Daily Illini via U-Wire
September 30, 2003, Tuesday
Champaign, Ill.

By Molly Stephey, Daily Illini

With a weathered face and a thick mass of curly hair, Kathy Kelly sings an Arabic song translated from English — one she sang with schoolchildren in Iraq. The three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and member of the Catholic Workers’ Union spoke Monday afternoon at the University of Illinois YMCA. Kelly was part of a peace team in Iraq during the U.S. “shock and awe” campaigns and founded Voices in the Wilderness, an organization dedicated to ending U.S. economic sanctions on Iraq.

“I think Janis Joplin was right when she said ‘Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose,’” Kelly said.

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by Joanne Baker

Why is Baghdad suffering? This question is on everybody’s lips. Electricity, we have heard, has been restored in all other towns. Only Baghdad is being denied this basic life support. As the heat increases, so does the desperation and bitterness of the people.

29 September 2003

Vitw filed an Answer and Counter Claim in US District Court Washington DC on Friday September 26, 2003, in response to the fines for bringing medicine and relief to Iraq.

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