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	Marla Ruzicka, RIP - Salon.com
		Marla Ruzicka founded the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) in 2003, an NGO that began as a one-woman operation and grew to include dedicated Iraqis who compiled statistics of Iraqi civilian casualties.
		Marla was the activities director on a cruise liner in the most hellish seas, and she knew how to dance.
		Marla Ruzicka was a true enemy of war and she triumphed over it again and again with every person she helped.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2005/04/18/marla/index.html (1736 words)

	Marla Ruzicka
		Ruzicka's car was in the way, and it took the hit.
		Ruzicka had invested her adult life into coaxing people to see through the term "collateral damage." To her, it didn't so much matter who started the fight, it didn't so much matter how the hurt happened: she saw people, real people, with names and faces and families.
		Ruzicka was a constant gadfly to the U.S. military, visiting officers again and again.
	etymonline.com /columns/ruzicka.htm (1434 words)

	The Life and Death of Marla Ruzicka
		Marla was the founder of a humanitarian organization called "Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict," which is devoted to helping the families of Afghan and Iraqi civilians who have been killed or suffered other losses as a result of U.S. military operations.
		Marla died in Baghdad on Saturday from a car bomb, while she was doing the work she loved and which so many people around the world admired her for.
		There were several Civil Affairs officers with whom Marla worked like a team, she finding the cases, and they arranging for the plane to airlift a wounded child to a hospital, or some other type of assistance.
	home.comcast.net /~ndpwnew/PeaceAndWar/MarlaRuzicka.htm (1021 words)

	Marla Ruzicka, RIP - Salon
		Marla Ruzicka founded the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) in 2003, an NGO that began as a one-woman operation and grew to include dedicated Iraqis who compiled statistics of Iraqi civilian casualties.
		Marla was the activities director on a cruise liner in the most hellish seas, and she knew how to dance.
		Marla Ruzicka was a true enemy of war and she triumphed over it again and again with every person she helped.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/2005/04/18/marla/index.html (1661 words)

	Civilian War Victims Advocate Marla Ruzicka Mourned (Human Rights Watch, 18-4-2005)
		Ruzicka and her colleagues at CIVIC (nearly all local volunteers) worked to identify victims individually, gathering detailed information about the circumstances of their injury, their personal lives, and the impact of the war on them.
		Ruzicka, who had decreased her time in Iraq due to security concerns, had traveled to Nepal in December 2004 to investigate the civil war raging there and to assess the possibility of expanding her work there.
		“Marla’s passion for her cause was obvious and infectious, but it was the accuracy of her data and the veracity of her information that made it possible for many others to rely on it,” Roth said.
	www.hrw.org /english/docs/2005/04/18/iraq10504.htm (695 words)

	The Senseless Death Of Marla Ruzicka By Patrick Cockburn and Andrew Buncombe
		The senator confirmed yesterday that Marla was behind the appropriation of almost $20m in aid to Afghanistan and Iraq.
		While Marla proved to be adept at negotiating the bureaucracy of Washington and persuading its politicians to help - she once pressed the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, about civilian casualties - it was on the ground, working with people, that she was probably most at home.
		Marla was raised in Lakeport, California, the youngest of six.
	www.countercurrents.org /iraq-cockburn190405.htm (882 words)

	Remembering a friend killed in Iraq, Marla Ruzicka
		Marla was working for a humanitarian organization she founded called CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict), which documents cases of innocent civilians hurt by war.
		Marla first came to the Global Exchange office when she was still in high school in Lakeport.
		Following the US invasion of Afghanistan, Marla traveled to Afghanistan with a Global Exchange delegation and she was so moved by the plight of the civilian victims that she dedicated the rest of her too short life to helping innocent victims of war.
	www.globalexchange.org /update/press/marla.html (752 words)

