Save the Date: Medea Benjamin on the War’s Cost

Lincoln Park Neighbors United For Peace Group and Chicagoans Against War and Injustice Present: MEDEA BENJAMIN Speaking on THE WAR! THE COST! AND YOU! Wednesday February 23, 2005 at 7 PM Assumption Church, 323 W. Illinois Street, Chicago Free to the public; free parking Medea Benjamin is a powerful and charismatic force in human rights activism, and has struggled for social justice in Asia, Africa and the Americas for over 20 years. She is the Founding Director of the human rights organization Global Exchange and was instrumental in the formation United for Peace and Justice coation.. Benjamin is a leading activist in the peace movement in the United States was a featured speaker at the recent World Social Forum in Brazil attended by 200,000 people. She is also the co-founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace, an amazingly creative women's group that has been organizing against the war in Iraq and pushing for a reorientation of budget priorities in the US to focus on heath care, education and housing, not war. In February 2003, Benjamin visited Iraq and met with weapon's inspectors, women's groups and ordinary Iraqi civilians. She was arrested for speaking out against the war in Iraq at the Democratic and Republic National Conventions, and most recently at Bush’s Inauguration. How to get there: Grand #65 BUS and Ravenswood el and Merchandise Mart For More Information: Call 773.327.5928 Come listen and participate and get energized to keep on struggling for a better world.