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DESCRIPTION:James Loney served in Baghdad 3 times with Christian Peacemaker Teams.  
 Loney responded to his commitment to nonviolence by training to enter war 
 zones and engage a peacemaking role in Iraq, to stand with Iraqis during 
 the United States invasion.  On November 26, 2005, James Loney was captured 
 in Baghdad with 3 other CPT members. After two and a half months in 
 captivity, one of his companions, Tom Fox, was killed by the captors. Six 
 weeks later British soldiers freed Jim and his remaining two 
 companions.\nAt this time when the United States is engaged in military 
 fighting in 3 wars, James Loney brings his life to us as occasion to ask 
 ourselves, if we don’t want war, if we believe in nonviolence, what is 
 our active response to war making?\nJames Loney was one of 3 gay men, 
 including his life partner Dan Hunt, who co-founded the Toronto Catholic 
 Worker in 1990.  While living in community with people who were homeless, 
 he witnessed the consequences of poverty and felt challenged to look more 
 deeply at the structures of inequity.  This moved him into further 
 activism, and he trained for Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in 2000.  He 
 first went to Baghdad with CPT in 2003, before the war began.  In 2004, 
 Loney served in Iraq ten weeks with CPT.  The work was to build 
 relationships with Iraqi human rights and peace activists and document 
 abuses of security detainees and denial of their basic human rights by the 
 United States.  In 2005, he joined a 10 day delegation, and began 
 documenting the torture of Iraqi citizens by their own government before he 
 was captured.\nJames Loney has just published, Captivity: 118 Days in Iraq 
 and the Struggle for a World Without War.  Loney will reflect on the 
 commitment to nonviolence in times of war. What can we do when the United 
 States leads its international relations with military means? What are the 
 dilemmas, fears, and hopes we face in practicing nonviolence?\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/05/18676478.php
SUMMARY:James Loney: Convictions Put to the Test
LOCATION:Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515 Broadway, just uphill from the corner 
 of Broadway and Ocean St in Santa Cruz, CA\n\nSuggested sliding scale 
 donation, $8-15 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/05/18676478.php
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