Three times Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly will be speaking at a public meeting in Launceston on Saturday 5th November.

City Baptist Church is inviting members of the public to this wonderful opportunity to hear this remarkable woman and to reflect upon her response to war and peacemaking.

Ms Kelly will be speaking at a public meeting on The Cost of War and the Price of Peace at City Baptist Church, 11 Frederick Street Launceston (opposite Princes Square) at 7.30pm on Saturday 5 November. Entry is by a $2 donation. Everyone is welcome.

There will be opportunity for questions and discussion. Ben McKinnon from Invisible Boy will provide some accompanying music and local performing poet ‘Mrs Pickering’ will recite some of his work.

Ms Kelly is “probably the most respected leader in the American peace movement”. She helped initiate Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end UN/US sanctions against Iraq. For bringing medicine to Iraq she was threatened with twelve years imprisonment.

She has been arrested in various countries more than sixty times. In the United States she was once jailed for nine months for sowing corn in the grounds of a nuclear silo.

Kathy Kelly has invested her life in the search of non-military solutions to end wars, often at great personal cost and risk. She has lived in many war zones in Nicaragua, Gaza, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq, remaining in Bagdad during the “shock and awe’ bombing of that city, supporting Iraqi civilians.

Ms Kelly is in Australia on a national speaking tour organised by Pace Bene Australia.

For more information, or for photo opportunities, please contact Pastor Jeff Mckinnon at City Baptist Church on 6331 4900 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or go to http://www.kathykellytour.org