Judith Karpova, professional agitator.

While Pam Duke was jumping up and down like Chavez in Argentina, the other leader of Sunday's protest against Kelder Farm's buildings — Jackie and Chris Kelder were serving breakfast to Town's residents at the Accord Firehouse — shoved a video camera in my face. She new my name, "from Pam Duke" she said. She told me hers: Judith Karpova.

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The crowd, some dressed in grim-reaper masks, cheered at honking cars that responded to shouts of "Break the chains of death. More world, less bank." They circulated photos of their two comrades who were arrested. Lisa Kuhn, 19, of Salt Lake City, and Judith Karpova, 54, of Hoboken, were charged with criminal trespassing, criminal mischief and possession of burglary tools, the authorities said. The two used bolt cutters to cut the chain on a trap door to the roof of the hotel before unfurling the banner, which read "World Bank and IMF = Corporate Colonialism."

Faced with tens of thousands of dollars in fines and the prospect of future criminal charges for traveling to Iraq, one anti-war activist is speaking out, challenging the federal government's right to punish her for a 2003 visit to the Middle-Eastern nation. Judith Karpova, a long-time activist, interfaith minister, and freelance writer, said she hopes three other US citizens also under investigation will join in her public fight.

Judith Karpova, from Kerhonkson, NY, author, nonviolent activist and one of the International Human Shields who traveled to Iraq just before "Shock and Awe" is getting on a plane to Crawford this week to join other Human Shields in Crawford, Texas in support of Cindy Sheehan.

"The gathering opposing the WTO in Seattle opened up an experience and a vision of an alternative society. It opened it up on the streets and on the airwaves, no matter how embattled or what the commentary, and held it open long enough for it to sink in."
— Judith Karpova, Socialist Party, NYC

The feds say Judith Karpova of Kerhonkson owes the government $6,700 for violating economic sanctions against Iraq.

There would be a representative of the leadership in each affinity group," recalls Judith Karpova of her time in Weatherman Underground. As Shin'ya Ono described the group's preparations on a Weatherman bus heading to Chicago for the Days of Rage, "In order to get to know each other and learn to move as a group, we divided ourselves into several affinity groups of six or seven persons each and did a couple of tasks together," he wrote. "We discussed the functions of the affinity group, what running and fighting together meant, what leadership meant, and why leadership was absolutely necessary in a military situation."

REMEMBER? The year was 1970 and a new organization, dedicated to the overthrow of the government of the United States was thrust into the public consciousness. The organization was called the Weatherman Underground. Though formally beginning in 1970 with its first of many bombings against symbols of American injustice, the origins go back many years prior. The formation of the outlooks and ideologies that led a number of young idealistic American youth into the Weather Underground began years before in the civil rights struggles of the early 1960s and the growing anti-Vietnam war movement of the mid to late decade. By the early years of the 1970s, the Weather Underground had become the prominent guerilla organization operating within the confines of the United States, and its influence was felt across the country and the world. Both to its supporters and its enemies, the Weather Underground was taken seriously as an organization dedicated to the destruction of the imperialist "Pig" order and the formation of a revolutionary society based on the principles of internationalist communism.

Judith Karpova of New York City, appearing as Lovee Greenback in a golden ensemble of dress, slippers and socks, topped with a neon green boa, proclaimed she wants to break "the world's illusion of being equal and having democracy, dahling. We've bought the candidates," she declared in her highbrow British accent. "We bought their fathers. We've been doing this for ages."

Judith Karpova is a member of the Green Party, and has been active in previous protests against the Bush administration.