[JNV] Maya free / Kathy speaks

[Justice Not Vengeance]

1) Maya walks free

but for how long?

Today Maya Anne Evans appeared in Court 7 of Horseferry Road
Magistrates Court, for refusing to pay two fines in connection with
anti-war protests in contravention of the Serious Organised Crime and
Police Act (2005).

The district judge listened to Maya's statement explaining she would
not be paying on grounds of conscience, to stand up for the right to
protest, and in remembrance of the 1.2 million Iraqis who are
estimated to have died as a result of the war and occupation (see JNV
home page www.j-n-v.org ).

He then decided to prolong the agony still further by giving her
another 28 days to pay, to be followed once again by pressure from the
bailiffs.

Maya is determined not to pay, and to resist any attempt by bailiffs
to seize goods from her home.


2) Kathy Kelly speaking tour

and premiere of Sonia Azad's film 'Giving a voice to Iraqi children',
based on her  recent trip to Jordan.

BATTLEFIELDS WITHOUT BORDERS: IRAQ'S REFUGEE CRISIS.
A UK SPEAKING TOUR WITH RENOWNED US PEACE ACTIVIST KATHY KELLY, 13 -
17 NOVEMBER.

MAIN LONDON EVENT:
7pm-9pm, Thursday 15 November 2007
Human Rights Action Centre
17-25 New Inn Yard London EC2A 3EA
(tube: Liverpool Street)

With:
* KATHY KELLY, renowned US peace activist
* LOUSISE MOOR, Amnesty International, co-author 'Millions in Flight:
the Iraqi Refugee Crisis'
* SONIA AZAD, Children Against War
* A speaker from the Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq (www.csdiraq.com)

Also featuring the world premiere of Children Against War's new film
'Giving a voice to Iraqi children', shot in Jordan this August.

Kathy Kelly is the co-founder Voices in the Wilderness US, which sent
scores of sanctions-breaking delegations to Iraq during the 90s and
early 2000s.

She has visited Iraq 26 times since 1991, lived in Baghdad during the
2003 invasion, and has recently spent four months in the Middle East
living with Iraqi refugees.

She has helped organize - and participated in - nonviolent direct
action teams in Haiti ('94), Bosnia ('92 & '93) and Iraq (Gulf Peace
Team, '91), and was among the first internationals to visit Jenin,
following the massive 2002 Israeli assault on the West Bank refugee
camp.

In 1988 she was sentenced to one year in prison for planting corn on
nuclear missile silo sites, and served nine months of the sentence in
a Lexington, KY maximum security prison.

In 2000 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the American
Friends Service Committee.

Organised by Iraq Occupation Focus, Justice Not Vengeance and Voices UK.
www.iraqoccupationfocus.org.uk | www.j-n-v.org | www.voicesuk.org

OTHER EVENTS:

BANGOR
7pm, Tuesday 13 November
Lecture Room, Main Arts Building, University of Bangor

HEBDEN BRIDGE
7.30pm, Wednesday 14 November
Trades Club, Holme St, HX7 8EE

LEEDS
12 noon - 1pm, Thursday 15 November
Room MB.B11, University of Leeds, (Woodhouse Lane) Parkinson building.

SHERBORNE
7.30pm, Friday 16 November
Sherborne House, Newland, DT9 3JG

EASTBOURNE
1.15pm, Saturday 17 November
Our Lady of Ransom Church, 2-4 Grange Rd, BN21 4EU

Kathy will also be taking part in an:

ACTIVISTS' ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON WAR AND RESISTANCE
7pm, Saturday 17 November
London Mennonite Centre, 14 Shepherds Hill, N6 5AQ
tube: Highgate.

For further information contact Voices UK: www.voicesuk.org, 0845 458 2564