NY Event: 2007 Dellinger Lecture on Middle East Nonviolence

War Resisters League, AJ Muste Memorial Institute, and Judson Memorial Church invite you to the 2007 Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence, "Nonviolent Action in the Middle East."

This event is also in celebration of the publication of the WRL 2008 Peace Calendar, Salaam, Shalom, Solh: Nonviolence and Resistance in the Middle East and Beyond (edited by Jim Haber; introduction by Kathy Kelly)

with

Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, author of Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison

Hiba Dawood, Iraqi journalist, winner of 2007 Courage in Journalism Award from International Women's Media Foundation

plus Can Baskent on Turkish conscientious objectors and resistance,
and with poetry by David Smith-Ferri, author of Battlefield without Borders

Thurs., October 25 at 7 pm

Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, NYC

Free Admission (Donations Requested)

For more information, visit here or email dellinger@att.net, or call 718-768-7306. And spread the world!

ALERT: Bring Katrina Survivors Home

From Amnesty International

August 29th marked the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, yet thousands of people remain in limbo, wondering if they will be able to return home.

These survivors have endured ongoing hardship for too long. With most public housing in New Orleans still shuttered and a dearth in affordable housing throughout the Gulf Coast, survivors are at continued risk of ongoing displacement far from home. It's time to give displaced Katrina survivors a timely and dignified return.

The House of Representatives has done its part to uphold the right to return. Now it's up to the Senate to do the same. Tell your Senator that the time has come to bring Katrina survivors home.


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Tragedy at VA Tech

UPDATE: ABC News confirms that 29 were killed in the Virginia Tech slayings.

From Reuters, preliminary info on perhaps the worst US school shooting in history:

At least 22 people [figure updated to 29 at press time], including the suspected gunman, were killed and many others were wounded on Monday in a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech university, police and university officials said.

The rampage took place in two separate areas of the campus about two hours apart during the morning. Police said they believed a single gunman was responsible.

"This is a tragedy of monumental proportions," Virginia Tech president Charles Steger told reporters.

It was one of the worst shootings on a university campus in the United States since a massacre at the University of Texas in Austin on August 1, 1966. Charles Whitman killed 15 people, including his mother and wife the night before, and wounded 31 others in that shooting.

Virginia Tech, with 26,000 students, is located in the southwest corner of the state, about 240 miles (390 km) from Washington.

From ABC News:

At least 29 people are dead in what may be the biggest mass shooting in American history — and the death toll may rise. At least 17 injured students were admitted to local hospitals. ...

While information had not been released about the gunman, Carter said he suspected that whoever the shooter was suffered from some deep psychological problem and was likely connected to the university campus in some way.

"In the past, in similar cases, it's usually been a psychological issue and not just a security issue," Carter said. "One of the people who was killed was an older individual, maybe a faculty member. That could be a likely underlying factor in this case -- someone who has failed."