Elliot Adams has  done organizational work for United for Peace and Justice, War Resisters League, School of Americas Watch, Peace Has No Borders, and Veterans for Peace. In October 2009, Elliott Adams was part of a seven-day delegation to Gaza sponsored by Physicians For Social Responsibility.

As someone who voluntarily signed up for the army, Adams said his experiences have led him to understand fighting doesn’t lead to peace, but instead talking does.

“After coming out of combat, it didn’t take long to realize this process cannot lead to peace,” Adams said.

Elliott moved from being a soldier to a nonviolent warrior. He is Nonviolent Training Coordinator for Veterans For Peace, is a nonviolence trainer for the Fellowship Of Reconciliation and on their CCP Leadership Team. He has also done nonviolence and social movement trainings for School Of Americas Watch, Peacemakers of Schoharie, Student Environmental Action Coalition, War Resistors League, and other groups.

He is now dedicating his life to stopping this war and stopping all war.

Special thanks to Essential Dissent for these videos

“The sorrow of war is felt  – where you stand determines what you see – but at our distance – I wonder how much sorrow is felt..”

Kathy Kelly discusses her experiences in Gaza and Pakistan, and the costs of war-making from the perspective of those who bear the brunt of suffering caused by war.

Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare, and co-founded Voices in the Wilderness, a group which had openly defied economic sanctions from 1996-2003 by bringing medicines to children and families in Iraq.

Sponsor: St. James Church Peace and Justice Committee

First Presbyterian Church
Binghamton, NY November 6, 2009

from Essential Dissent