Waging Peace: From Shannon to Baghdad

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday May 27, 2003 23:13 by Deirdre Clancy - Catholic Worker pitstopploughshares at hotmail dot com 086 151 2013

Benefit in Wynn's Hotel, June 3rd

At 8pm in Wynn's Hotel on Tuesday, June 3rd, Kathy Kelly, co-founder of sanctions-busting group Voices in the Wilderness will introduce the Pitstop ploughshares five: Ciaron O'Reilly, Karen Fallon, Damien Moran, Deirdre Clancy and Nuin Dunlop. Music will be provided by Liam O'Maonlai of the Hothouse Flowers. Other speakers include Iain Attack and Caoimhe Butterly.

Kathy Kelly is a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, the first U.S. grassroots organization to bring activists into Iraq to witness the effect of sanctions, to bring food and medicine to the people of Iraq and to educate the public upon their return.

Her fierce dedication to peace has put her in the line of fire in hot spots throughout the world during the past two decades, and her stubborn desire to make a point cost her nine months in prison in 1988. This stemmed from a Missouri protest in which she repeatedly trespassed on nuclear missile sites and turned down probation. Her long-term work for peace has earned her a reputation as a self-declared pacifist who is anything but passive. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) nominated Denis Halliday and Kathy Kelly for a joint 2000 Nobel Peace Prize.