{"id":9330,"date":"2011-08-27T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T21:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9330"},"modified":"2011-08-27T19:27:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T03:57:04","slug":"report-from-the-audacity-of-hope-u-s-boat-to-gaza-col-ret-ann-wright-and-dr-carol-murry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9330","title":{"rendered":"Report from the “Audacity of Hope” U.S. Boat to Gaza – Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright and Dr. Carol Murry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Speakers: Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright & Dr. Carol Murry<\/h2>\n

O\u02bbAHU<\/h2>\n

Sunday, August 28, 2011<\/strong><\/h2>\n

3:00 –\u00a0 6:00pm<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Revolution Books<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ann Wright and Carol Murry will focus on their experiences aboard “The Audacity of Hope”, which was prevented from sailing to Gaza by Greece, Israel and the U.S. Ann is also just returning from Jeju Island… As always, there will be a talk followed by Q&A, and then socializing. More info at http:\/\/www.revolutionbookshonolulu.org\/<\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday, August 31, 2011<\/strong><\/h2>\n

7:00 – 9:00 pm<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Honolulu Friends Meeting House,\u00a0 2426 O\u2018ahu Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96822<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sponsored by: Hawai\u02bbi Peace and Justice
\n2426 O\u02bbahu Avenue, Honolulu, Hawai\u02bbi 96822. Phone 808-988-6266<\/a> email info@hawaiipeaceandjustice.org<\/a>
\nVisit us on the web at hawaiipeaceandjustice.org<\/a> and on Facebook. Also visit: dmzhawaii.org<\/a><\/p>\n

DOWNLOAD LEAFLET<\/a><\/p>\n

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MAUI ISLAND<\/h2>\n

TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2011<\/span><\/h2>\n

7:00 pm<\/span><\/h2>\n

Retired Army Col. & State Dept. Diplomat Ann Wright on “Citizen Activism”
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UH Maui College, Pilina Building\u00a0Multi-Purpose Room<\/span><\/h2>\n
The presentation is free and open to the public and will be held in the upstairs multi-purpose room\u00a0at the back of the Student Center (Pilina) Building.\u00a0 Sponsors: Maui Peace Action and the UH Maui College Peace Club.<\/div>\n

HAWAI\u02bbI ISLAND<\/h2>\n

Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011<\/h2>\n

6:00 – 8:00 pm<\/h2>\n

Kea\u02bbau Community Center<\/h2>\n
Sponsored by: Malu ‘Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action, P.O. Box AB Kurtistown, Hawaii 96760. Phone 808-966-7622<\/a> email ja@interpac.net<\/a>
\nVisit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org<\/a><\/div>\n
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Friday, Sept. 2, 2011<\/h2>\n

7:00 pm<\/h2>\n

Holualoa Theater (Next to the Holualoa Post Office)<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

The presentations are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

The 2011 Gaza Freedom Flotilla\u2019s U.S. boat \u201cThe Audacity of Hope\u201d attempted to carry support letters to the people of Gaza.\u00a0 Along with other international humanitarian boats, it was was blocked by military commandos from leaving Greece.\u00a0 Hawai\u02bbi residents Ann Wright and Carol Murry were aboard the Audacity of Hope.<\/p>\n

Ann has just returned from Korea\u2019s Jeju Island where citizens are protesting a military base that would destroy their \u201cIsland of Peace,\u201d called \u201cKorea\u2019s Hawai\u02bbi.\u201d<\/p>\n

Come hear Ann and Carol, and talk together about these issues.\u00a0 Let us inspire and activate one another to stand up for justice, peace, and the earth.<\/p>\n

Ann is a retired Army Colonel and State Department diplomat.\u00a0 Carol has a doctorate in Public Health and was on the faculty of the University of Hawai\u02bbi.<\/p>\n

Background on Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ann Wright<\/strong> holds a Master\u2019s and a law degree from the University of Arkansas and a master\u2019s degree in national security affairs from the U.S. Naval War College.\u00a0\u00a0 She spent 13\u00a0 years in the U.S. Army and\u00a0 16\u00a0 additional years in the Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel.<\/p>\n

In 1987, Col. Ann Wright joined the Foreign Service and served as U.S. Deputy Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. She received the State Department\u2019s Award for Heroism for her actions during the evacuation of 2,500 people from the civil war in Sierra Leone, the largest evacuation since Saigon. She was on the first State Department team to go into Afghanistan and reopen the Embassy there in December 2001. Her other overseas assignments include Mongolia, Somalia, Kyrgyzstan, Grenada, Micronesia, and Nicaragua.<\/p>\n

After her distinguished 16 years in the Foreign Service, on March 19, 2003, the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Ann Wright cabled a letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell, stating that without the authorization of the UN Security Council, the invasion and occupation of a Muslim, Arab, oil-rich country would be a disaster.<\/p>\n

Since then, she has been writing and speaking out for peace. She fasted for a month, picketed at Guant\u00e1namo, served as a juror in impeachment hearings, and has been arrested numerous times for peaceful, nonviolent protest.\u00a0 She is an activist for peace and human rights who participated in the Gaza Freedom March and the the Gaza aid Flotillas of 2010 and 2011.<\/p>\n

Ann\u2019s home is in Honolulu. She is the co-author of the book \u201cDissent: Voices of Conscience\u201d\u00a0 (www.voicesofconscience.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Carol Murry<\/strong> lived and worked in rural Thailand and Swaziland; started a community health worker program on Micronesian outer islands; did leprosy research in eastern Bhutan; directed non-profit organizations with a focus on leprosy, HIV\/AIDS, and community health; was University of Hawai\u2019i faculty; and recently researched and authored publications on risk and vulnerability to HIV\/AIDS among Pacific Island youth for UNICEF.<\/p>\n

She has a doctorate in public health and masters in epidemiology from the University of Hawai\u2019i, but considers her true education in health was as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a Bengali village hospital with no electricity, running water, or bathrooms.<\/p>\n

During the time the Israelis were building the wall separating Gaza farmers from their orchards and dividing families, an Israeli friend, who volunteered at Malu \u2018Aina, made the plight of the Gaza people so vivid that she could not look away.\u00a0 The parallels with the apartheid system in South Africa during the time she was in Swaziland were inescapable.<\/p>\n

A presentation by Ann Wright on her return from the first Freedom Flotilla inspired Carol\u2019s application to join the 2011 Freedom Flotilla.\u00a0 She was honored to stand up with Ann Wright and the other passengers and leaders of the US Boat to Gaza in the determination that freedom, justice and peace must come to Gaza and the refusal to sit down until it does.<\/p>\n

Carol\u2019s home is in Honolulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speakers: Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright & Dr. Carol Murry O\u02bbAHU Sunday, August 28, 2011 3:00 –\u00a0 6:00pm Revolution Books Ann Wright and Carol Murry will focus on their experiences aboard “The Audacity of Hope”, which was prevented from sailing to Gaza by Greece, Israel and the U.S. Ann is also just returning from Jeju Island… … <\/p>\n

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