Thursday, July 14th
6:00 p.m.

The Peace Museum
100 North Central Park Avenue
Chicago, IL

Please join The Peace Museum and Voices in the Wilderness for an evening with Kathy Kelly, author of the recently published Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison.

Kathy will present music, simulations, visuals, and role plays related to helping people develop greater empathy for people whom she has met in prisons and in Iraq during years of siege and warfare. Among the questions explored will be:

• “Who goes to jail, and why?”
• “How is the prison – industrial complex related to the military – industrial complex?
• “How can we help end the U.S. occupation of Iraq, bring all the troops home, bring them home alive, and pay just reparations for U.S. military and economic warfare against Iraq?”

Thursday, July 14th
6:00 p.m.

The Peace Museum
100 North Central Park Avenue
Chicago, IL

The Peace Museum is located in the building with the big gold dome, close to the Garfield Park Conservatory.

Via CTA public transportation, take the green line to the Conservatory stop.

Copies will be available of Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison, written by Kathy Kelly, a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, with a Foreword by Milan Rai and an Afterward by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.

Other Lands Have Dreams is Kathy’s account of her time in Iraq from the first Gulf War of 1991, through the misery of 12 years of economic sanctions, to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq that began with Operating Shock and Awe and continues to the present.

Kathy also recounts in detail the miseries experienced by U.S. prisoners in a climate where the merciless war on drugs has fostered a “throw away the key mentality.”

Art by Paul Chan