah Storm interviewed Dennis and Elizabeth on NBC’s The Early Show, she erroneously said to Elizabeth, “You would be the first, First Lady at such a young age.†This is quite simply, not true.
So here are some actual facts that show how “in step†Dennis and Elizabeth are with other presidential couples.
Youthful First Ladies
Elizabeth Kucinich, at the time of the January, 2009, inauguration, will be just 31 years old, but this would certainly not make her the youngest First Lady. This is exactly the same age that Jacqueline Kennedy (b. July 28, 1929) was at her husband’s inauguration on January 20, 1961.
But two other First Ladies were younger than Elizabeth and Jacqueline.
Julia Gardiner Tyler (b. May 4, 1820) became First Lady at age 24. She married President John Tyler (b. March 29, 1790) on June 26, 1844. He was the first president to marry in office. (His first wife died earlier in his term.)
The Tylers had a 30-year difference in their ages, just slightly less than Dennis and Elizabeth’s 31-year age difference.
According to http://www.firstladies.org/, “between 1841 and 1844, Julia received (marriage) proposals from no less than two Congressmen, one Supreme Court Justice, and one from President Tyler.†Former First Lady Dolley Madison (b. May 20, 1768) took credit for the matchmaking that resulted in their marriage. The site goes on to describe Julia as â€flirtatious … and very daring for her day …†Renowned for her beauty, she was dubbed, “The Rose of Long Island.†She introduced the polka to Washington society and had the Marine Band play “Hail to the Chief†when the President entered the room for special occasions.1
Frances Folsom Cleveland (b. July 21, 1864) was even younger. She became First Lady at age 21, when she married President Grover Cleveland on June 2, 1886. There was a 27-year difference in their ages. Theirs was the first and only wedding of an American president to take place in the executive mansion. The birth of their first child, Ruth (born during the four years between their two terms of office) created a national sensation. But Ruth was a sickly child, who only lived to the age of 12. According to her obituary, “She was known to the nation as ‘Baby Ruth’ during her White House years.†Many products were named after her, and it has been popularly believed that Curtis Candy Company’s Baby Ruth candy bar was named for her as well, although there has been speculation to the contrary.
Some First Ladies were not the wives of the presidents. They were relatives or close friends, who served as hostesses for widowed or unmarried presidents, or in cases where the First Lady’s health prevented her from assuming that role. For instance, Harriet Lane was First Lady for her beloved, bachelor uncle, President James Buchanan, whom she called, “Nunc†and who raised her after she was orphaned. She was only 26, but according to firstladies.org, she “nonetheless fill(ed) the difficult position of First Lady with a grace, elegance, and aplomb of a woman much older and much more experienced … In her will, she donated her invaluable art collection to the Smithsonian, which eventually became the nucleus of the National Gallery of Art.â€
American Citizens or Not?
All of our First Ladies born before 1776 were British citizens, of course. These include Martha Washington (b. June 2, 1731), Abigail Adams (b. Nov. 11, 1744), Dolley Madison (b. May 20, 1768), Elizabeth Monroe (b. June 30, 1768), Louisa Adams (b. Feb. 12, 1775), and Anna Harrison (b. July 25, 1775) who was a First Lady, but never actually served, as her husband died after only 31 days in office, before she was able to move to Washington.
First Lady Louisa Johnson Adams was born in London, although she spent most of her childhood in France. She was four when she met 12-year-old John Quincy Adams in 1779, while he and his father were guests at the Johnson home. When she was 22, she and John Quincy, who was in Europe as a diplomat, were married in London on July 26, 1797. “The wedding of the President's son to a British-born subject attracted national press back in the United States,†the Boston Independent Chronicle's September 14, 1797, edition stated, noting that, "Young John Adams' Negotiations have terminated in a Marriage Treaty with an English lady…" (firstladies.org). Louisa saw America for the first time in 1800, when she was 25 years old.
