The MCC Student Peace Action Network (SPAN) will present a program this Friday evening, 7:00PM, in the Conference Center at McHenry County College. The following is its press release:
RISKING IT ALL FOR PEACE:
Stories of Occupation and Solidarity from Iraq to Palestine
Speakers: ART and PEGGY GISH, Christian Peacemaker Teams
Moderator: Todd Culp, Ph.D. MCC Political Science Instructor
Organic farmers Art and Peggy Gish work as human rights activists for Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), an international organization "committed to reducing violence by getting in the way." They have been getting in the way of injustice and violence from Hebron to Baghdad. Peggy was in Iraq as peace advocate and witness before, during and following the 2003 U.S. invasion. In 2007 she was kidnapped but released after only 2 days because she showed her captors a photo of her husband Art standing in front of an Israeli tank which had been smashing the central market in Hebron. Art Gish has been part of CPT in Hebron since 1995, getting in the way of Israeli military and settler violence against Palestinian civilians. He led a two day training course in nonviolence attended by Rachel Cory. Art is the author of several books, including Hebron Journal: Stories of Nonviolent Peacemaking. Peggy is the author of IRAQ, A Journey of Hope and Peace, a moving story of the horrors of war yet never dimming her vision of peace.
Free and Open to the public
McHenry County College Conference Center
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 7:00 pm
You never know who is interested…
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