Christian Peace Witness Iraq: Worship & Witness in Washington, D.C.
April 29, 2009 at 7:00pm
Washington Convention Center
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Wednesday, April 29
National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle, NW (all events)
Opening Convocation
12:30-1:30 p.m
Diana Butler Bass - Episcopalian, author, and Senior Fellow at the Cathedral College of Washington National Cathedral
Noah Baker Merrill - Quaker, Cofounder of Direct Aid Iraq, a humanitarian and peacebuilding effort working with Iraqi refugees
Workshops
2:00 p.m Nonviolence training
2:00 p.m Advocacy training
4:30 Legal Briefing for Nonviolent Direct Action
WORSHIP & WITNESS
7:00 p.m. National City Christian Church
Tony Campolo — Author, pastor, social activist, sociologist, and passionate follower of Jesus
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. — Minister, community activist, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, and U.S. Air Force Reserve Veteran
Sr. Dianna Ortiz — U.S. born survivor of torture in Guatemala, Founder of Torture Abolition and Survivors' Support Coalition International
Elizabeth McAlister — Peace activist and co-founder of Jonah House
Daniel Berrigan — Catholic priest, poet, peace activist
NajLaa Al-Nashi — Iraqi displaced by war and Middle East Coordinator for Direct Aid Iraq will send a special video address from Jordan to the CPWI
Worship continues with candlelight procession to White House.
Witness and Nonviolent Action at the White House
Rev. Raphael Warnock – Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, the spiritual home of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kathy Kelly – Catholic Kathy Kelly has been to Iraq 24 times and lived in Baghdad throughout the “shock and awe” bombardment of March 2003
