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California to Central Europe with Social Justice Activist, Septuagenarian, Berne Weiss [Ep 14]

6 October 2021

My guest in this episode of the Women Who Walk Podcast is Berne Weiss. Berne moved from California to Central Europe following the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. An activist, Berne is also a Quaker, working for peace and social justice. Now in her late 70s, her stories of coming of age during the cultural revolution of the '60s, and eventually relocating to Hungary, where she lived and worked through the country's transition from communism to a 'sort of democracy' are a fascinating reflection on a slice of history that echoes something of the… Video by YouTube channel.

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