05/16/2008 7:30 p.m.
Ascension Episcopal Church, , Hayward, WI US

Sponsored by Peace North, Veterans for Peace Chapter 153

Kathy Kelly, co-cordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence, based in Chicago, is organizing a walk from Chicago to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul this summer.

She helped initiate Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the UN/US sanctions against Iraq in 1996. For bringing “medicine and toys” to Iraq in open violation of the UN/US sanctions, she and other campaign members were fined $20,000, 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 24 times since January 1996, when the campaign began, and has visited Iraqi refugees who have fled their country. She is an inspiring speaker.

PermaLink: http://iraqmoratorium.org/events/listings/9/985.html

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