2-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee to speak in Des Moines tonight

Published: November 7, 2007, 1:12 pm

Kathy Kelly, a two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee who recently returned from Amman, Jordan where she lived with a group of Iraqi refugees, will give a lecture in Des Moines tonight titled “What have we done to the people of Iraq?” The lecture will be held at Chet Guinn’s Old Fire Station, 1041 8th Street, Des Moines, Iowa. The Old Fire Station is one block west of the downtown Holiday Inn on the southside of the Des Moines Area Community College parking lot. Kelly is perhaps best known for smuggling badly-needed medical supplies into Iraq during the U.S. economic embargo and sanctions of the 1990s. She was fined $163,000 by the federal government for her humanitarian civil disobedience, a bill she refuses to pay to this day. Kelly’s presence in Iowa this week is part of a plan by state peacemakers to refocus the mainstream media, presidential candidates, and regular Iowans on the issues surrounding the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and the imperial war

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