Sponsored by the Mexico Solidarity Network and School of the Americas Watch
On Thursday November 18 at Koinonia speakers from Mexico sponsored by the Mexico Solidarity Network will share about human rights abuses in their communities and what actions they are taking.
Join us for an opportuniy to learn more first hand information and learn how it relates to the work of the School of the Americas (SOA) as many of us prepare to peacefully assemble at Fort Benning.
Also joining us for this evening will be
Clare Hanrahan an Asheville, North Carolina writer, speaker, author and activist. She has been active in the Southeast for decades beginning in the early 1980s with the Mid-South Peace & Justice Center in Memphis. She has worked with women and children in St. Petersburg, Fl as founder of ASAP homeless services, and edited the journal of Rural Southern Voice for Peace in Burnsville, NC. Clare has challenged the abuses of militarism and weapons manufacture from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to Titusville, Florida, to Kings Bay and Fort Benning, Georgia.
Clare gets about town primarily on bicycle or foot as an everyday revolution and has chosen a life of economic simplicity as a conscientious objector to paying for war. She was imprisoned for six months at Alderson Federal Prison for persistent peaceful protest at Fort Benning, Georgia. She has written about her experiences in two books: Jailed for Justice: A > Woman's Guide to Federal Prison Camp (2002) and the just released, Conscience & Consequence: A Prison Memoir, available on her website: www.celticwordcraft.com
For more information visit:
http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/tour_militarization2004.html
and
http://www.soaw.org/
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