According to firstladies.org, “Hannah Hoes Van Buren (was) the first President's wife to be born an American citizen, in 1783. All First Ladies before her were British Subjects.†However, since Hannah died 18 years before her husband became President, she never served as First Lady. Her husband, born in 1782, was the first President to be born an American citizen. President Van Buren designated his daughter-in-law, Angelica Singleton Van Buren, to serve as hostess for the White House, and she is included in firstladies.org’s list of First Ladies.
Margaret “Peggy†Mackall Smith Taylor (1788-1852), wife of 12th President Zachary Taylor, was born on September 21, 1788. She was the first, First Lady to be born an American citizen.
Short and Sweet Courtships
Dennis and Elizabeth had a brief courtship. They met in early May of 2005, and both say it was “love at first sight.†They married just over three months later on August 21st. But their courtship wasn’t the shortest in presidential history.
Lyndon Baines Johnson proposed to Lady Bird Taylor at the end of their first date on August 31, 1934, and they married just 10 weeks later on November 17, 1934. According to a PBS documentary, “(Lady Bird) met the brash, young congressional aide at a party in Austin, two months after (her) graduation. LBJ immediately asked her to breakfast the next morning at the Driskill Hotel … (they) spent the day together and talked for hours. By sundown, LBJ said he wanted to marry her … Just 10 weeks after they met, Lady Bird was Lyndon Johnson's wife. She called (her father) Captain Taylor and said, "Last night, Lyndon and I committed matrimony."
Dolley and James Madison weren’t very far behind in the short courtship arena. They met officially in late May of 1794, when James Madison asked his friend Aaron Burr to introduce them. Dolley was 26 and James was 17 years older, a generation apart in colonial times. (When Dennis and Elizabeth met on May 4, 2005, she was 27 and he was 58.)
Dolley and James seem to have fallen for each other immediately, but kept it a secret or, at least they tried! Rumors found their ways to Martha Washington, who questioned James about it. He denied it. Nevertheless, they married three and a half months later, on Sept. 15, 1794.
Biographies of the Madisons frequently mention how blissful their relationship was. Dolley said, "our hearts understand each other." Similarly, Elizabeth and Dennis have characterized their happy relationship as a “meeting of souls.†Elizabeth says, “People who see us together understand–they see our connection.â€
Clearly, neither differences in age, circumstances of birth, nor brevity of courtship stands in the way of powerfully linked partners, who follow their hearts in service of the people.
Chronology of the Presidents and First Ladies mentioned above, with years served:
Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809, 3rd Pres.) Widowed. The First Lady role was filled by Dolley Madison (wife of Sect’y of State, James Madison) and Jefferson’s daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph.
James Madison (1809-1817, 4th Pres.) First Lady, Dolley Payne Todd Madison
John Quincy Adams (1825-1829, 6th Pres.) First Lady, Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams
Martin Van Buren, (1837-1841, 8th Pres.) His wife Hannah died before he served and he was a widower for the remainder of his life.
John Tyler (1841-1845, 10th Pres.) First Ladies, Letitia Tyler (who died during his term) and Julia Gardiner Tyler (who married him during his term.)
Zachary Taylor (March 4, 1849 - July 9, 1850, 12th Pres.) First Lady, Margaret “Peggy†Mackall Smith Taylor
James Buchanan (1857-1861, 15th Pres.) First Lady, niece, Harriet Lane
Grover Cleveland (1885-1889 and 1893-1897, 22nd and 24th Pres.) First Lady, Frances Folsom Cleveland
John F. Kennedy (1961-1963, 35th Pres.) First Lady, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-1969, 36th Pres.) First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson
Author Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, writer, educator, and matriot. She counts First Lady Dolley Payne Todd Madison among her ancestors, as well as James Payne and Thomas Wheeler, signers of the Articles of Confederation. She appreciates knowing that the blood of America’s founders runs in her veins. www.merylannbutler.com
Meryl Ann would like to thank Gail Davis for her exceptional editorial support in this and many other projects.
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I'd like to meet:
Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela
HOW I MET DENNIS, A COOL STORY!
