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Soul Survivors slide presentation |
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by Carol Wagner (No verified email address) |
12 May 2002
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Peace activist Carol Wagner gives a slide presentation about her experiences with Cambodians who survived civil war / genocide of 1975-75. Her new book, Soul Survivors, narrates the lives of 14 Cambodian women and children who personally and spiritually perservered to rebuild their lives and their culture. |
First Mennonite Church, 902 W. Springfield
Peace activist Carol Wagner gives a slide presentation about her experiences with Cambodians who survived civil war of 1975-75. Her new book, Soul Survivors, narrates the lives of 14 Cambodian women and children who personally and spiritually perservered to rebuild their lives and their culture. Sixty-four images from the book draw the reader into contemporary Cambodia to witness the survivors' relentless determination to reconstruct a new world from the rubble. These courageous stories take place in one of the poorest nation of the world where nearly two million people died from executions, starvation or disease. Other topics covered include the Khmer Rouge, the role of the US, the landmine situation, and the Buddist peace movement. Soul Survivors effectively demonstrates the political, economic and psychological links tbetween the destruction of Cambodian society carried out in the 1970s and the suffering experienced by so many Cambodians today.
Carol works with women's and humanitarian organizations in Cambodia and was a UN observer in the country's 1998 election. She is the former director of a center for non-violence in the San Francisco Bay Area. The book will be available locally at Pages for All Ages Bookstore and the Urbana Free Library.
Please come to the presentations and / or listen to the radio interviews and dialogue with Carol |
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by Clint Popetz (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 12 May 2002
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Wednesday May 15, 2002, 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
First Mennonite Church, 902 W. Springfield |