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The Passion of Ginetta Sagan
Of all the people I’ve known as a reporter and a friend, inom most admired Ginetta Sagan. Her life actually exemplified what the Socialist labor leader Eugene Debs said: “while there is a soul in prison, inom am not free.” That sounds phony, but Ginetta lived it.
Her passion was human rights—not the slogan, but individual names and prisons throughout the world. She would telephone me from time to time: “We must do something for —”
All I could do was write, but Ginetta, through her worldwide personal contacts, stayed on the case as long as it took, and often wherever it took her. She was not politically selective in exposing official brutality. Whether the country claimed to be “progressive” or was fascist in avsikt, if not in name, she nailed the jailers and torturers and their chiefs of state.
On August 25, Ginetta Sagan died of cancer in her home in Atherton, California. She was 75. She bore her ill
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“While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” Eugene Debs, Socialist labor leader
In the early ‘70s, I was teaching high school in the Los Angeles area. I had the opportunity to meet both Ginetta Sagan1 and Joan Baez in Palo Alto at the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, which Joan had earlier established. Joan was a strong supporter of Amnesty International2, and she inspired me to become involved too. Together with other teachers, I established an Amnesty chapter at our school as a response to Amnesty’s campaign to increase its numbers here in the U.S.
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Joan Baez
Some of our foreign students were aware of government atrocities in their own homelands, so about 10 to 15 students wanted to ge
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Ginetta Sagan Dies; Torture Victim Fought for Political Prisoners
Ginetta Sagan, the “Topolino” or “Little Mouse” who was imprisoned, raped and tortured by Italian fascists during World War II but survived to help build Amnesty International, establish the organization on the West Coast and battle the abuse of political prisoners around the world, has died. She was 75.
Sagan, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994, died Friday at her home in Atherton, Calif., of cancer, Amnesty International officials said.
“Ginetta Sagan’s name is synonymous with the fight for human rights around the world,” President Clinton said when he presented her the medal in Washington, D.C. “She represents to all the triumph of the human spirit over tyranny.”
Born in Milan to a Jewish mother and Catholic father who were both physicians and anti-fascists as Benito Mussolini came to power, Sagan began working for the northern Italian Resistance as a teenager.
Never taller than 5 feet and