Voices from Iraq
Kathy Kelly
Tuesday, 14 Feb 2006 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Kathy Kelly co-founded Voices in the Wilderness, a group which bears witness to the suffering the UN imposed sanctions have visited upon the people, especially the children, of Iraq. She has been to Iraq twenty-two times since January 1996, when the campaign began, and is the author of Other Lands Have Dreams: from Baghdad to Pekin Prison.Cosponsored By:
- Alliance for Global Justice
- Philosophy and Religious Studies
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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