Kathy Kelly

MARCH 27-29, 2009 

Fri 6:30 p.m. dinner thru Sun lunch
Program $125; Room/Board $185     Total: $310 
EARLYBIRD: $35 off the total before February 27.  

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King urged peace and justice activists to abolish the triple evils of poverty, racism and war.  Drawing upon her experiences in war zones, prisons and blighted neighborhoods, Kathy Kelly will lead a retreat that focuses on efforts to nonviolently remove the pillars that support impoverishment, militarism, and racial discrimination.  Retreat participants will be invited to participate in simulations, role plays and small group sessions, and to join in prayerful song and reflection.

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 Kathy Kelly is a Nobel Peace Award nominee, author, activist, the Co-Coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, and the founder of an earlier organization, Voices in the Wilderness. She is internationally recognized and the recipient of many awards for her long and persistent peace witness for the people of Iraq, which she has visited 24 times. She has helped deliver medicines and toys and was present with the Iraqis throughout the U.S. bombardment and invasion. Her newest book is Other Lands Have Dreams: from Baghdad to Pekin prison (Counterpunch Press). 
 Kelly founded two organizations that support peace in Iraq and helped organize 70 delegations.  She was a nonviolent witness in the midst of violent conflicts in Beirut, Lebanon; on the Iraq-Saudi border; in Jenin, Israel-Palestine; and in Haiti and Bosnia. She served federal prison terms for planning corn on nuclear missile silo sites and later for crossing the line with School of Americas protestors. Kelly is a committed pacifist and war tax refuser.  
 Kelly began as a teacher in Chicago schools and colleges and remains active in the Catholic Worker movement.  She holds a master’s degree in religious education. www.venv.org.

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