Events for May 18, 2024

Sat May 18, 8:45 am-12:45 pm Pacific time, Zoom Registration for Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Spring Assembly is now open! Theme “Supporting Movements for a Just and Peaceful World.” Everyone is welcome to join us for a Zoom conference with speakers, youth presentations, and discussion. Keynote Speaker Kathy Kelly “Ring the Bells that Still Can Ring: Movements, Worldwide, to End the Scourge of War” Kathy Kelly is board president of World BEYOND War and a co-coordinator of the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal.  Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, she has volunteered with an international network to assist young people forced to flee from Afghanistan. Kathy has been incarcerated in federal prisons for nonviolently resisting militarism and war. As a war tax refuser, she successfully avoided payment of federal income taxes for the past four decades. With Voices in the Wilderness companions, she broke economic sanctions against Iraq 27 times. The Iraq Peace Team then remained in Iraq throughout the Shock and Awe bombing and the initial weeks of the invasion.  Having lived alongside ordinary people during wars in Iraq, Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Nicaragua, she believes women and children enduring such conflict have been her finest teachers. Suggested donation $0 to $20.   Registration https://wwfor2024sa.brownpapertickets.com/ Info https://wwfor.org/spring-assembly-2024/ or 206-789-5565, wwfor@wwfor.org.