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2005 General Assembly Registration Ten Years of Accompaniment
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Special Guest Speakers:
Kathy Kelly, MA, helped found Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the UN/US sanctions against Iraq. For bringing medicine and toys to Iraq in open violation of the UN/US sanctions, she and other campaign members were threatened with 12 years in prison and eventually fined $50,000, which they have refused to pay. Ms. Kelly has been to Iraq more than twenty times since January 1996, when the campaign began. In October 2002, she joined Iraq Peace Team members in Baghdad where she and the team maintained a presence throughout the bombardment and invasion. Ms. Kelly has taught in Chicago area community colleges and high schools since 1974. She is active with the Catholic Worker movement and, as a pacifist and war tax refuser, has refused payment of all Federal income tax for 23 years. In 1988 Ms. Kelly was sentenced to one year in prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites. She served nine months of the sentence in a maximum security prison. She was also imprisoned for three months in Pekin Federal Prison Camp for her participation in a nonviolent protest calling for closure of a military combat training school based in Fort Benning, GA. She recently wrote a book, Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison, edited by Alexander Cockburn and available through www.counterpunch.org. Place: Columbia University, School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA), 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027 Dress: Very casual
A limited number of Sandy Kemp Scholarships covering registration and meals are available for students (places to stay will be furnished by DGH friends in the area). Deadline has been extended to July 1. Announcements of awardees will be made by July 15. To apply please include a short statement with your registration addressing your present and past local, national and/or international health/social justice activities and your need for financial assistance to attend the GA. Housing: No more rooms are available at Columbia.
Register on site! All are welcome.
Please make checks payable to Doctors for Global Health, and indicate on the check that it is for the General Assembly registration, and for whom. Send registration to DGH, P.O. Box 1761, Decatur, GA 30031. If you have any questions, please e-mail us. |