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Nadine Bloch is an organizer, puppetista and mother living in the Washington DC area. She studied Environemntal Policy at Cornell and has worked for Greenpeace and the Ruckus Society. She was one of the principal organizers of the anti-globalization protests in Seattle in 1999.

Bloch is a non-violent direct action trainer and local organizer.

Family
She lives with her daughter Margot in Takoma Park, Md.

Stolen Text
Common Dream article

A fixture in leftist politics for 20 of her 38 years, the Connecticut native and Takoma Park resident holds a boat captain's license and is an avid climber who has been arrested at numerous protests from Des Moines to New Jersey. While working for Greenpeace in 1994, for example, she and her compatriots scaled Manhattan's 47-story Time-Life skyscraper to protest the firm's use of bleached paper.

In Washington, where she has lived and worked for a decade now, Bloch has become adept at organizing "guerrilla theater," making larger-than-life, Mardi Gras-style puppets of the type that will swarm the capital in coming days. She is also a key instigator behind the Washington Action Group (WAG), which garnered a lot of attention with its "Wag the Dog" drill corps protesting the bombings in Iraq.

"A big visual, a huge evil-looking corporate puppet, can be worth a thousand words," said Bloch, who hasn't let pregnancy slow down her work on the IMF-World Bank protest. "This is all about building a movement. One of the ways you build a movement is to reach out to people in ways they can understand."

Bloch's deep ties to the environmental movement are almost a pedigree for this effort. Groups such as Greenpeace, Earth First! and the Rainforest Action Network figure prominently on the resumes of many organizers

long interview

Quotes
"Sometimes you get someone who never really thought about the nuclear arms race or who doesn't care or whatever, and they will bake a covered dish and bring it to a potluck. And then they are drawn into the whole process from a place where they feel comfortable. "