About Peace Takes Courage
Ava Lowery is the 17 year old peace activist from Alabama behind the website, PeaceTakesCourage.com, and has received an amazing amount of attention. Ava's animations show the multidimensional tragedy of the Iraq war- losses of brave young soldiers to American families, and loss of innocent civilians in Iraq. Poignant and raw, Ava's youth and sincerity has attracted support from a broad base of both soldiers and activists. But her unflappable determination has drawn its share of persecution, as well. Ava received death threats from angry Bush supporters after a particularly tragic piece, "WWJD," a heartbreaking montage of photos of wounded and bloodied Iraqi children shown while a child sings "Jesus Loves Me." Many wonderful people came to Ava's defense. Cindy Sheehan wrote an article of support for her "new friend... (who) is disgusted with the war and with the Bush regime." In July of 2006 she was awarded the Buzzflash "Wings of Justice" award. Ava also received strong support from friends in the blog world, and received a warm welcome at the highly successful Yearlykos Convention. These and many more friends have helped Ava's animations receive media acclaim (NYT, CNN, The Rolling Stone, etc...) and reach an unbelievable audience of Americans who are eager to learn the truth about the Iraq War.
If you would like to schedule an interview with Ava please email us at:  interviews@peacetakescourage.com
Media
- CNN "Saturday Morning"
- MTV News
- Nick News with Linda Ellerbee
- The Mobile Press Register
- Mother Jones Magazine
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- CNN - "Blog Buzz"
- The New York Times
- The Rolling Stone - "Year Book '06"
- The Rolling Stone
- The Alan Colmes Show
- The Stacy Taylor Show
- Red Alert
- Progressive Democrats of America
- Cindy Sheehan's article about Ava
- Progressive Magazine
- Links:
- Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Gold Star Families for Peace
- Veterans for Peace
- Military Families Speak out
- Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
- AFSC
- United For Peace and Justice
- Think Progress
- Buzz Flash
- Antiwar
- Freeway Blogger
- Code Pink
- After Downing Street Coalition
- The Memory Hole
- Center For American Progress
- Who Dies For Bush Lies
- CandidateReviews.org
Awards
- NOW 2007 Woman of Action Award
- Casey Sheehan Young Peace Activist Award
- Wings of Justice Award
- Monthly Hits:
- August 2007 - 1,016,311
- July 2007 - 1,723,072
- June 2007 - 1,778,816
- May 2007 - 1,747,826
- April 2007 - 2,066,125
- March 2007 - 1,958,496
- February 2007 - 1,581,987
- January 2007 - 969,351
- December 2006 - 751,023
- November 2006 - 743,846
- October 2006 - 1,098,175
- September 2006 - 1,255,367
- August 2006 - 1,236,153
- July 2006 - 2,028,943
- June 2006 - 1,518,241
- May 2006 - 951,405
- April 2006 - 440,037
- March 2006 - 290,586
- February 2006 - 221,417
- January 2006 - 260,308
- December 2005 - 228,716
- November 2005 - 287,068
- October 2005 - 349,252
- September 2005 - 353,599
- August 2005 - 290,959
- July 2005 - 83,533


