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SUMMARY:FINDING  HOPE  IN TURBULENT  TIMES\, w/Kathy Kelly & Jim Forest\,  Virtual Zoom Gathering/Sacred Heart Annual Gathering For Peace & Justice
DESCRIPTION:\nSacred Heart Annual Gathering\nFor Peace and Justice\nCamden\, New Jersey \nSaturday\, Feb. 20\, 2021 \n10a.m. ~12:00p.m.\n(Virtual Zoom Gathering on The Web)\n**Pre~Registration Required** \nFINDING  HOPE  IN TURBULENT  TIMES\n 2021 Peace and Justice Presenters\nZOOMING TO US LIVE FROM\nALKMAAR\, NETHERLANDS \nJIM FOREST ~ an apprentice Christian and would-be peacemaker.  Jim offers us a lifetime in the cause of peace and reconciliation\, past member of the Catholic Worker in NYC; author\, and  friend to Thomas Merton\, Daniel Berrigan\, Henri Nouwen and Dorothy Day. A conscientious objector against war\, Jim worked with Daniel Berrigan\, Dorothy Day and Catholic Workers mobilizing religious protest to oppose the Vietnam War. 1968\,  member of the Milwaukee 14 Resistance Action Community. \nZOOMING TO US LIVE FROM  CHICAGO\, ILLINOIS \nKATHY KELLY ~ a peacemaker\, pacifist\, author and occasional federal prisoner. Kathy co-founded Voices in the Wilderness and co-coordinated Voices for Creative Nonviolence\, developing campaigns that brought hundreds together to end military and economic warfare. Lifetime War Tax Resister. Kathy has lived alongside people enduring U.S. invasion & bombing in Afghanistan\, Iraq\, Gaza\, the West Bank\, Lebanon and Bosnia. \nKathy has spoken extensively in the greater Philadelphia area at Brandywine Peace Community\, American Friends Service Committee\, and Catholic Peace Fellowship events and demonstrations. \nTHE ZOOM DOORS OPEN  AT 9:45 AM  GATHERING STARTS PROMPTLY AT 10 A.M. ATTENDANCE WILL BE MUTED UPON ENTRY. \nTO ATTEND\, please follow the link below to our registrar at CFPA. \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAscO6upz4rEtzoQU0A5hE4tjXdTW8Zd9pv  \nEARLY CONTACT: to make a voluntary good will offering for the honorarium & expenses. BILLHARTMAN949@GMAIL.COM /\nSTEVE MCGEADY@ SJM158@COMCAST.NET \n \nKathy Kelly\nAt its core\, war is impoverishment. War’s genesis and ultimate end is in the poverty of our hearts. If we can realize that the world’s liberation begins within those troubled hearts\, then we may yet find peace…What good has ever come from the slaughter of the innocents? \n\n\n\nBiography\n\n\n\nDuring each of several recent trips to Afghanistan\, Kathy Kelly\, as an invited guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers\, has lived alongside ordinary Afghan people in a working class neighborhood in Kabul. She and her companions in Voices for Creative Nonviolence believe that “where you stand determines what you see.”\nThey are resolved not to let war sever the bonds of friendship between them and Afghan people whom they’ve grown to know through successive delegations. Kelly and her companions insist that the U.S. is not waging a “humanitarian war” in Afghanistan.\nKelly has also joined with activists in various regions of the country to protest drone warfare by holding demonstrations outside of U.S. military bases in Nevada\, upstate New York\, Iowa\, Missouri\, Michigan\, and Wisconsin.\nDuring late June and early July of 2011\, Kelly was a passenger on the “Audacity to Hope” as part of the US Boat to Gaza project. She also attempted to reach Gaza by flying from Athens to Tel Aviv\, as part of the Welcome to Palestine effort\, but the Israeli government deported her back to Greece.\nIn 2009\, she lived in Gaza during the final days of the Operation Cast Lead bombing; later that year\, Voices formed another small delegation to visit Pakistan\, aiming to learn more about the effects of U.S. drone warfare on the civilian population and to better understand consequences of U.S. foreign policy in Pakistan. She returned again to Gaza in November 2012 to meet with the survivors of Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense and to hear their stories.\nFrom 1996 – 2003\, Voices activists formed 70 delegations that openly defied economic sanctions by bringing medicines to children and families in Iraq. Kathy and her companions lived in Baghdad throughout the 2003 “Shock and Awe” bombing.\nShe was sentenced to one year in federal prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites (1988-89) and spent three months in prison\, in 2004\, for crossing the line at Fort Benning’s military training school. As a war tax refuser\, she has refused payment of all forms of federal income tax since 1980.\nShe and her companions at the Voices home/office in Chicago believe that non-violence necessarily involves simplicity\, service\, sharing of resources and non-violent direct action in resistance to war and oppression.\nOther Lands Have Dreams: from Baghdad to Pekin Prison (2005) by Kathy Kelly is available through Counterpunch (www.counterpunch.org) or Voices for Creative Nonviolence\, 1249 West Argyle\, Chicago\, IL 60640 773-878-3815\n“In a Time of Siege\,” a Peace Productions DVD about Voices in the Wilderness\, narrated by Studs Terkel\, is available from the Voices for Creative Nonviolence office\, 1249 West Argyle\, Chicago\, IL 60640 773-878-3815.