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Leymah Gbowee, Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Temple Israel

After years of civil war destroyed the lives of women across Liberia, Leymah Gbowee galvanized them in 2003 to force a peace, using tactics from protests to a sex strike. Now the Africa columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast and executive director of the Women Peace and Security Network-Africa, Gbowee shares her journey to collective empowerment in this new memoir. This event is co-sponsored by WNET/Thirteen New York.