A Season for Non-Violence
Guild Complex
A Season for Nonviolence, January 30 ? April 4. is a national 64 day ? educational, media, and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities.
A Season for Nonviolence, January 30 ? April 4. is a national 64 day ? educational, media, and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities. Inspired by the 50th and 30th memorial anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this international event honors their visions for an empowered, nonviolent world. Tonight Guild Complex is proud to present a discussion with Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly and newcomer poet Ada L. Rivera.
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly helped initiate Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the UN/US sanctions against Iraq. Kelly has taught in Chicago area community colleges and high schools since 1974. she has helped organize nonviolent direct action teams in Haiti (?94), Bosnia (?92&?93) and Iraq (?91). She presently helps coordinate the Voices in the Wilderness campaign. Recongnized by the Hummboldt Park Quantum Project for her Outstanding Achievement, Ada L. Rivera is one of Chicago?s young ambassadors of poetry. Ada has performed with the Chicago Spoken word Crew, Cipher, Gen X, Redmoon theater and at the National Women?s Day Conference at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Ada L. Rivera is the winner of the Public Allies ? Tomarrow?s Leaders Award.Performers
Kathy Kelly, Ada L. Rivera