"How Kucinich Found Love"
Published on Sunday, October 30, 2005 by the Cleveland Plain Dealer by Evelyn Theiss
On May 4, Elizabeth Harper walked with her boss into Dennis Kucinich's Capitol Hill office for a meeting and immediately noticed three things. In the reception area, she saw a visiting nun in white robes. In his inner office sat a shelf bearing an illustration depicting "light consciousness" and a bust of Gandhi.
She studied the lean and intense congressman and felt an attraction.
"Now this is an interesting man," she thought.
Elizabeth Harper and Dennis Kucinich
Dennis had also closely observed Elizabeth, a statuesque Englishwoman with waist-length red hair.
"I saw her eyes go to the light consciousness picture, then to the Gandhi bust, then to me," he says. "It was like one, two, three. That's when I knew."
Within an hour, he called his friend, actress Mimi Kennedy, best known for playing Dharma's mother on "Dharma & Greg."
"I met her," Dennis said. Kennedy knew exactly what he meant. She gave a little yelp of joy.
Elizabeth and Dennis, by most laws of logic and logistics, should never have met.
She grew up in the 1980s in the tiny English village of North Ockendon, in a cottage where Pea Lane meets Dennis Lane. At Maytree Cottage, she planted flowers, listened to her mother read stories by the wood stove in the winter, and with her younger sister tended stray animals.
Dennis grew up in the 1950s. Sometimes, he and his six siblings and parents lived in the family car.
When his mother became ill, the children stayed at the Parmadale Home for Children for months at a time.
Elizabeth went to an academically competitive secondary school in nearby Upminster. She and her classmates occasionally traveled Europe. Always the tallest in her class, she was one of the school's best players of net-ball, a game similar to volleyball.
Dennis, always the shortest boy in his class, went to high school at St. John Cantius in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood. He worked several jobs to pay his tuition. And despite his 4-foot-9 stature and weight of 97 pounds, he toughed it out on the football team as third-string quarterback.
In 1996, Dennis, the once-marginalized boy mayor of Cleveland, continued his political comeback and was elected to U.S. Congress.
That same year, Elizabeth graduated from high school and took a plane to Agra, India - site of the Taj Mahal - where she had signed up to volunteer at one of Mother Teresa's homes for India's poorest children.
They really shouldn't have met, these two people, with oceans and three decades between them. But they did share some things: a desire to work for peace, concern for the environment, a strong spirituality girded by Eastern traditions and - the thing that brought Elizabeth to his office last spring - a belief that monetary reform can offer a solution to poverty.
Well-educated woman lived among the poor
Elizabeth arrived in the United States in April, one month before meeting Dennis. She spent part of her first month visiting an Austin, Texas, death-row prisoner with whom she had corresponded. It was her second trip to this country and she was well-traveled and highly educated.
After earning her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Kent, she spent 16 months in a rural Tanzanian village, where she lived in a concrete-block, tin-roofed house, and worked as an advocate for regional development.
"It was there, and in India, that I learned that people who our society thinks have nothing, and who live in the poorest conditions, still find so much joy in life," she says.
After she left Tanzania, she volunteered with a British Red Cross refugee unit; earned a certificate in peace studies from Coventry University; and got a job as a fund-raiser for a seafarer's charity in London. Often, her volunteer work took her to the House of Lords. That was where she heard financial analyst Stephen Zarlenga speak about monetary reform.
She was impressed and soon was hired to become Zarlenga's assistant at the Chicago-based American Monetary Institute. It was that work that took her and Zarlenga to Dennis' office.
At MacLaine's house, they discovered each other
While Dennis was sure of his attraction at their initial meeting, he didn't know how Elizabeth felt. Several nights later, in his Washington office, he sat at his desk and thought about her. "Basically, I asked for a sign," he says. Seconds later, ping! went his computer, alerting him to an e-mail.
It was from Elizabeth. The first line read, "This has no connection to work." Dennis was ecstatic.
