Since the TEDx talk last April the Congo Calling movement has advanced rapidly with Universities like St Andrews in Scotland being the first to take up the challenge of being conflict free institutions.
He can now move his fingers and toes again, and last month doctors at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, US, discovered his brain has maintained a near-normal ability to detect feeling and movement.
Such a solitary demise would have been unimaginable to anyone who knew Firestone in the late nineteen-sixties, when she was at the epicenter of the radical-feminist movement, surrounded by some of the same women who, a month after her death, gathered in St.