March 17 GREENSBORO rally - LINK info MARCH on Pentagon
Our honored guest who needs and deserves our support is Greensboro resident
Pvt. Terri JohnsonMarch 17, NOON Downtown Greensboro,
Governmental Plaza, Greene St.
I an very pleased that Ed Kinane will be joining us after just arriving back from this important trip.
Kinane says, "These days saber rattling is bringing the world to the brink of further war. We civilians can't sit by and let governments destroy us all."
A native and resident of Syracuse's southside, Kinane is a graduate of S.U.'s Maxwell School of Citizenship. Since the late seventies Kinane has been active with the Syracuse Peace Council. In 2003 Kinane spent five months in IRAQ with the human rights group, Voices in the Wilderness. Kinane resided in Baghdad before and during the U.S. invasion. He returned to Baghdad several months later to report on the U.S. occupation.
A veteran of various international peace initiatives, Kinane has
worked with Peace Brigades International in Guatemala (1988), El Salvador (1989), Sri Lanka (1991), and Haiti (1993). In 1996 and in 1999 Kinane spent 14 months in federal prison for his outspoken nonviolent activism against the U.S. Army's School of the Americas -- notorious for training Latin American soldiers the craft of torture and "anti-insurgency" The F.O.R. Iran delegation will return to the States March 14. To learn more, visit www.forusa.org/programs/iran.Mr. Ed Kinane is a speaker, educator and activist from the Voices for Creative Non-Violence http://vcnv.org / http://vcnv.org/speaker-bio/ed-kinane
ST. Patrick's DAY is not just about green beer anymore.
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