[Peace] You are cordially invited to co-sponsor and to attend Paul Street & Kathy Kelly will be giving a joint presentation on Sunday April 11, 2010

[Karen Medina]

You are cordially invited to co-sponsor and to attend:

(We also need a catchy title for the event)
Paul Street & Kathy Kelly
will be giving a joint presentation on Sunday April 11, 2010
room 126 GSLIS (501 E. Daniel, Champaign Illinois.)(Graduate School of
Library and Information Science)
[This is organized by AWARE Presents.]

Brief Biographies of the speakers:
Paul Street blogs for ZNet and is the author of a few books, the most
recent of which is "Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics".
See a sample article:
http://www.zcommunications.org/health-reform-theirs-and-ours-by-paul-street

Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence, formed
delegations that took medicines to children and families in Iraq.
Kathy and her companions lived in Baghdad throughout the 2003 “Shock
and Awe” bombing. More recently, she has visited Gaza and Pakistan,
writing eyewitness accounts of war’s impact on civilians. Kathy was
sentenced to one year in federal prison for planting corn on nuclear
missile silo sites (1988-89) and served three months, in 2004, for
crossing the line at Fort Benning’s military training school.

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Longer Bio for Paul Street:
Paul Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher,
journalist, historian, and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and
Chicago, Illinois.  He is the author of four books to date: Empire and
Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm,
2004); Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil
Rights Era (New York: Routledge, 2005); Racial Oppression in the
Global Metropolis: a Living Black Chicago History (New York: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2007); and (most recently) Barack Obama and the Future of
American Politics.

Street's essays, articles, reviews, and commentaries have appeared in
numerous outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, Capital City Times,
In These Times, Chicago History, Journal of American Ethnic History,
Social History, Review of Educational, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies,
Dissent, Black Agenda Report, Dissident Voice, Black Commentator,
Monthly Review, History News Network, Tom'sDispatch, AlterNet., and
(above all) ZNet and Z Magazine. From the base of ZNet, Z Magazine,
and Black Agenda Report, his essays are picked up and reproduced
(often in numerous languages) across the planet/World Wide Web in
venues too numerous to track and mention.

Street's writings, research findings, and commentary have been
featured and presented in a large number and wide variety of media
venues, including The New York Times, CNN, Al Jazeera, the Chicago
Tribune, The Times of India, Morning Star (England), Al-Alkhbar (The
News in Beirut, Lebanon),  WGN (Chicago/national), WLS (ABC-Chicago),
Fox News, the Chicago Sun Times, the Capital City Times (Madison, WI),
and the Iowa City Press Citizen.

Street has appeared in more than 60 radio and television
interviews/broadcasts and on the popular live Web book-chat at
"Firedog." Lake

Street possesses a doctorate in modern U.S. History (with an emphasis
on the history of industrial and class relations) - a degree that he
will soon be marketing on E-Bay - and once hit a 25-foot jump shot
over the outstretched arm of Michigan Wolverine basketball great and
future NBA veteran Ricky Green.

Street has taught various aspects of U.S. history at a large number of
Chicago-area colleges and universities.  He has been strongly attached
to Left political and intellectual culture since he read Volume 1 of
Das Kapital and Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution (the
first at a snail's pace) in the basement of a house in DeKalb,
Illinois in the spring of 1978.   He was the Director of Research at
The Chicago Urban League from 2000 through 2005.

Street is a (sixth-grade) graduate of (the original John Dewey)
Laboratory School at the University of Chicago but it was all public
schools after that. Teenage delinquency may have saved him from
ruling-class indoctrination/socialization at one of the nation's elite
universities or liberal arts colleges and put him on a fateful path to
the once-exciting "little red schoolhouse on the prairie" - the
formerly Marxist History Department of Northern Illinois University.
The best childhood education he received came from the social
movements of the 1960s - a pedagogical engagement that begin with
hearing Martin Luther King, Jr, speak at Chicago's Soldier Field
during the long hot summer of 1966. Much of Street's writing revolves
around criticism and exposure of what King called "the triple evils
that are interrelated": racism, economic exploitation (capitalism),
and militarism-imperialism. He thinks that other and related evils,
including sexism and ecocidalism (and authoritarianism more generally)
deserve equal consideration

Longer bio for Kathy Kelly:
Kathy Kelly, 55, of Chicago, IL, helped initiate the Voices in the
Wilderness, a campaign to end the UN/US sanctions against Iraq. For
bringing “medicine and toys” to Iraq in open violation of the UN/US
sanctions, she and other campaign members were notified of a proposed
$163,000 penalty for the organization, threatened with 12 years in
prison, and eventually fined $20,000, a sum which they’ve refused to
pay.

Voices in the Wilderness organized 70 delegations to visit Iraq in the
period between 1996 and the beginning of the “Operation Shock and Awe”
warfare (March 2003). Kelly has been to Iraq twenty four times since
January 1996, when the campaign began.

In October 2002, Voices in the Wilderness declared their intent to
remain in Baghdad, alongside Iraqi civilians, throughout a war they
still hoped they could prevent. Kelly and the team stayed in Baghdad
throughout the bombardment and invasion and maintained a household in
Baghdad until March, 2004. During 2007, she spent five months in
Amman, Jordan, living amongst Iraqis who’ve fled their homes and are
seeking resettlement.

