[Peace] Fwd: Voices in the Wilderness here Sept 29-30

[Ricky Baldwin]

> Dear friends and colleagues,
> 
> Please make a note of these interesting local events
> later this 
> month, all of which involve Kathy Kelly of Voices in
> the Wilderness. 
> And please pass this information on to anyone who
> might be 
> interested.  These events have been co-sponsored by
> many community 
> and academic groups: the extent of this support
> speaks for itself. 
> See below for the (more or less) full list of
> co-sponsors.
> 
> Thanks, and regards, Robert McKim
> 
> 
> Monday, Sept. 29   4 p.m
> University YMCA.
> Speaker: Kathy Kelly
> "Baghdad under the Bombs: A Perspective from the
> Iraq Peace Team".
> 
> Tuesday Sept. 30th  7-9 p.m.
> Town Hall Meeting at Champaign Public Library.
> Speakers include: Kathy Kelly, Cliff Singer, and
> Mohammad Al-Heeti.
> Topic:  "Liberation or Occupation?  U.S. Role in
> Iraq"
> 
> 
> Additional events:
> 
> Noon, Monday, Sept 29th   Rally on Quad   Speakers
> include: Kathy 
> Kelly, Francis Boyle and Stephen Hartnett.
> 
> 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30th  Kathy Kelly on WILL am
> 580, Focus 580 
> with David Inge.
> 
> Noon, Tuesday, Sept. 30th  Brown-bag at
> Channing-Murray.  Informal 
> discussion with Kathy Kelly about U.S. involvement
> in Iraq.
> 
> 
> Kathy Kelly is one of the founders of Voices in the
> Wilderness, a 
> grassroots organization based in Chicago.  VITW
> formed after the 
> first Gulf War and has had over 50 delegations to
> Iraq to deliver 
> humanitarian aid in the form of medicines and toys
> ever since the 
> sanctions were imposed.  Kathy stayed in Iraq
> before, during and 
> after the current war and has been involved in
> nonviolent resistance 
> opposing U.S. foreign policy in Iraq since the
> initial Gulf War.  She 
> has received numerous humanitarian awards and has
> been nominated 
> three times for the Nobel Peace prize.  Kathy is a
> Chicago school 
> teacher at the college and high school level and a
> member of the 
> Chicago Catholic Worker community.
>  
> Co-sponsors for some or all of these events: ACDIS
> (UIUC Program in 
> Arms Control, Disarmament and International
> Security), AWARE 
> (Anti-War, Anti-Racism Effort), Central Illinois
> Mosque and Islamic 
> Center, Channing Murray Foundation, Community United
> Church of 
> Christ, Episcopal Church Foundation, Illinois
> Disciples Foundation, 
> John Henry Cardinal Newman Institute for Catholic
> Thought, McKinley 
> Foundation, Muslim Students Association, Peace and
> Service Committee 
> of the Friends Meeting, St. John's Catholic Chapel,
> St. Jude Catholic 
> Worker, St. Mary's Catholic Church, SAMES (UIUC
> Program in South 
> Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), Social Action
> Committee of St. 
> Patrick's Catholic Church, Social Action Committee
> of the Unitarian 
> Universalist Church, Students for World Improvement,
> Teachers for 
> Peace and Justice at UIUC, University YMCA, WGGP
> (UIUC Women and 
> Gender in Global Perspectives Program), Wesley
> Foundation.
> 
> For more information about any of these events
> contact Sharon Dorsey 
> at ayuda at prairienet.org
> 
> 
> 
> Please note my new e-mail address:
> 
> rmckim at uiuc.edu
> 
> 
> 
> 


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