Editing Petra Kelly (section)

=== German Green Party ===

Kelly was one of the founders of ''Die Grünen'', the [[Alliance '90/The Greens|German Green Party]] in 1979. In 1983 she was elected to the [[Bundestag]] via the [[Electoral list]] as a Member of the [[Bundestag]] representing [[Bavaria]]. She was subsequently re-elected in 1987 with a higher share of the vote.

In 1981, Kelly was involved in a protest of 400,000 people in Bonn against nuclear weapons. In 1982, [[Gerhard Schröder]] wrote a contribution in ''[[Die Zeit]]'' for the book ''Prinzip Leben'', edited by Kelly and [[Jo Leinen]], which discussed ecological problems and a possible nuclear war.

In the same year, Kelly received the [[Right Livelihood Award]] "...for forging and implementing a new vision uniting ecological concerns with [[disarmament]], [[social justice]], and [[human rights]]."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rightlivelihood.org/kelly.html |title=The Right Livelihood Award recipient 1982 |publisher=rightlivelihood.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621133016/http://www.rightlivelihood.org/kelly.html |archive-date=21 June 2015 }}</ref>

On 12 May 1983, Kelly, [[Gert Bastian]] and three other Green Bundestag members unfurled a banner on [[Alexanderplatz]] in East Berlin, which said "''The Greens – [[Swords to ploughshares|Swords to Ploughshares]]".'' After being briefly arrested, they met with East German opposition parties. The East German authorities tolerated this since the West German Greens repudiated the [[NATO Double-Track Decision]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YgokUVy4LJsC&pg=PA188|title=Kalter Krieg und heisser Frieden. Der Einfluss der SED und ihrer westdeutschen Verbündeten auf die Partei 'Die Grünen'|last=Baron|first=Udo|publisher=Lit Verlag|year=2003|isbn=3-8258-6108-2|page=188|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mdr.de/damals/archiv/artikel85588.html|title=Petra Kelly und Gert Bastian|website=MDR: Damals im Osten}}</ref> In October 1983, [[Erich Honecker]], the leader of the German Democratic Republic, met Petra Kelly, Gert Bastian and other Greens. Kelly wore a pullover with the words "Swords to Ploughshares" on it. She demanded the release of all prisoners of the East German peace movement and asked Honecker why he repressed something in the GDR which he supported in the West.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_xg7G9JtmUC&pg=PA247|title=Endspiel: Die Revolution von 1989 in der DDR|last=Kowalczuk|first=Ilko-Sascha|publisher=C.H. Beck|year=2009|isbn=978-3-406-58357-5|edition=2nd revised|location=Munich|page=247}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.boell.de/stiftung/archiv/archiv-2122.html|title=Das Petra-Kelly-Archiv|date=5 March 2008|website=Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung}}</ref>

Kelly wrote the book ''Fighting for Hope'' in 1984, published by [[South End Press]]. The book is an urgent call for a world free from violence between North and South, men and women, ourselves and our environment.<ref>{{cite book |title=Fighting for Hope |first=Petra |last=Kelly |publisher=South End Press |year=1984|isbn=0-89608-216-4 }}</ref>

In the final years of her life, Kelly became increasingly estranged from most of her party colleagues owing to the pragmatic turn taken by the Greens at the time, while she continued to oppose any alliance with traditional political parties.