[Peace] WILL "Public Square" re Kathy Kelly

[Morton K. Brussel]

Bravo!


On Sep 28, 2007, at 12:01 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> [The following comment will air this afternoon, 4:45 and 6:45. --CGE]
>
> I'm Carl Estabrook, of the local anti-war group AWARE.
>
> Despite the huge anti-war demonstrations that preceded the US  
> invasion of Iraq, the anti-war movement today contrasts sharply  
> with that of the Vietnam era -- or of the Reagan wars in Latin  
> America.  Journalist Alexander Cockburn recently wrote that there  
> are only
>
> "a few good efforts -- the anti-recruitment campaigns, the tours of  
> Military Families Against the War, ... the efforts of some  
> returning vets, the stands taken by some enlistees refusing  
> deployment to the Middle East—and three or four brave souls. Cindy  
> Sheehan single-handedly reanimated the anti-war movement last  
> year; ... there is also the radical Catholic Kathy Kelly..."
>
> There is indeed Kathy Kelly, who will visit Champaign-Urbana next  
> week for a series of talks and lectures.  Ms. Kelly, from Chicago,  
> is an American peace activist, pacifist, and three-time Nobel Peace  
> Prize nominee.  She was active with the Catholic Worker movement  
> and, as a pacifist, has refused to pay federal income taxes for 25  
> years.
>
> In 1988 she was sentenced to prison for planting corn on a nuclear  
> missile site.  Her account of her arrest by an embarrassed young  
> rural soldier is hilarious -- until one realizes that it took place  
> directly over a weapon of the sort the administration is  
> threatening to use again, many times the force of the Hiroshima bomb.
>
> Kelly served nine months in a maximum security prison.  She claims  
> that attending Catholic school prepared her for the experience.
>
> At the beginning of the Gulf War, in 1991, she was part of a peace  
> encampment on the Iraq-Saudi border and helped coordinate medical  
> relief convoys, as she also did in Bosnia and Haiti.  During the  
> Clinton administration she and friends formed a group to use  
> nonviolent civil disobedience against America's ongoing economic  
> and military warfare against the Iraqi people. They organized over  
> seventy delegations to Iraq in violation of the US/UK economic  
> sanctions, which caused the deaths of a half million children.
>
> In the spring of 2004, she served three months at Pekin federal  
> prison for her non-violent witness against the so-called School for  
> Assassins at Fort Benning, GA.  She is currently co-coordinator of  
> Voices for Creative Nonviolence and the author of several books,  
> notably OTHER LANDS HAVE DREAMS: FROM BAGHDAD TO PEKIN PRISON.
>
> Her principal talk in town will on Thursday, October 4, at 7pm, at  
> the Community United Church of Christ, 6th and Daniel streets in  
> Champaign.  The title is "BATTLEFIELD WITHOUT BORDERS, CONSEQUENCES  
> WITHOUT END."  For more information, see the AWARE website at ANTI  
> DASH WAR, DOT NET.
>
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