She was forwarding an e-mail from one of her friends that related to the peace legislation he had proposed as a presidential candidate. He noticed her signature quote at the end: "Knowing love I shall allow all things to come and go, to be as supple as the wind and take everything that comes with great courage. My heart is as open as the sky."
This gave Dennis hope.
The two e-mailed each other regularly. While the e-mails were businesslike, each of them had a deeper agenda: They were attracted to one another. A couple of weeks after their first meeting, while she was in Arizona with her boss for more meetings, she wrote Dennis an e-mail telling him where she was.
"Really? I'm going to be in New Mexico tomorrow," Dennis wrote back.
Elizabeth responded, "So will we!"
Several hours later, Elizabeth went shopping before leaving for New Mexico. She bought an opal ring - her birthstone. For reasons she can't explain, she decided to call it her "Dennis ring."
Elizabeth and her boss met Dennis in Albuquerque, where the congressman invited them to lunch the next day at his friend Shirley MacLaine's house in Santa Fe. While she was at MacLaine's, Elizabeth's phone rang. It was her mother, calling from England.
"Mum, you'll never guess who I'm having lunch with - Shirley MacLaine!" Elizabeth put the actress on the phone.
Julia Massey had read MacLaine's memoir, "Out on a Limb." After reading that book in the 1980s, Massey, who had worked as a secretary in London, decided to train to become a healer. She learned how to provide alternative therapies like massage and aromatherapy to clients with health problems. Eventually, she built a healing center called The Sanctuary next to the family cottage.
"I changed my life - my whole career - because of your book," she told MacLaine.
Later at lunch, the actress, a longtime friend of Dennis, invited Elizabeth and Zarlenga to stay overnight.
"Dennis and I stayed up, sitting by the fire, talking until half past 6 in the morning," Elizabeth recalls. They professed their love for each other; within a few days they decided to marry.
"We realized our life vision was the same, our outlook was the same," Elizabeth says. "It was a leap of faith, but based on a deep knowing."
That Sunday, driving out of Santa Fe with her boss, Elizabeth looked down at the ring she had bought in Arizona. For the first time, she noticed how the stone was inlaid in silver.
The design of the silver was two capital Ks, back to back.
Difference in age not a problem
Several days later, Elizabeth talked to her father, Graham Harper, who lives in Coventry, England. "I've met the man of my dreams," she told him.
Her father had a few questions. What's his name, where does he live, what does he do?
Then: How old is he?
"He's just a bit older than you," Elizabeth told her 56-year-old father.
Her dad paused. "So long as you know what you are doing," he told her.
A few weeks later, Elizabeth called her father again to say she wanted to get married.
"You can't," he said. "He hasn't asked me yet."
So Dennis got on the phone with his future father-in-law.
"And once I spoke with him and he told me how fond he was of Elizabeth, it was fine," Harper says. "Elizabeth is my best friend, and she's got a very good head on her shoulders."
Elizabeth's mother was a bit concerned about her daughter's plan. An American politician? In England, people mostly hear about America's conservative political figures. She couldn't imagine Elizabeth with such a man.
"But then I went to Dennis's Web site and I realized he was so much like Elizabeth," Massey says. "It just seemed heaven-sent."
She, too, found the age difference - Elizabeth's 27 years to Dennis's 58 - insignificant. "This is about a meeting of souls."
Of course, the age difference has garnered them attention.
"People who see us together understand - they see our connection," Elizabeth says. "And it's not like I'm some ditsy young thing and he's an old fogey. He has the wisdom of an ancient and the energy of youth."
Dennis says, "I've never seen myself as time-bound. When you make a connection on a soul level, age is not important."
As for having a family - Elizabeth says she would like children some day - Dennis says, "There's no problem there."
In early July, Elizabeth visited Dennis in Cleveland. On July 5, the two went to the Cleveland Orchestra concert at Public Square, and he showed her around downtown.
She loved the view from the Mall next to the convention center, with the graceful peace memorial fountain on the south end and the lake on the north.
"This is the place I want to get married," she told Dennis.
They set the date for August so family members could travel from England.
