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15 Nov, London: Battlefields Without Borders - Iraq's Refugee Crisis

Voices UK | 14.11.2007 00:38 | Iraq | Migration | Terror War | London

Public meeting and film premiere with renowned US peace activist Kathy Kelly.

7pm-9pm, Thursday 15 November 2007
Human Rights Action Centre
17-25 New Inn Yard London EC2A 3EA
(tube: Liverpool Street)

With:
* KATHY KELLY, renowned US peace activist
* LOUSISE MOOR, Amnesty International, co-author 'Millions in Flight: the
Iraqi Refugee Crisis'
* SONIA AZAD, Children Against War
* A speaker from the Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq
(www.csdiraq.com)

Also featuring the world premiere of Children Against War’s new film 'Giving
a voice to Iraqi children', shot in Jordan this August (see
 http://tinyurl.com/356u2b).

Kathy Kelly is the co-founder Voices in the Wilderness US, which sent scores
of sanctions-breaking delegations to Iraq during the 90s and early 2000s.
She has visited Iraq 26 times since 1991, lived in Baghdad during the 2003
invasion, and has recently spent four months in the Middle East living with
Iraqi refugees. She has helped organize - and participated in - nonviolent
direct action teams in Haiti (‘94), Bosnia (’92 & ‘93) and Iraq (Gulf
Peace
Team, ‘91), and was among the first internationals to visit Jenin, following
the massive 2002 Israeli assault on the West Bank refugee camp.

In 1988 she was sentenced to one year in prison for planting corn on nuclear
missile silo sites, and served nine months of the sentence in a Lexington,
KY maximum security prison. In 2000 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace
Prize by the American Friends Service Committee.

Organised by Iraq Occupation Focus, Justice Not Vengeance and Voices UK.
www.iraqoccupationfocus.org.uk | www.j-n-v.org | www.voicesuk.org

Voices UK
- e-mail: gabriel@voices.netuxo.co.uk
- Homepage: http://www.voicesuk.org

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