{"id":1471,"date":"2015-05-11T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2015-05-11T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T20:00:04","slug":"peg-gallagher-devoted-her-life-to-nonviolence-and-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/11\/peg-gallagher-devoted-her-life-to-nonviolence-and-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Peg Gallagher devoted her life to nonviolence and social justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Omaha World-Herald<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most people spent New Year\u2019s Eve 1999 either celebrating or worrying about Y2K \u2014 the impact of the new millennium on everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>Never one to follow convention, Margaret Sheehan Fitzgerald Gallagher did something different: With her stepdaughter, she traveled to Nevada and joined a nuclear weapons protest at a testing site. She was 81 at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Friends and relatives expected nothing less. Gallagher, known as Peg, had a passion for social justice issues such as racism, the death penalty and wars she considered to be unjust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWar and violence \u2014 she was just completely and utterly against it,\u201d said granddaughter Joan Manriquez of New York City. \u201cShe spent a lot of time and energy protesting that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/news\/metro\/omahan-peg-gallagher-went-to-great-lengths-to-press-for\/article_1f199456-26f5-5e4b-846b-77031b4fdc81.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnagentleman.com\/service-listings\/entry\/gallagher-peg-sheehan-fitzgerald-age-96\" target=\"_blank\">Read Peg&#8217;s obituary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Omaha World-Herald: Most people spent New Year\u2019s Eve 1999 either celebrating or worrying about Y2K \u2014 the impact of the new millennium on everyday life. Never one to follow convention, Margaret Sheehan Fitzgerald Gallagher did something different: With her stepdaughter, she traveled to Nevada and joined a nuclear weapons protest at a testing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/11\/peg-gallagher-devoted-her-life-to-nonviolence-and-social-justice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peg Gallagher devoted her life to nonviolence and social justice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[11,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}