[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]

2-4pm (It might be 2:30 instead of 2 -- This is still being finalized)

Also, Paul Street's newest book was provisionally titled "Empire's New
Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power and the Politics of
Progressive Betrayal" (I don't know what the publisher decided to
change the title to.)

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> 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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karen medina
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