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DESCRIPTION:Col. (ret.) Ann Wright speaks on AMERICA'S PIVOT TO ASIA, DESTABILIZING THE 
 REGION AND RECENT TRAVELS IN NORTHEAST ASIA.\nCol. Wright discusses her 
 recent trip to Northeast Asia, Jeju Island, the Article 9 “NoWar” 
 Japanese constitution conference and eight days on the PEACE BOAT traveling 
 to South Korea, Taiwan, Shanghai and Nanjing, China.\nAnn Wright is a 
 retired United States Army colonel and former U.S. State 
 Department official who had spent 19 years in the military and 16 years in 
 diplomatic service. She received the State Department Award for 
 Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand people during 
 the civil war in Sierra Leone. Known for her outspoken opposition to 
 the Iraq War, Col. Wright resigned her diplomatic position in 2003 in 
 protest of Bush’s pending attack on Iraq, U.S. led sanctions and military 
 action destroying the country and the lives and livelihoods of 
 millions.\nWright was a passenger on the Challenger 1, which along with 
 the Mavi Marmara, was part of the Gaza flotilla. She will be part of a 
 global presence in Palestine's Gaza Strip for International Women’s Day 
 2014\nCol. Wright has been engaged in drone resistance in Pakistan, 
 Afghanistan,Yemen, and Gaza. In 2013, she spoke on U.S. foreign policy 
 issues in Turkey, Egypt, Ireland, Belgium, China, Japan and Korea.\nCol. 
 Wright is just back from London where she gave an award to Chelsea Manning 
 at the Oxford Union, Oxford University. While there, she also inaugurated a 
 new whistleblowers' foundation called "Courage". She also met with Julian 
 Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy.\nSponsored by:  CODEPINK and Unitarian 
 Universalists for Peace - San Francisco\nEndorsed by:  14 Friends of 
 Palestine, AFSC San Francisco, ANSWER-Act Now to Stop War and End 
 Racism-Coalition, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, Courage 
 to Resist, Ecumenical Peace Institute/CALC, Friends of Sabeel-Sacramento, 
 Veterans for Peace SF, Women for Genuine Security and more.   \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/02/07/18750463.php
SUMMARY:Col. (ret.) Ann Wright speaks on America's Pivot to Asia
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco\n1187 Franklin 
 Street\nSan Francisco, CA  94109
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/02/07/18750463.php
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