What is Petra Kelly?
[[File:Petra Kelly.jpg|thumb|Petra Kelly]] [[File:Jardi Petra Kelly sign, Barcelona Spain.JPG|thumb|Petra Kelly Garden in [[Barcelona]]]] '''Petra Karin Kelly''' (November 23, 1947 – October 1, 1992) was a [[Germany|German]] politician, peace activist and one of the founders of the [[Alliance '90/The Greens|Green Party]] of Germany. Kelly was born in [[Günzburg]]. Her stepfather was a US officer. Her original father and her mother were German. Her family moved to the US in 1959. She went to school in both countries. From 1966 to 1970 he studied political sciences in [[Washington, D.C.]]. Kelly campaigned for [[Robert F. Kennedy]] in the 1968 U.S. elections. She admired [[Martin Luther King]] and was an anti-[[Vietnam War]] protester. She graduated in 1970 in Washington and got another exam in 1971 in [[Amsterdam]]. Then she returned to West Germany. She worked for the [[European Commission]] in [[Brussels]] from 1971 to 1983. She was one of the founders of the Green Party in Germany in 1979 – the first Green Party worldwide. From 1983 to 1990 she was a member of the [[Bundestag]] for the Greens. Kelly received the [[Right Livelihood Award]] in 1982. Petra Kelly, who was seriously ill, died in [[Bonn]] in 1992, aged 44. She had been shot by her partner, politician and former general [[Bert Bastian]], who committed suicide afterwards. == Other websites == * ''The Life and Death of Petra Kelly'' by Sara Parkin, Rivers Oram Press/Pandora, 1995 ({{ISBN|0-04-440940-0}}) * ''Thinking Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism, and Nonviolence'' by Petra K. Kelly, Parallax Press, Berkeley, California, 1994 ({{ISBN|0-938077-62-7}}) * ''Nonviolence Speaks to Power'' by Petra K. Kelly, [http://www.globalnonviolence.org/nv_speaks_to_power.htm online book] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061126201421/http://www.globalnonviolence.org/nv_speaks_to_power.htm |date=2006-11-26 }}, almost complete text (also, out of print, published by Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii, 1992, {{ISBN|1-880309-0