Life of...
There are a lot of us Brian Fitzgeralds out there.
You've arrived at the home page of the Brian Fitzgerald who works for Greenpeace International in Amsterdam as a Communications Manager. The one who grew up in Seneca Falls New York and went to school at Georgetown University. Who lived for a time in New Hampshire, Boston, San Francisco, the UK, Paris, Rome, and Umbria, and spent time more time than he wanted to in Moscow and Kiev in the waning days of the Soviet Union. The father of Doon and Dylan.
I joined Greenpeace on February 11th, 1982 and have been put to work or volunteered over the years since then as an activist, deckhand, hot air balloon pilot, disarmament wonk, fundraiser, computer geek, speechwriter, gopher, senior manager, translator, press officer, legal assistant, and organic olive picker.
I proudly confess to having once been a long-haired hippy. In their day, Hippies led the charge to stop a war, challenged consumerism, questioned the worship of material wealth at all cost, and championed the values of love and respect for nature. Check, check, check, check, check. Hippy am I still.
And yes, I've seen the Monty Python film. The fact that they didn't call it the Life of Fred or the Life of Ralph is, well, my cross to bear.
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