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Since the late 1960s he has been active in antiwar demonstrations and resistance, focusing increasingly on antinuclear protests. He acted as "spokesman" for a group of "disarmament activists" active throughout the 1980s in
Connecticut. While most of the attention generated by the protests appears to
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Kobasa, whose "seemingly average existence has been punctuated by a dozen arrests and short stints in jail," has participated in a range of nonviolent antiwar and human-rights protests since the late 1960s. These demonstrationsâand Kobasa's philosophyâare consistent with postmodern
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Collective in West Haven commemorating the workers who died in the 1911
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Among his recent activities, Kobasa was the "main facilitator" of an Iraq war memorial established in late 2007 in New Haven's
Broadway Triangle, and was a speaker at a 2009 demonstration protesting racial profiling in
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and other major newspapers, his cause was taken up by a number of political and religious publications. To theologian
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