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.
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Jessica Clark is a writer, editor and researcher, with more than 15 years of experience spanning commercial, educational, independent and public media production. Currently she is the Research Director for American University’s Center for Social Media. She also writes a monthly column for PBS’ MediaShift on new directions in public media. She is the author, with Tracy Van Slyke, of Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (2010, New Press).
