Kathy Kelly, a Chicago-based peace activist, will address recent experiences in Afghanistan, along with 2009 travel to Pakistan and Gaza during a lecture on Thursday, September 15 from 7 – 9 p.m. in the Regis Room. A Q&A with the audience will follow the lecture.
Kelly is the co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end military and economic warfare. She was part of the recently attempted Flotilla (and Airtilla) to Gaza and was there during the Israeli bombing of Gaza known as Operation Cast Lead. Kelly was in Iraq during the “Shock and Awe” bombings and brought some 70 delegations to Iraq to bring needed medicines, defying economic sanctions. She has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize numerous times.
This lecture is sponsored by Canisius College Department of Philosophy, the Ethics and Justice Program, the Interfaith Peace Network, the WNY Peace Center, and the Sr. Karen Klimczak Center for Nonviolence.
Submitted by: Terrence Bisson, PhD, professor, mathematics & statistics
