Dorothy Stowe

Dorothy Anne Stowe (née Rabinowitz; December 22, 1920 – July 23, 2010[1]) was an American-born Canadian social activist and environmentalist, best known for co-founding Greenpeace.

[2] While a college student, she organized and served as the first president of a social workers local of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

In 1968, with Jim and Mary Bohlen, the Stowes founded a group called the Don't Make a Wave Committee to protest announced U.S. nuclear bomb tests on Amchitka Island in Alaska.

The boat was intercepted by the United States Coast Guard, but the resulting publicity helped bring about the cancellation of the tests.

In 2005, when Irish rock band U2 played a concert in Vancouver, they invited Stowe, and Bono dedicated the song "Original of the Species" to her.