Among the group of 17 family and friends were attendants who symbolized Elizabeth's international travels. Besides her sister, Verity, there was Elizabeth Jane Dunn, a native of Ireland; Davinder Marway, whom Elizabeth met in India; and Stellar Obeo Mamotto, a friend she met in Tanzania (and for whom Elizabeth found a scholarship to a college in England).
Before they arrived, Elizabeth chose a dress for each bridesmaid. She already had her dress. A few years earlier, while shopping in London with girlfriends, she found a regal ivory gown with a chiffon train that flowed off the shoulders. It fit perfectly, off the rack.
She stored the dress inside a trunk that her great-great-grandfather had carried to World War I. All her mother had to do was send the dress to Cleveland.
Julia Massey and Graham Harper both say they found Cleveland beautiful, and came to adore Dennis.
Harper said he was amazed at how, when he traveled with Dennis throughout the city and suburbs, strangers would approach and thank him for his work.
"At first I was skeptical, but then I realized he couldn't afford to pay that many people," Harper says jovially.
Time is spent working with Dennis
These days, Elizabeth still does some work with the American Monetary Institute. She's also adding her personal touches to the couple's West Side home. Inspired by Dennis' vegan diet, she has become a vegan as well, eschewing all animal products, including dairy.
"Dennis and I go to loads of community events, so I am getting to know my new home city and the people within it," says Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth arrived in the spring, she expected to spend six months in the United States and then return to England. She only brought summery clothes with her.
"I wasn't prepared to be living here, so I'm taking it slowly, exploring my new life," she says.
She doesn't plan to look for other employment.
"I couldn't see there being any job of greater importance than working with Dennis - we have such a partnership. I travel with him, and we spend the majority of our time in each other's company."
A sign in a sign from his campaign
Dennis' bachelorhood became part of his run for president last year, with a contest held to find him a mate. The dates didn't pan out, but something unusual happened in the spring of 2004, a year before he met Elizabeth. A group of supporters he visited in Brooklyn, N.Y., painted an 8-foot-long banner, heralding "Dennis Kucinich, the Peace Candidate."
The detailed painting had a series of figures, people of all races and ethnicities forming an even row, from one side of the banner to the other.
Dennis put the banner away, and forgot about it until a few weeks ago. Then he took it out of the box and unfurled it to show Elizabeth.
Stunned, he said, "Wow."
In the middle of the row of painted figures, standing head and shoulders above all of them, is a woman in a white gown, with long red hair.
Music:
All time Favorite Bands: ColdPlay, Sean Paul
Favorite Songs: ColdPlay - Clocks
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Favorite Album: Can’t choose!
Favorite Music Video: Fat Boy Slim Christopher Walking
Current Favorite Artists/Bands: Katie Turnstall
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (Lyrics)
By Jimmy Page and Robert Plant
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
And when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
And you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook there's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forest will echo with laughter
And it makes me wonder
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen
Yes there are two paths you can go by
but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
Your head is humming and it won't go in case you don't know
The piper's calling you to join him
Dear lady can't you hear the wind blow and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
And when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed
With a word she can get what she came for
And she's buying a stairway to heaven. FADE.
Movies:
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Elizabeth Kucinich talks about NAFTA:
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Elizabeth Kucinich talks about Nuclear Power:
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Elizabeth Kucinich talks about NASA:
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Elizabeth Kucinich talks about the Prison Systems:
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Elizabeth Kucinich talks about Universal Health Care:
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Elizabeth Kucinich talks about Voting Integrity:
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Elizabeth Kucinich talks about Nuclear Power and Iran:
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Elizabeth Kucinich talks about Green Possibilities:
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Elizabeth Kucinich talks about Impeachment and Health Care:
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The above videos were recorded on Sunday November 11, 2007 in Denver at the Colorado for Kucinich fundraiser brunch held at the Mercury Café.
Television:
We don't have an antenna for the TV.
Books:
The Bronze Horseman
Heroes:
My beautiful husband and anyone else who embraces PEACE!
