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Other Lands Have Dreams: The Peace Museum

June 14, 2005 | category: Events

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.

Dahr Jamail to Visit Chicago, April 22nd-23rd

March 23, 2005 | category: Events

Voices in the Wilderness will host Dahr Jamail’s speaking events in Chicago for April 22nd-23rd.

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Dahr Jamail needs no introduction for the regular readers of this website. His independent reporting from Iraq has kept us better informed than CNN, Fox News, and NPR combined. Dahr has been back in the US giving presentations for several weeks. Having just returned from Iraq, Dahr will share his most recent experiences and stories he has heard. He will present photos and new documentary footage from inside devasted Falluja, as well as give his analysis of the “mainstream media’s successful efforts to whitewash the Iraq catastrophe for the Bush administration.”, and what we can do about it.

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Kevin and Monica Benderman, Chicago Events

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“I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them that they are heroes when they master the ‘art’ of killing.”
-Kevin Benderman

“One man has stopped killing. One man has chosen to find a path other than war. One man has taken the right road, the only road that leads to sanity, and leads to peace. That man and his wife hope that one more man will follow, and another after that; And the duty they adhere to will be saving a life.”
-Monica Benderman

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Voices in the Wilderness is pleased to bring Kevin and Monica Benderman to Chicago

Saturday and Sunday, April 9 & 10

Following a long-lasting family tradition, Sgt. Kevin Benderman served in the military for ten years. It took harrowing and illuminating experiences in Iraq for him defy tradition. Kevin returned to Georgia after six months in Iraq. After reflecting on his experiences, he came to believe that war is “…inhumane. It’s turning 18-year-old men and women into soulless people.” Kevin refused to return to Iraq, and has pursued conscientious-objector status. He will face a court-martial hearing in May, and may be sentenced for up to 7 years in prison.

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Saturday, April 9, 11:00 AM

Grace Place
637 S Dearborn, 1st floor
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Kevin and Monica Benderman will be the guest speakers at a press conference and public panel on the militarization of youth
Sponsored by: VITW, CCOMY, AFSC, VVAW, SSC