Tues. August 12, 2003 7pm, "Back from Baghdad"

Tues. August 12, 2003 7pm, "Back from Baghdad"

Matters of Controversy A Monthly Dialogue Series

Tues. August 12, 2003 7pm, "Back from Baghdad"

Slide show and eye witness report by Quaker Activist Mary Burton Riseley

Mary Burton Riseley, spent a month in Baghdad as a member of the Iraq Peace Team, a project of the international peace and humanitarian aid group Voices in the Wilderness.

First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego 4190 Front Street, Hillcrest, San Diego (opposite UCSD Medical Center) free parking in church ACE parking lot

An opportunity to gather knowledge, exchange ideas, turn information into action.

FREE EVENT! PLEASE COME EARLY! LIMITED SEATING!

Sponsored by Peace and Democracy Task Force of First Unitarian Universalist Church

Visit www.firstuusandiego.org for future Dates & Topics Subscribe to email at PeaceDemTF@aol.com or for more info, call 858-459-4650

"We are in what educators call a teachable moment. We'll lose it if we roll over and shut up." Bill Moyers

More about Mary Burton Riseley: Riseley returned to the U. S. from Baghdad on March 7. She became familiar to many New Mexicans because her dispatches were published in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Silver City newspapers and read on local radio and TV stations. They were also distributed by e-mail friendship networks to hundreds of readers around the U. S. and abroad.

While in Iraq, Riseley worked with children at a Baghdad cancer hospital and witnessed the crisis in health and well being throughout the country caused by twelve years of crushing economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United Nations in 1990. She also witnessed the reactions of the Iraqi people to the increasing threat of war.

Thirteen members of the Iraq Peace Team remained in Baghdad through the past weeks of war to report on their experiences during the violence of invasion and the recent chaos.

Riseley's talk will include an update of activities of Iraq Peace Team members still in Iraq, as well as a discussion of the challenges that lie ahead for the Iraqis and for Americans who wish to help preserve the integrity of the U. S. as a peace loving nation.

Other Places to go:

Albuquerque Journal article on Mary Burton Riseley
Iraq Peace Team
Voices in the Wilderness

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	Tues. August 12, 2003 7pm, "Back from Baghdad"
	Slide show and eye witness report by Quaker Activist Mary Burton Riseley
	Mary Burton Riseley, spent a month in Baghdad as a member of the Iraq Peace Team, a project of the international peace and humanitarian aid group Voices in the Wilderness.
	First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego 4190 Front Street, Hillcrest, San Diego (opposite UCSD Medical Center) free parking in church ACE parking lot
	An opportunity to gather knowledge, exchange ideas, turn information into action.
	FREE EVENT! PLEASE COME EARLY! LIMITED SEATING!
	Sponsored by Peace and Democracy Task Force of First Unitarian Universalist Church
	Visit www.firstuusandiego.org for future Dates & Topics Subscribe to email at PeaceDemTF@aol.com or for more info, call 858-459-4650
	"We are in what educators call a teachable moment. We'll lose it if we roll over and shut up." Bill Moyers
	More about Mary Burton Riseley: Riseley returned to the U. S. from Baghdad on March 7. She became familiar to many New Mexicans because her dispatches were published in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Silver City newspapers and read on local radio and TV stations. They were also distributed by e-mail friendship networks to hundreds of readers around the U. S. and abroad.
	While in Iraq, Riseley worked with children at a Baghdad cancer hospital and witnessed the crisis in health and well being throughout the country caused by twelve years of crushing economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United Nations in 1990. She also witnessed the reactions of the Iraqi people to the increasing threat of war.
	Thirteen members of the Iraq Peace Team remained in Baghdad through the past weeks of war to report on their experiences during the violence of invasion and the recent chaos.
	Riseley's talk will include an update of activities of Iraq Peace Team members still in Iraq, as well as a discussion of the challenges that lie ahead for the Iraqis and for Americans who wish to help preserve the integrity of the U. S. as a peace loving nation.