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Bianca JaggerBianca Jagger (born Bianca Perez Morena de Macias) is a social and political activist. Different sources describe her as being well-informed, direct, impulsive and difficult, which helps her a lot in her cause. Bianca was born in Nicaragua on May 2 1950, into a well-situated family in a society where only men were valued. Her father was a businessman. Her mother was a housewife and politically very active, as she strongly opposed the Somoza regime. She influenced Bianca very much. Unfortunately, her parents divorced when she was ten and she stayed with her mother, which had to take care for four children with only a small payment and a child support. When Bianca was studying political science in Paris, she demonstrated against the Somoza regime after the massacre of students by the perpetrated by Somoza's National Guard. In Paris, she also got acquainted with French literature, among which especially Voltaire, Rousseau and Camus influenced her. She has also been fascinated by Gandhi's non-violent success and the eastern philosophy at large. She travelled in India very much. In 1971, she became the first wife of rock star Mick Jagger. Leni Riefenstahl made some known photos of them as a couple. In this time Bianca became concerned with women's rights. The couple had one daughter, Jade (born October 21, 1971), but divorced in 1979. In the 1970s and early 1980s Bianca Jagger was known as a jet-setter and party-goer, being notoriously associated with New York's nightclub Studio 54. She has had relationships with two US Democratic senators, Robert Torricelli and Christopher Dodd. The end of her marriage coincided with the victory of the Sandinista revolution. In the spring of 1979, Bianca visited Nicaragua with an International Red Cross delegation and was shocked by the brutality and oppresion that the Somoza regime carried out there. This persuaded her to commit herself to the issues of justice and human rights. In the 1980s, she fought to instruct the public about the military interventions, supported by the United States, which were directed against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and which brought much suffering of ordinary people. She has also been opposing to the death penalty and defending the rights of women and of indigenous peoples in Latin America, notably the Yanommami tribe in Brazil against the invasion of gold miners. She fought against the aerial bombardment of Serbia by NATO in 1995 during the Kosovo war, but also has all the time been supporting victims of the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. Her writings were published in several newspapers (e.g. New York Times, The Sunday Express ). From the late 1970s she collaborated with many humanitarian organizations:
She is also a member of the Twentieth Century task Force to Apprehend War criminals and of the Washington Office for Latin America . For her work, Bianca Jagger earned several awards. Especially prominent among these are the 1994 United Nations Earth Day award , the 1997 Green Globe award from the Rain Forest Alliance for her efforts on behalf of saving tropical rain forests and an "Abolitionist of the Year " award from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty . Bianca Jagger also appeared in several movies: Cocksucker Blues (1972), (1978, as Martini), The American Success Company (1979; as Corrine), The Cannonball Run (1981, as sheik's sister), In Our Hands (1984), C.H.U.D. 2 (1989), The Party's Over (2003, a documentary movie on American politics). External links (including references)
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