	Marla Ruzicka (1976-2005)
		Entrance will be through the adjacent Dirksen Senate Building, at the corner of First and C Streets, N.E. Marla Ruzicka, who at the age of 28 was killed by a car bomb in Baghdad on April 16, was a passionate advocate for innocent victims of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
		Marla's work in Afghanistan and Iraq with her organization Campaign for Innocent Victims In Conflict (CIVIC) brought much needed attention to the all too often overlooked civilian deaths and losses suffered during these wars.
		Marla will be remembered for her tireless work for justice and also for her unyielding zest for life, remarkable capacity for joy, and deep loyalty to friends and family.
	marlaruzicka.blogspot.com (1178 words)

	Marla Ruzicka \| Iraq \| Guardian Unlimited
		Marla Ruzicka, who has been killed by a car bomber near Baghdad airport, was an extraordinary, one-person American aid agency, who worked tirelessly to get compensation for victims of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
		Marla campaigned relentlessly by telephone and email, as well as by personal lobbying, and persuaded US Senator Patrick Leahy to put an amendment into a foreign aid bill to give $2.5m for Afghan victims.
		Born in the small town of Lakeport, California, Marla became politically active at the age of 15, when she was suspended from high school for leading a protest against the first Gulf war.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1462967,00.html (1041 words)

	WorkingForChange-Schlussel carves up Marla Ruzicka
		On a recent Saturday afternoon in Iraq, Marla Ruzicka and her colleague Faiz Ali Salim were killed by a suicide bomber while on the Baghdad Airport road traveling to visit an Iraqi child injured by a bomb.
		Marla Ruzicka was in Iraq working with the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC), a non-governmental organization she founded in 2003, to compile statistics of Iraqi civilian casualties.
		Marla Ruzicka, to paraphrase the words of Robert Kennedy, saw things as they were and unwaveringly set about to change them.
	www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=18975 (986 words)

	Iraq: Activist Marla Ruzicka Remembered For Work In Afghanistan, Iraq - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY
		Marla Ruzicka worked tirelessly in Afghanistan and Iraq to document cases in which innocent civilians were killed during combat involving U.S. forces.
		Recknagel says that for anyone meeting Ruzicka for the first time, her optimism and youthful idealism belied what would later prove to be a pragmatic ability to mobilize large amounts of U.S. government assistance.
		Amongst all the tributes to Ruzicka since her death, it is her own quotes, published on the website of the nongovernmental group she founded, that best describe the work she had committed her life to.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/04/4ac358ad-352e-4a9b-a4c1-707b65cdb10b.html (1084 words)

	Marla Ruzicka Information
		Marla Ruzicka (December 31 1976 – April 16, 2005) was an American Green Party activist and aid worker who was killed by a car bomb blast in Baghdad.
		Ruzicka worked with the San Francisco-based human rights organization Global Exchange to pressure the US government to set up a fund for Afghan families harmed in Operation Enduring Freedom.
		Marla appears briefly in the documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room as one of the protestors who disrupts Jeffrey Skilling's speech at The Commonwealth Club.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Marla_Ruzicka (514 words)

	AlterNet: War on Iraq: Mourning Marla
		Californian Marla Ruzicka was the head of an NGO whose blend of tenacity and optimism kept her in Iraq long after almost every other humanitarian aid organization had left.
		Marla and her Iraqi driver died Saturday when their car was tragically caught between a suicide car bomber and a US military convoy.
		Marla was more than a source for a story, she was one of those quiet cheerleaders that kept me -- and the Iraqis she touched -- going almost from the moment that I arrived here three years ago.
	www.alternet.org /waroniraq/21780 (3826 words)

	The Girl Who Tried to Save the World : Rolling Stone
		Ruzicka, who had begun to demonstrate some of the classic symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, was preparing to leave Baghdad the next day for a vacation in Thailand and then a long rest back in the United States.
		Ruzicka thought it should be, and during the next several months, she and Rieser met with officials at both the State and Defense departments, hammering out a plan.
		Ruzicka had a talent for compartmentalizing the tragedies she witnessed, but gradually that compartmentalization began to wear thin.
	www.rollingstone.com /politics/story/7371965/the_girl_who_tried_to_save_the_world (6767 words)

