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{{short description|Green Party politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Dona Spring
| birth_date = January 22, 1953
| death_date = July 13, 2008 (aged 55)
| office = Member of the [[Berkeley City Council]]<br>from the 4th district
| termstart = 1992
| termend = July 13, 2008
| successor = [[Jesse Arreguín]]
| birth_place = [[Plentywood, Montana]], U.S.
| alma_mater = [[University of California, Berkeley]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| death_place = [[Berkeley, California]], U.S.
| party = [[Green Party of California|Green]]
}}

'''Dona Spring''' (January 22, 1953 – July 13, 2008) was an American activist and [[politician]]. She served on the [[Berkeley City Council]] from 1992 until her death in 2008.

== Early life and education ==
Spring was born in [[Plentywood, Montana]]. She graduated from the [[University of California, Berkeley]] with honors, earning a bachelor's degree in [[anthropology]] and [[psychology]].<ref name=obit>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-Councilwoman-Dona-Spring-dies-3204403.php|title=Berkeley Councilwoman Dona Spring dies|last1=Jones|first1=Carolyn|last2=Writer|first2=Chronicle Staff|date=July 15, 2008|website=SFGate|access-date=April 29, 2020}}</ref>

== Career ==
Spring worked for many years as an activist devoted to causes such as disability rights, seniors, at-risk youth, poverty, the environment and animal rights. She used a wheelchair for much of her adult life due to [[rheumatoid arthritis]].<ref>Moll, Lucy [https://books.google.com/books?id=lAcAAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Dona+Spring%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA46 "Who Profits?"], ''[[Vegetarian Times]]''. May 1989. P. 46.</ref><ref name=obit/><ref name=burden>{{cite book |last= Taylor|first= Sunaura|author-link= Sunaura Taylor|date= 2017|title= Beast of Burden: Animal and disability liberation|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=akc2DgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Dona+Spring%22+-wikipedia&pg=PT114|location= |publisher= [[The New Press]]|page= Chapter 16|isbn=978-1620971291}}</ref>

Spring was elected to the [[Alameda County, California|Alameda County]] [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] Central Committee in 1986 and to the county's Green Party County Council in 1990.

Spring was elected to the Berkeley City Council in 1992 as a member of the [[Green Party of California]]. She served on the Alameda County Recycling Board from 1997 to 2001, including a stint as its president in 2001. She was elected to her fifth, and last, term to the Berkeley City Council in 2006 with 72% of votes cast. Her last act as a member of the city council was to pledge support for the tree-sitters during the [[University of California, Berkeley oak grove controversy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-07-17/full_text|title=Full Text of All Articles The Berkeley Daily Planet|website=www.berkeleydailyplanet.com|access-date=2020-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.berkeleycitizen.org/oakgrove/oakgrove7.htm|title=Updates on Memorial Oak Grove Siege|website=www.berkeleycitizen.org|access-date=2020-04-29}}</ref>

Spring was succeeded in the City Council by [[Jesse Arreguín]], who Spring had encouraged to run for office previously.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Mayor/Home/The_Mayor_s_Biography.aspx|title=The Mayor's Biography - City of Berkeley, CA|website=www.cityofberkeley.info|access-date=2020-04-29}}</ref>

== Death ==
Spring died in 2008, aged 55, at [[Alta Bates Summit Medical Center]] in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], after being diagnosed with pneumonia.<ref name=obit/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-07-10/article/30565?headline=Dona-Spring-An-Appreciation|title=Dona Spring: An Appreciation. Category: Editorials from The Berkeley Daily Planet|website=www.berkeleydailyplanet.com|access-date=2020-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-07-10/article/30559?headline=Berkeley-Mourns-Loss-of-Dona-Spring-Fierce-Advocate-for-the-Environment-Justice-and-Human-and-Animal-Rights|title=Berkeley Mourns Loss of Dona Spring, Fierce Advocate for the Environment, Justice, and Human and Animal Rights. Category: Extra from The Berkeley Daily Planet|website=www.berkeleydailyplanet.com|access-date=2020-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cagreens.org/greenfocus/spring_09/spring.html|title=Green Focus {{!}} Dona Spring|website=www.cagreens.org|access-date=2020-04-29}}</ref> In July 2008, filmmakers Lindsay Vurek and Valerie Trost released a [[documentary film]] about Spring's life, ''Courage in Life & Politics - The Dona Spring Story''.<ref name=burden/>

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[[Category:20th-century American women politicians]]
[[Category:21st-century American women]]
[[Category:Activists from California]]
[[Category:California city council members]]
[[Category:California Greens]]
[[Category:Deaths from pneumonia in California]]
[[Category:American disability rights activists]]
[[Category:Green Party of the United States officeholders]]
[[Category:People from Sheridan County, Montana]]
[[Category:Politicians from Berkeley, California]]
[[Category:Women city councillors in California]]
[[Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century California politicians]]

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