Peace Walk Potluck and Presentation
Kathy Kelly’s group, Voices for Creative Non-Violence, is conducting a 150 mile peace walk from Chicago to Thomson IL. Here is a link to their website with more information: http://vcnv.org/no-thomson-prison/
The Voices Walkers will be entering DeKalb on their 150 mile journey to Thomson, on Thursday June 2nd. They will be staying overnight at the UUFD on Thursday and Friday nights.
Voices is conducting a campaign to oppose the newest supermax federal prison- ADX Thomson. Although Illinois is poised to pass a state law restricting the use of solitary confinement, the federal bureau of prisons will double its number of isolation cells by adding 1,900 of them in Thomson. Voices, according to their website, also opposes “Thomson as a future location to warehouse the 91 remaining Guantanamo detainees because the only legal and correct policy is to release prisoners who are not being charged with a crime.”
We invite you to join us in providing a community potluck meal for them on Thursday night the 2nd at 6pm, with them presenting a program at 7pm at UUFD. They are spending the day on Friday the 3rd in DeKalb to rest. Then we would like you to join us and New Hope Baptist Church with providing them a potluck meal on Friday night the 3rd, followed by another program, this one with Kathy Kelly, who will have just returned from Afghanistan.
If you would like to help out with the potluck or program, please contact Maylan Dunn-Kenney: maylan.dk@hotmail.com.