	Remembering the Life of Marla Ruzicka
		Marla Ruzicka went to Iraq with one clear purpose -- to help Iraqis who are victims of the ongoing battle with insurgents.
		Marla went to Afghanistan in 2002, to assist the families of civilians killed or wounded in attacks.
		Marla Ruzicka, who died on her way to visit an injured Iraqi child, now joins those numbers she kept so carefully.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-04-22-voa11.cfm (476 words)

	Victims' Champion Is Killed in Iraq (washingtonpost.com)
		Ruzicka was killed Saturday on Baghdad's most dangerous road when a suicide bomber aiming for a U.S. convoy pulled up alongside her and detonated his explosives.
		Marla Ruzicka, an American, posed Friday in Baghdad with an Iraqi family that was helped by her organization to aid war victims.
		Ruzicka came from the isolated, hilly town of Lakeport, Calif. What started out as anti-war fervor during college took her to Washington, then to Afghanistan and Iraq.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A61492-2005Apr17.html (911 words)

	Marla Ruzicka - By Jennifer Abrahamson - Slate Magazine
		I was late to meet a friend for brunch at the trendy cafe where I had last dined with my 28-year-old friend Marla Ruzicka as we hammered out the details of a book we were beginning to write about her work.
		Marla and her dear friend Faiz Ali Salim—the Iraq country director of the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, the organization she founded in 2003—who had been visiting a family that had lost relatives during the U.S. bombing campaign, were both engulfed in flames and killed.
		Marla connected war reporters with these personal stories of loss and conducted door-to-door surveys, gathering a comprehensive record detailing civilian casualties, injuries, and damage in Afghanistan and Iraq.
	www.slate.com /id/2117056 (1166 words)

	Green Consciousness: Who Killed Marla Ruzicka?
		To Marlaâs credit she attempted to avoid serving the disreputable ends of her former comrades and angered them by arriving at a figure that was only one-tenth of their claim.
		Once her organization was funded, Marla headed for the offices of U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, D-VT, a warhorse of the Democratic Party Left and a veteran of its campaigns in the 1980s to prevent the Sandinista dictatorship from being toppled by the Reagan administration.
		The new director of Marla's organization, April Pedersen is described on its website as âa devoted human rights and social justice advocate,â formerly with the Institute for Policy Studies, a leftist think tank with close ties to Cuba and unsavory past relations with the Soviet bloc.
	www.greenconsciousness.org /weblog/2005/06/who-killed-marla-ruzicka.html (3046 words)

	Death in Iraq: Marla Ruzicka 1977-2005
		The people who look at Marla Ruzicka's story and become hardened in their views against the Iraqi people are the same people who would have backed the Confederacy in the Amerikan Civil War, or stood with Marie Antoinette against the French peasantry.
		Marla Ruzicka chose with open eyes and generosity to risk her life trying to alleviate some sufferings caused by her own government.
		Marla Ruzicka's death is a costly lesson for someone like the persyn who stopped at our Los Angeles demonstration yesterday to talk about who is culpable for u.$.-imperialist crimes.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/agitation/iraq/ruzicka041805.html (655 words)

	Marla Ruzicka (1976-2005): April 2005
		I first met Marla Ruzicka ten years ago when she arrived at my doorstep, an enthusiastic 16 or 17 year old with passion and drive to spare, to intern at the Bay Area Fifty Years is Enough Campaign.
		In thinking of Marla in the early years that I knew her, a story that keeps bubbling up to the surface of my memory is a very personal one.
		Marla had a gift for looking to those who’d walked a path before her in any and every aspect of life to learn what wisdom they might have to offer.
	marlaruzicka.blogspot.com /2005_04_01_archive.html (3441 words)

	The Mysterious Death of Marla Ruzicka:
		Marla Ruzicka together with her Iraqi colleague Faiz Ali Salim died as the result of collateral damage, "when a car bomb exploded nearby".
		Marla Ruzicka and her colleague Faiz Al Salaam, 43, were separate from the convoy but their ordinary car took the force of the blast, killing them both.
		Ruzicka, who was just 28 when she died, felt compelled to try to personally document as much of the suffering as she could.
	globalresearch.ca /articles/CHO504C.html (1831 words)

