[Peace] WILL "Public Square" re Kathy Kelly

[Barbara kessel]

Ditto Bravo! Barbara

On 9/28/07, Morton K. Brussel <brussel at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> 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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