Word: petra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Gert had been an officer in the German military until 1980, when he opposed the use of nuclear missiles in Europe and was forced to resign. Although very soon after its founding there was a a split in the Green Party, Petra and Gert never gave up their fight for ecology and world peace. They would travel around Europe giving talks and attending conferences. Petra worked so hard, and for so many causes, that she would only sleep four hours per night...
...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...
From the very day we met her she became an incredibly loyal and generous friend. Always smiling and full of enthusiasm, Petra was one of the warmest and most charismatic people at the symposium and her uncompromising fight for human rights and ecology was conveyed in a firm and noble manner...
Gert was the more quiet of the two and Petra did most of the talking for both of them. They were incredibly close and virtually inseparable and would often go off on their own during the conference. Having lived together for several years, they were not only lovers but also partners in their relentless activism in the Green movement in Germany. Gert was 25 years her elder, yet this difference in age seemed completely secondary to their relationship...