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March 20th observance of Iraq invasion 10 years

Marking the 10 year anniversary of the Iraq invasion

Wednesday, March 20, 7:00 pm at the Brown and Gold room at the Bernhard Center on Western Michigan University campus.

Featuring the dynamic speaker:  Kathy Kelly.

Kathy Kelly is an American peace activist, pacifist and author, one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness, and currently a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Kelly#Biography

From wikipedia:

As part of peace team work in several countries, she has traveled to Iraq twenty-six times, notably remaining in combat zones during the early days of both US-Iraq wars. She has been arrested more than sixty times at home and abroad, and written of her experiences among targets of U.S. military bombardment and inmates of U.S. prisons. She lives in Chicago.

Before the talk at WMU, KNOW will have a special vigil in front of the Federal Building at the corner of Park and Michigan downtown Kalamazoo at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, March 20th.