FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2013 file photo, Concepcion Picciotto, who holds a constant peace vigil in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, sits on a park bench in the park. Picciotto, the protester who maintained a peace vigil outside the White House for more than three decades, a demonstration widely considered to be the longest-running act of political protest in U.S. history, has died. The Washington Post reports Picciotto died Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, at a housing facility for homeless women. She was believed to be 80. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
FILE – In this Sept. 12, 2013 file photo, Concepcion Picciotto, who holds a constant peace vigil in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, sits on a park bench in the park. Picciotto, the protester who maintained a peace vigil outside the White House for more than three decades, a demonstration widely considered to be the longest-running act of political protest in U.S. history, has died. The Washington Post reports Picciotto died Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, at a housing facility for homeless women. She was believed to be 80. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

 

Washington – Concepcion Picciotto, the protester who maintained a peace vigil outside the White House that was widely considered to be the longest-running act of political protest in U.S. history, has died.

The Washington Post reports Picciotto died Monday at a housing facility for homeless women. Schroeder Stribling, executive director of N Street Village, says Picciotto had recently suffered a fall, but the cause of death was not yet known.

Picciotto, a Spanish immigrant, was the primary guardian of the anti-nuclear-proliferation vigil stationed along Pennsylvania Avenue for three decades. She was quoted in 2013 as saying she protested to “stop the world from being destroyed.”

Fellow protester Ellen Thomas says she, husband William Thomas and Picciotto formed a group whose nuclear disarmament campaign was known as Proposition One.

CraigThompson sits in the anti-nuclear-proliferation vigil stationed along Pennsylvania Avenue on the edge of Lafayette Square Park across from the White House in Washington, early Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. A white sign in front reads "Concepcion RIP." Concepcion Picciotto, the protester who maintained a peace vigil outside the White House for more than three decades, a demonstration widely considered to be the longest-running act of political protest in U.S. history, has died. The Washington Post report Picciotto died Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, at a housing facility for homeless women. She was believed to be 80. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
CraigThompson sits in the anti-nuclear-proliferation vigil stationed along Pennsylvania Avenue on the edge of Lafayette Square Park across from the White House in Washington, early Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. A white sign in front reads “Concepcion RIP.” Concepcion Picciotto, the protester who maintained a peace vigil outside the White House for more than three decades, a demonstration widely considered to be the longest-running act of political protest in U.S. history, has died. The Washington Post report Picciotto died Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, at a housing facility for homeless women. She was believed to be 80. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

CraigThompson sits in the anti-nuclear-proliferation vigil stationed along Pennsylvania Avenue on the edge of Lafayette Square Park across from the White House in Washington, early Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. A white sign that reads "Concepcion RIP" leans against the front of the structure. Concepcion Picciotto, the protester who maintained a peace vigil outside the White House for more than three decades, a demonstration widely considered to be the longest-running act of political protest in U.S. history, has died. The Washington Post reports Picciotto died Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, at a housing facility for homeless women. She was believed to be 80. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

As reported by Vos Iz Neias