Dallas Peace Center Award Susan will be remembered with a Memorial Award at the Dallas Peace Center's 16th Annual Peacemaker Awards Dinner on December 5, 2002. More information can be found on the Dallas Peace Center's website.

Here's Susan with Radiation Rangers in full regalia.

Jennifer Harbury was in Guatemala, trying to find her disappeared husband and needed a bodyguard to stay with her. Who answered the call? Mighty Susan!

With thanks to Jennifer K.Harbury for permission to post the following section from her book, Searching for Everardo, Warner Books, copyright 1997

The Opening Shot
Guatemala, September 1993
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"Susan Lee arrives from Texas the same day to take their [Pat & Janet] place and accompany me through the streets of the City, for I dare not be alone. Assassinations and kidnappings fill the papers, and the scandal over the case is growing by the day, appearing even in the heavily censored Guatemalan press in bits and pieces. There is furious tension in the air, like static before a storm, but I cannot keep a low profile just now. This is my long-awaited chance and I must not waste it. I shout my story defiantly into long-distance phone lines to faraway press offices and fax summaries to every human rights group I can think of. I have proof now! I have proof that they took Everardo alive. Now it is time to call in my chips, demand help and protests from all of those with the "wait and see" attitude before. Now it is time for action, whether the army likes it or not, and they definitely don't like it.

Susan seems comfortable enough with the chaotic situation and my own wild-eyed attitude. She is my own age, tiny and slim, with a headful of thick graying curls, and she clearly likes a good fight herself. We sit up late at night while I fill her in on the background facts, and she laughs out loud at my wicked asides and plots for future mayhem if they don't turn over Everardo. When I tell her our first task in the morning is a visit to the minister of defense, she doesn't bat an eye. This woman is tough and street-smart and definitely on my side. I fall asleep feeling confident."

From: Diane D'Arrigo, Nuclear Information and Resource Service , Washington DC

Susan Lee was a premier antinuclear activist, competent, energetic, ready for action be it TV or radio studios, the halls of Congress, the Nevada desert, the roads across this country or the streets of Germany. I know for a fact that she was absolutely essential to the victory at Sierra Blanca, Texas. And she was involved many aspects of many nuclear struggles.

Attached is a photo of Susan Lee Solar taken in March of 1997 in Dannenberg, Germany, the point where the railroad tracks end and nuclear waste casks are unloaded from trains and loaded onto trucks to travel 8 more miles to Gorleben. Susan was part of massive protests that took place then and will continue to take place against irradiated fuel shipments. She is holding a "RadAlert" geiger counter reading 123 counts per minute at about 50 feet from the irradiated fuel casks. (The normal background in that area was 10-15 counts per minute on that detector. Closer to the casks the readings went up into the 500's and higher.)

We love you and miss you, Susan.

Diane D'Arrigo and NIRS

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