[Peace] WILL "Public Square" re Kathy Kelly

[C. G. Estabrook]

Thanks.  --CGE

Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
> Excellent! I forwarded this to friends in MI and NY!
>  
> Jenifer
> 
> */"C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>/* 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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