During the first two weeks of the Gulf War, she was part of a peace
encampment on the Iraq-Saudi border called the Gulf Peace Team.
Following evacuation to Amman, Jordan, (February 4, 1991), team
members stayed in the region for the next six months to help
coordinate medical relief convoys and study teams.

Kelly helped organize and participated in nonviolent direct action
teams in Haiti (summer of 1994), Bosnia (August, 1993, December, 1992)
and Iraq (Gulf Peace Team, 1991). In April of 2002, she was among the
first internationals to visit the Jenin camp, where conventional
military forces of the Israeli Defense Force had destroyed over 100
civilian homes, in the Occupied West Bank.

She and three companions from Voices were in Beirut, Lebanon during
the final days of the Israel-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006 and
subsequently reported from southern Lebanon following a ceasefire.

In 1988 she was sentenced to one year in prison for planting corn on
nuclear missile silo sites. Kelly served nine months of the sentence
in Lexington KY maximum security prison.

In the spring of 2004, she served three months at Pekin federal prison
for crossing the line as part of an ongoing effort to close an army
military combat training school at Fort Benning, GA.

Kelly has taught in Chicago area community colleges and high schools
since 1974. From 1980 – 1986 she taught at St. Ignatius College Prep
(Chicago, IL). She is active with the Catholic Worker movement and, as
a pacifist and war tax refuser, has refused payment of all Federal
income tax for 25 years.

She currently helps coordinate the Voices for Creative Nonviolence
campaign. www.vcnv.org

Other Lands Have Dreams: from Baghdad to Pekin prison (2005) by Kathy
Kelly is available through Counterpunch (www.counterpunch.org) or
Voices for Creative Nonviolence, 1249 West Argyle, Chicago, IL 60640
773-878-3815

“In a Time of Siege,” a Peace Productions DVD about Voices in the
Wilderness narrated by Studs Terkel is available from the Voices for
Creative Nonviolence office, 1249 West Argyle, Chicago, IL 60640
773-878-3815.

Education:

B.A. Loyola University at Chicago 1974
Masters in Religious Education, Chicago Theological Seminary; part of
a consortium of schools which included the Jesuit School of Theology
at Chicago where Kelly took courses each quarter
Publications:

Other Lands Have Dreams: from Baghdad to Pekin Prison Counterpunch
Press spring 2005

Editor and contributor:

War and Peace in the Gulf Cornerstone Press April 2001

Contributor:

Iraq Under Siege Edited by Anthony Arnove 2000

Live from Palestine Edited by Nancy Stohlman and Laurieann Aladin 2003

Articles, essays and interviews printed in:

The Sun, The Chicago Tribune Magazine, America, The National Catholic
Reporter, Columbia Journal of International Affairs, The Link,
Fellowship of Reconciliation Magazine, Lapis Magazine, The Jordan
Times, The Washington Report on the Middle East, The Capitol Times,
MERIP Magazine, Satya Magazine, Hope Magazine, Common Dreams website,
Counterpunch website, Electroniciraq.net website, Voices In The
Wilderness website, Voices for Creative Nonviolence website, and
Antiwar.Com website

Awards:

Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace Award, 1998
Newberry Library Free Speech Award, 1998
Detroit City Council Testimonial Resolution commending humanitarian
efforts, February 1999
Robert O. Cooper Fellowship in Peace and Justice Award, Southern
Methodist University March 1999
University of the Incarnate Word Distinguished Speaker Award March 1999
California State Assembly Certificate of Recognition for Founding of
Voices in the Wilderness November 1999
Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award, 1999
Consortium on Peace Research and Development Social Courage Award, 1999
Dan Berrigan Award, DePaul University 1999
Office of the Americas Peace and Justice Award November 1999
International Fellowship of Reconciliation Pfeiffer Peace Award, February 2000
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee with Denis Halliday 2000
Arab American Anti Discrimination Committee Humanitarian Award June 2000
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee 2001
Chaldean Iraqi American Association of Michigan Appreciation Award for
Dedication in Lifting Sanctions Against Iraq July 2001
Newberry Library “1st place” orator – Bughouse Square Debates August 2001
Life for Relief and Development Humanitarian Services Award September 2001
Global Exchange International Women’s Rights Awardee May 2003
Archbishop Oscar Romero Award, Mercyhurst College March 2003
Nobel Peace prize Nominee, with Voices in the Wilderness 2003
Call to Action Leadership Award, with Voices in the Wilderness 2003
Thomas Merton Center Award, Pittsburgh, PA 2003
Adela Dwyer St. Thomas of Villanova Peace Award, Villanova University,
Voices in the Wilderness 2003
William Scarlett Award from The Witness, Voices in the Wilderness 2003
Association of Chicago Priests, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Common
Ground Award with Voices in the Wilderness 2004
First Annual Award for Justice on behalf of the Religious Orders
Partnership given to Kathy Kelly and Voices in the Wilderness
Cranbrook Peace Foundation Annual Peace Award 2004
Houston Peace and Justice Center National Peacemaker Award
Peace Seeker of the Year 2005, Montana Peace Seekers Network
Doctor of Theology honoris causa from Chicago Theological Seminary
awarded May 14, 2005
Honorary degree awarded from Lewis University, May 15, 2005
Elliott Black Award for 2006 awarded by the American Ethical Union
De Paul Center for Church/State Studies 2007 John Courtney Murray
Award April 2007
Bradford-O’Neill Medallion for Social Justice Recipient, Dominican
University September 2007
The Oscar Romero Award presented by Pax Christi Maine October 2007

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