Peace and Social Concerns Committee Peace Forum, Sunday at Radnor Meeting House 11:15am til Noonish Facilitated by Adam Corson-Finnerty On Sunday, November 23, following fellowship, the Peace and Social Concerns Committee is sponsoring a forum about our constant state of war, and its effect on our society. It will be facilitated by Adam Corson-Finnerty. Adam Corson-Finnerty holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr School of Social Work and Administration. He has worked for various non-profit organizations, Penn Libraries, American Friends Service Committee, International Division, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Quaker retreat, Powell House and Conference Center in Old Chatham, N.Y. Adam has also engaged in public advocacy on environmental and human rights issues. He has published extensively on topics such as human rights and global justice and has led numerous workshops and retreats on these topics for college students and other audiences in the East and Midwest. Today he lives in Southampton, Pennsylvania, and will be joined at Meeting for Worship with his wife Susan Corson-Finnerty. It would be helpful if you viewed some of material to which we have links in number 1 to 3 below, or had the opportunity to read parts of Phil Klay’s book, listed in number 4 below. However, we encourage EVERYONE interested in this topic to attend, regardless of whether you have time to read or view these materials. 1. Rachel Maddow’s documentary “Why We Did It: the Invasion of Iraq” is compressed into a 30 minute YouTube Video. It can be found at: https://youtube/watch?v=Sbey4hPlrX0 2. President Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, where he addresses the huge industrial complex that has grown up our engagement in wars: https://youtube/watch?v=CWiIYW_fBfY 3. November 11, 2014 opinion piece in New York Times by Daniel Bolger (retired senior commander in Iraq and Afghanistan), based on his book Why We Lost: nytimes/2014/11/11/opinion/the-truth-about-the-wars-in-iraq-and-afghanistan.html 4. Book entitled, Redeployment by Phil Klay (about the many serious effects of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars on soldiers, both during the wars and after).
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