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Petra Kelly co-founded Germany's Green Party in 1979 as an organization for the rights of environmentalists, feminists, pacifists and socialists. She also participated actively in the anti-nuclear coalition, and in 1983 she and her companion, Gert Bastian, were elected to Parliament as representatives of the Green Party...
...last time I saw Petra Kelly was at a conference in my home country, Mexico, in September of 1991. She and Gert Bastian had come to attend the Group of 100's "Morelia Symposium: Approaching the Year 2000," which consisted of writers and ecologists from throughout the world...
...cause of their deaths is still very unclear and confusing. Newspapers everywhere exclude the possibility of a third person being involved in the deaths. They suggest that Gert Bastian despaired and shot Petra Kelly in her sleep, then shot himself in the head, outside her bedroom. Some reports even suggest that it might have been a suicide pact...
...been nominated for the Andrei Sakharov Award of $100,000, with which, if she had received it, she planned to open a human rights office in Germany. Both she and Gert Bastian had many projects for the future and were growing equally distressed at the tide of right-wing activism and violence in Germany, about which Gert had just published a very angry article...
...film also contains an interesting paradox. It is heartening to see reading touted as an important, powerful activity after dozens of films like Joysticks and Footloose touting the mindless. But, ironically, Bastian does not read the book curled up at home in front of the fire; he cuts a math test and spends the night in the school's attic reading by candlelight. Sure, reading and imagination are important--but they're not complete and absolute excuses for ignoring everything else...