Voices in the Wilderness Speaker Cynthia Banas to Speak Saturday
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Speaker: Cynthia Banas member of the
Voices in the Wilderness
Date: July 12th Saturday
Place: ICR
727 Westfall Road,
Rochester NY 14620
585-442-0117
Time: 7:00pm
Speaker: Cynthia Banas
Of the
Voices in the Wilderness
Cynthia will be speaking about her experiences in Iraq during the 2003 Iraq war. She was with Kathy Kelly through out the war in Iraq and has recently returned to the United States.
Date: July 12th Saturday
Place: ICR
727 Westfall Road,
Rochester NY 14620
585-442-0117
Time: 7:00pm
Cynthia Banas is a retired librarian from Vernon, New York who worked for 35 years in the school libraries of New York State, has spent decades working for peace. Her work has taken her to beleaguered communities in Central America and Haiti. With Voices in the Wilderness she has joined forty day fasts, spent many nights in New York City jails, and helped lead delegations to break the economic sanctions.
Also in the early 1990s she was a human rights observer in Haiti. She has visited Iraq twice before and has participated twice in the 40-day fasts to end the sanctions at the United Nations.
Please attend