Taking Human Dignity Advocates to the next level.
Archives: Kathy Paterno
Kathy Paterno – My first Caucus
When the initial leaders of Crook County’s Human Dignity Advocates left town, they asked Kathy and her husband Phil to attend the ROP Caucus in their place. Here, Kathy describes how they were received by ROP staff organizers – and the critical things she learned there.
Kathy Paterno – The relationship
How Kathy was inspired to take on and lead an ambitious civic engagement campaign in Crook County for the 2008 elections.
Kathy Paterno – The 2008 elections
From a hesitant handful to 200-strong? Growing a group for the long haul through election-time doorknocking.
Kathy Paterno – ROP’s role
Who was behind and who was out front in the 2006 arrest of 7 grandmothers that staged a sit-in at US Senator Greg Walden’s office?
Kathy Paterno – The community response
What you see is not always what you get. The response of Kathy’s colleagues and family to her 2006 arrest for sitting-in at Greg Walden’s office in protest of his support of the Iraq & Afghanistan wars.
Kathy Paterno – Our sit-in
What’s the story? An inside perspective on the hard (and humorous!) decisions that 7 grandmothers from Central Oregon had to make when they chose to sit-in at the office of US Senator Greg Walden to protest his support of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and demand his accountability.
Kathy Paterno – The Cost of War frame
How can we talk about war in a way that might change the hearts of our “pro-war” neighbors?
Kathy Paterno – When it hit me
A critical moment of politicization (and the dinner conversations that set the stage).
Kathy Paterno – The people in charge know what they are doing
For nearly all her life, Kathy had trusted and believed that those in power knew what they were doing. Then, suddenly, something shifted.