[Peace] Fwd: Monday and Tuesday Events

[Alfred Kagan]

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>>Monday, Sept. 29  
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>>Noon, Rally on Quad---Speakers include Kathy Kelly, Francis Boyle, 
>>and Stephen Hartnett. 
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>>4 p.m, University YMCA---Kathy Kelly on "Baghdad under the Bombs: A 
>>Perspective from the Iraq Peace Team".
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>>8:15 p.m., Islamic Center and Mosque (hosted by the Muslim Student 
>>Association) at 106 S. Lincoln.
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>>Tuesday Sept. 30th
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>>10 a.m., Kathy Kelly on WILL am 580, Focus 580 with David Inge.
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>>Noon, Brown-bag at Channing-Murray---Informal discussion with Kathy 
>>Kelly about U.S. involvement in Iraq.
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>>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?  The U.S. Role in Iraq"
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>>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.
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>>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. 
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>>For more information about any of these events contact Sharon 
>>Dorsey at ayuda at prairienet.org  
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>Stephen Hartnett
>The Helen Corley Petit Scholar of Speech Communication
>The University of Illinois
>244 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St.
>Urbana, Illinois 61801
>(217) 333-1593; hartnett at uiuc.edu


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
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