{"id":8200,"date":"2011-01-06T14:08:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T22:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8200"},"modified":"2011-01-06T14:09:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T22:39:49","slug":"colonel-ann-wright-to-speak-about-recent-peace-delegations-to-afghanistan-and-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8200","title":{"rendered":"Colonel Ann Wright to speak about recent peace delegations to Afghanistan and Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/11.1.10-flyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8201\" title=\"11.1.10 flyer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/11.1.10-flyer-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/11.1.10-flyer-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/11.1.10-flyer.jpg 782w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/11.1.10-flyer.pdf\">Download flyer here<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Witness: Afghanistan and Gaza<\/h2>\n<h3>Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright<\/h3>\n<p>Ann Wright will report back on her recent trip to Afghanistan and the 2nd Gaza  Freedom Flotilla.<\/p>\n<p>Just back from Kabul to Honolulu on December 31st, 2010, Ann will describe the conditions in Afghanistan and the exciting peace activism.\u00a0 Ann worked with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youthpeacevolunteers.org\/\">Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers<\/a> who organized &#8216;Dear Afghanistan&#8217; a world-wide call-in conversation with Afghan youth. Veterans For Peace President Mike Ferner wrote an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2011\/01\/04-1\">Common Dreams<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The effort consisted of an entire day of Skyped-in phone calls, emails, Facebook and Twitter posts, with the goals of providing an opportunity for world citizens to learn about Afghanistan first-hand from experts &#8211; people trying to live their lives in a war zone; provide moral support for the members of Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers (AYPV); and begin linking conversations among a global, below-the-radar network of veteran peace activists, determined that the war in this country can and must be ended absent military force.<\/p>\n<p>Ann will also speak about the second Gaza Freedom Flotilla.\u00a0 Last year, Ann was aboard one of the ships in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that was attacked by Israeli commandos, killing nine people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 10, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Honolulu Friends Meeting House,<br \/>\n2426 O\u2018ahu Avenue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>6:30 pm <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FREE, Sponsored by AFSC Hawai\u2018i Peace &amp; Justice<br \/>\nMore info: 808-988-6266 or kkajihiro@afsc.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download flyer here Witness: Afghanistan and Gaza Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright Ann Wright will report back on her recent trip to Afghanistan and the 2nd Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Just back from Kabul to Honolulu on December 31st, 2010, Ann will describe the conditions in Afghanistan and the exciting peace activism.\u00a0 Ann worked with Afghan Youth &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8200\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Colonel Ann Wright to speak about recent peace delegations to Afghanistan and Gaza&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,161,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-alerts","category-projects-issues-and-campaigns","category-oahu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8205,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200\/revisions\/8205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}