No Sex - Update

Thanks to Ilana for this tip. Leymah Gboweehttp was on The Colbert Report last night. Here is the site:
www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/233532/july-14-2009/leymah-gbowee

If you are not familiar with her, she is the subject of the movie, Pray the Devil Back to Hell. This is a documentary about a group of women who organized to force the men of Liberia to end the civil war there. She started organizing women in her own Christian church and then they joined forces with Muslim women. They formed the Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET). They used things like a sex strike. That is probably where the women of Kenya got the idea, not from the Greek play, Lysistrata. They also barricaded the men who were in Ghana for peacetalks in the building where they were negotiating. When the negotiators sent guards out to remove the women, they threatened to strip naked in public which is considered very bad luck in many cultures of west Africa. A peace deal was made!

You can read Leymah's amazing story and how the film got made in Oprah's magazine. (Now that's a first for Conflicts class!)
http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/200812_omag_liberia

Check out Colbert and the Oprah magazine. Colbert is in his usual rare form.