\n\nEducation:\n• B.A. Loyola University at Chicago 1974\n• Masters in Religious Education\, Chicago Theological Seminary; part of a consortium of schools which included the Jesuit School of Theology at Chicago where Kelly took courses each quarter\nPublications:\nOther Lands Have Dreams: from Baghdad to Pekin Prison Counterpunch Press spring 2005\nEditor and contributor:\nWar and Peace in the Gulf Cornerstone Press April 2001\nContributor:\nIraq Under Siege Edited by Anthony Arnove 2000\nLive from Palestine Edited by Nancy Stohlman and Laurieann Aladin 2003\nArticles\, essays and interviews printed in:\nThe Sun\, The Chicago Tribune Magazine\, America\, The Progressive\, The National Catholic Reporter\, Columbia Journal of International Affairs\, The Link\, Fellowship of Reconciliation Magazine\, Lapis Magazine\, The Jordan Times\, The Washington Report on the Middle East\, The Capitol Times\, MERIP Magazine\, Satya Magazine\, Hope Magazine\, Peace News\,Common Dreams website\, Counterpunch website\, Electroniciraq.net website\, Voices In The Wilderness website\, Voices for Creative Nonviolence website\, and Antiwar.Com website.\n  \n\n \n \n\n\nHis engagement in Christianity began about the same time that he was selling newspapers. At age 12 he was baptized in an Episcopal parish in Shrewsbury\, New Jersey\, though it wasn’t until he was in the U.S. Navy that he began to see his vocation in religious terms.\nIn 1960\, while working at the U.S. Weather Bureau headquarters near Washington as part of a Navy meteorological unit\, he joined the Catholic Church.\nIn 1961\, after obtaining an early discharge from the Navy on grounds of conscientious objection\, he joined the Catholic Worker community\, led by Dorothy Day\, in New York City; during that period he became managing editor of The Catholic Worker.\nLater he was a reporter a New York City daily newspaper\, The Staten Island Advance\, and worked for Religious News Service\, a press bureau.\nAnother dimension of Jim’s life has been peace work. In 1965\, he founded the Catholic Peace Fellowship\, a group whose work in making known the option of conscientious objection was a factor in the remarkable fact that no religious community produced so many conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War as the Catholic Church.\nIn the late sixties\, Jim was responsible for Vietnam program activities of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. One aspect of his work was to travel with and assist Thich Nhat Hanh\, the Vietnamese Buddhist monk and poet.\nIn 1969-70\, Jim was imprisoned for thirteen months as a consequence of his involvement in the “Milwaukee Fourteen\,” (photo above) a group of Catholic priests and lay people who burned draft records. After leaving prison\, he was a member of the Emmaus Community in East Harlem\, New York.\nStarting in 1973\, he was appointed editor of Fellowship\, the magazine of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.\nIn 1977\, he moved to Holland to head the staff of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation. He was IFOR’s General Secretary for twelve years.\nIn connection with work on two books about Russian religious life\, in the 1980s Jim traveled widely throughout the former Soviet Union and was a witness to the final days of the USSR. His experiences in Russia were a factor in his becoming\, in 1988\, an Orthodox Christian. Jim is now international secretary of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship and edits its quarterly publication\, In Communion.\nJim is the author of many books\, including The Road to Emmaus: Pilgrimage as a Way of Life\, Praying with Icons\, The Ladder of the Beatitudes\,Confession: Doorway to Forgiveness. He has written two biographies that remain in print: Living With Wisdom: a biography of Thomas Merton; and Love is the Measure: a biography of Dorothy Day.\nEarlier books include Religion in the New Russia\, Pilgrim to the Russian Church\, and Making Friends of Enemies. He has written several children’s books\, most recently a true story about a community of rescuers in Nazi-occupied Paris: Silent as a Stone: Mother Maria of Paris and the Trash Can Rescue. With Tom Cornell and Robert Ellsberg\, he co-edited A Penny a Copy: Readings from The Catholic Worker. Translations of his books have been published in Dutch\, Italian\, Spanish\, Russian\, Swedish\, Danish\, Polish\, Korean\, Japanese\, and Romanian.\nAn occasional teacher\, in the early seventies\, Jim taught at New York Theological Seminary and the College of New Rochelle. In 1985\, during a sabbatical\, he taught at the Ecumenical Institute\, Tantur\, near Jerusalem\, and in 1999 was part of the summer faculty of the Department of Religion at the University of Dayton.\nJim has led retreats in the USA and England and has lectured at hundreds of parishes\, theological schools\, colleges and universities.\nAn influential factor in Jim’s life was his friendship with Thomas Merton\, who dedicated Faith and Violence to Jim. Merton’s letters to Jim have been published in The Hidden Ground of Love.\nIn 1989\, he received the Peacemaker Award from Notre Dame University’s Institute for International Peace Studies. He is also the recipient of the St. Marcellus Award presented annually by the Catholic Peace Fellowship.\nAfter several years of being treated by kidney illness\, in October 2007 Jim received a transplanted kidney donated by his wife\, Nancy.\nHe is the father of six children and grandfather of five.\nSince 1977 his home has been in Alkmaar\, Holland\, a city northwest of Amsterdam.\n \n\n\n
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