The Albert Schweitzer Fellows for Life Lecture Series
Leadership by Example:
Idealists Creating Change Schweitzer Fellows for Life Exemplary individuals share their wisdom
A program of and their achievements promoting social justice
The Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program Peace activist Kathy Kelly believes non-violence necessarily involves simplicity, service, sharing of Health and Medicine resources and non-violent direct action in resistance Policy Research Group to war and oppression.
The Albert Schweitzer She is a founder and co-coordinator for Voices for Fellowship™ Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org ), a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare. Her
Quentin Young, MD organization has been working closely with the Chairman Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers in search of non- military solutions to end the war. Since May 2010, Arthur Kohrman, MD Advisory Council Chair Ms. Kelly has visited Afghanistan four times with small delegations intent on learning more about Margie Schaps Executive Director conditions faced by ordinary people in Afghanistan, a country afflicted by three decades of warfare. Ray Wang Program Director In 2009, Ms. Kelly lived in Gaza during the Operation Cast Lead bombing. Later Janna Stansell that year, Voices formed a small delegation to visit Pakistan, aiming to learn more Program Associate about the effects of U.S. drone warfare on the civilian population and to better
understand consequences of U.S. foreign policy in Pakistan. From 1996 – 2003,
Supported in part Voices activists formed 70 delegations that openly defied economic sanctions by by: bringing medicines to children and families in Iraq. Ms. Kelly and her companions lived in Baghdad throughout the 2003 "Shock and Awe" bombing.
Ms. Kelly has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times since 2000. She traces her activism to her childhood, when she read about the Holocaust. Baxter International “I remember thinking that I never, ever, ever, ever want to be the person who is Foundation trying to be an innocent bystander while something that awful goes on.”
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