Peace Outreach and Activism
Topics
Iraq Humanitarian Crisis; Achieving Global Peace; US policy of genocide in Iraq, US Foreign Policy Motives, War in Yugoslavia, Israeli/Palestinian crisis, The Agony of Yugoslavia, Illegal humanitarian aid mission to Iraq, Ramadan bombing of Baghdad, Save the Iraqi Children, Iraq Sanctions Challenge
Speakers
Former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark; former UN Assistant Secretary-General, Denis Halliday (video); Phylis Benis (video); Kathy Kelly (video); Bishop Thomas Gumbleton; Timothy Conway; Alex Garabet; Richard Becker; Michelle Kimball; Dennis Apel; Gene Hoffman; Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Gabri l Kassab of Basra, Iraq; Elizabeth Robinson; Professor Fred Logevall; and Prof. D. Djordjevic.
Locations
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara; Santa Clara Islamic Center, Santa Clara; St. Marks Church, Isla Vista; Unitarian Church, Santa Barbara; Capps Community Center, San Francisco; Santa Barbara City College; UCSB.
Media Coverage
Television ABC affiliate - KEYT; Com 17, Santa Barbara; Channel 4 news, San Francisco; Channel 2 news, San Francisco; CBS affiliate - KSBY Newspaper Santa Barbara News-press, The Independent, International and national papers including The New York Times Radio KCSB interview, KJEE, KEYT 1250, KCLU (public radio), KDB
Demonstrations / Vigils / Other Projects 1999
First draft of resolution to end Iraq sanctions and bombing, for the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors. The resolution was passed.
Meetings with Government Representatives
7/7/98 Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Gene Hoffman, Michelle Kimball, Dennis Apel met with Congresswoman Lois Capps to discuss the Iraq crisis, and to urge her to sign Congressman John Conyers letter to the President regarding lifting Iraq sanctions. Congresswoman responded with a letter to the Int'l Relations Committee sub-chair urging a Congressional hearing on the subject.