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REVIEW BY LYNN MCNVICOL

he first thing to catch the eye in the show
room is an “earth’.’ beach ball dressed up like
. a person, arms attached and rigged up as a
backpack to go on trips such as the recent Global

 

War1ni_t1giWalk along Route 7 that cartoonist Leah _

Witteriberg participated in. The beach ball charac-
ter, Code Green, is a sort-of Mother Earth mascot.

;Attached to Code Green, is, of course, one of
Leah’s cartoons titled “She Ain't Heavy, She’s My
Mother.”

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Mountains, and many were published in the
_"_l'9f'r’(_)s’ with Vennont.’s,CommonWoman monthly

'  Vera,  attended the cartoon

show and was active in the Burlington Women’s
Community at the time, remembers Leah as
one of the founders of CommonWom¢m, which

. Was published from about 1978-82. Leah, now a

psychotherapist in Burlington, also wrote many
articles and drew many lesbian-centered cartoons,
Lynn said. In addition, Leah was also an organizer
of the first Pride marches, which used the theme
“Out of the Mountains and Into the Streets” — fore-

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We can stop global warming

runner of the name of this newspaper, Lynn noted.
In recent years, Leah’s cartoons have taken on
a more environmentalflavor, often focusing on

issues of oil and global warming, while retaining a -

feminist perspective. _

“We were always environmentalists as femi-
nists,” Lynn said, noting_ that the issues are all
connected to one another. Leah, she said, has “a
feminist mind that never stops.”

Many of the people attending the show appre-
ciated Leah’s sense of humor.

  
 

 

(L to R) Lucy Gluck, Rose Wittenberg Wallace and
Leah Wittenberg with Code Green at City Market.
PHOTO PROVIDED.

 

    
 
 

“She does a lot of play on words which I like a
lot," said Susan Smith, a neighbor of Leah’s. Susan
pointed out a cartoon picturing four varieties of
gas-guzzling vehicles, each with its miles-per-gal-
lon noted, and the tag line “Wanted for Crimes of V
Emission.” '

“I think it’s a fantastic show in every respect,"

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said Sophie Quest, a local artist. “She expresses
her politics with a good clear line and with humor,
and that’s a great way to bring her messages to
the public.” ‘

Leah said she and Lucy Gluck, also a Burl-
ington activist, long ago came to the conclusion
that “we have to do
something about
global Warming.” The

- based on Code Pink,
a Women’s peace
group - has been
employed by the
two women in their
scheme to get people

\ talking about the
environmental crisis
we seem headed for,
at places such as City
Market and Burling-
ton’s waterfront.

In April 2007,
Leah will show
her cartoons again,
downstairs from
the current show, at
City Market on the
member‘s art wall. And there's a possibility that
later this month (December), she will show a few
cartoons at ECHO, the museum at Burlington’s

Waterfront and a fitting place for Code Green to

get people interested in talking about our environ-

mental future.V

Environmental Cartoons, By Leah Wittenberg,
Center for Community and Neighborhoods, 82
S. Winooski_Ave., Burlington Above City Market,

Business Hours (call first), Ihrough December. -10,. . .

' portable Code Green ‘

  
 
 

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