	"Sweet Relief" - A New Book about Humanitarian Activist Marla Ruzicka - Atlantic Review - Analysis of ...
		Marla founded the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) and convinced Congress to create an Iraqi War Victims Fund, which was named in her honor after her tragic death in April 2005.
		"Marla was alienated from much of the human rights community because she chose to work with the military instead of always against it" said Newsweek's Baghdad bureau chief.
		Marla Ruzicka was a free spirit, a savvy political operator, a wartime Erin Brockovich.
	www.atlanticreview.org /archives/410-Sweet-Relief-A-New-Book-about-Humanitarian-Activist-Marla-Ruzicka.html (1080 words)

	Marla Ruzicka: 26-Year-Old Doing 'The Right Humanitarian Thing'
		A onetime protégée of one of the world's most visible activists, Global Exchange's Medea Benjamin, Ruzicka was set on this course after 9/11 when she went to Afghanistan on a campaign to help those in the line of fire between U. troops and suspected Taliban strongholds.
		"Marla is an exceptionally determined, energetic and brave young woman who has traveled to the front lines to focus attention on an issue that too often gets ignored," he said.
		It was between her post-war sojourns to Afghanistan and Iraq that Ruzicka split amicably from Global Exchange to start her own organization, CIVIC (www.civicworldwide.org).
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/1230-08.htm (1148 words)

	"Sweet Relief" - A New Book about Humanitarian Activist Marla Ruzicka - Atlantic Review - Analysis of ...
		Marla founded the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) and convinced Congress to create an Iraqi War Victims Fund, which was named in her honor after her tragic death in April 2005.
		"Marla was alienated from much of the human rights community because she chose to work with the military instead of always against it" said Newsweek's Baghdad bureau chief.
		Marla Ruzicka was a free spirit, a savvy political operator, a wartime Erin Brockovich.
	atlanticreview.org /archives/410-Sweet-Relief-A-New-Book-about-Humanitarian-Activist-Marla-Ruzicka.html (899 words)

	Amazon.com: Sweet Relief: The Marla Ruzicka Story: Books: Jennifer Abrahamson
		An American aid worker named Marla Ruzicka and her Iraqi colleague, Faiz Ali Salim, were killed by a suicide bomber on April 16, 2005, as they drove along the road connecting Baghdad and its airport.
		Ruzicka initially came off like a blond surfer girl (she was much given to exclaiming "Dude!" and "You rock!"), but underneath the effervescent exterior was a tough-minded humanitarian advocate who had little tolerance for leftist anti-war demonstrators.
		Ruzicka understood that wars happen despite the demonstrations, and she wanted to do something concrete to alleviate the subsequent damage to human life.
	www.amazon.com /Sweet-Relief-Marla-Ruzicka-Story/dp/1416917780 (821 words)

	FrontPage Magazine
		Marla Ruzicka, a 28-year-old political activist, was killed in Iraq on April 16 when a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of contractors on the airport road, blowing up the Mercedes she was in with her translator Faiz Al-Salaam.
		The speech Marla arranged was a ritual denunciation of America’s anti-Communist foreign policy and economic boycott of the Castro regime – as if the boycott and not Castro had reduced Cuba to Honduras-level poverty from its position before his seizure of power as the second richest country in all of Latin America.
		In the crisis hour, Marla traveled to Iraq under the aegis of Code Pink, along with a delegation whose members intended to act as human shields to protest against the efforts of their own country to reign in one of the most criminal regimes of the modern era.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17933 (3511 words)

	Giraffe Heroes Project
		Marla Ruzicka, named a Giraffe Hero in 1996 for her early work as a humanitarian, has been killed in Baghdad on her way to aid an Iraqi family.
		In addition to the very real risks in traveling to volatile zones in foreign countries, Ruzicka has encountered opposition and reprimands in her own country for her political and social activism.
		For the story of Marla Ruzicka's work as an adult, just Google her name and read the grieving stories of the reporters who knew her.
	www.giraffe.org /hero_ruzicka.html (499 words)

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