NSP-MN March Meeting - Mon. March 8th at 7:00-8:30 p.m. Potluck at 6:30 p.m.

7:00 Welcome, followed by - Kathy Kelly: “The Price of Peace and the Cost of Discipleship: Religious Nonviolence in a Warlike Culture”

Join us for an inspiring JOINT meeting with Every Church a Peace Church - http://www.ecapc.org

Plymouth Congregational Church
1900 Nicolett Ave.  Minneapolis, MN  55403
 Enter parking lot from Franklin Ave. - go downstairs to the Jackman Room

612-871-7400  http://www.plymouth.org

6:30 potluck – bring a dish to pass. We hope to make this a low waste potluck, and  encourage potluckers to bring their own reuseable plate, cup, silver & napkin. For those who cannot bring their own setting/s, disposables will be available.

Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org), a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare. As a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, Kathy helped form 70 delegations that openly defied economic sanctions by bringing medicines to children and families in Iraq from 1996-2003. Kathy and her companions lived in Baghdad throughout the 2003 “Shock and Awe” bombing.

More recently, she visited Gaza and Pakistan, writing eyewitness accounts of war’s impact on civilians. Kathy was sentenced to one year in federal prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites (1988-89) and served three months, in 2004, for crossing the line at Fort Benning’s military training school.

She and her companions at the Voices Chicago home office believe that non-violence necessarily involves simplicity, service, sharing of resources and non-violent direct action in resistance to war and oppression. Kathy hasn’t paid federal income taxes since 1980.For more about Kathy Kelly--including her theological background and the many ways she is honored as a spiritual activist--go to:  http://vcnv.org/kathy-kelly-long-version