The Gillespie-Senter
Memorial Community Breakfast
August 13, 2022 session:
The Cost
of War
Kevin Cahalan
Pax Christi New Orleans
SATURDAY AUGUST 13, 2022 / 11:00am
First Unitarian Universalist Church
5212 South Claiborne Avenue
(enter via Soniat Street ramp)
Presentation and Discussion in the Rev. Theodore Clapp Large Classroom
Due
to higher COVID-19 transmission rates in Orleans Parish, First Unitarian Universalist Church
requests that face masks are worn at all programs going forward
until further notice
10:55am - Brief personal introductions
11:00am - Keynote Presentation
12:00pm - Progressive Community announcements"You
need no convincing about the wrongness of war. What I would like to
talk about is the misplacement of priorities when it comes to spending,
especially military spending.
Two
thousand nine hundred and ninety six people died in the attacks on
September 11, 2001. And the United States rushed into action declaring
War on Terrorism. According to Brown University’s "Cost of War Project",
we spent 8 trillion dollars and caused 900,000 deaths over the next
twenty years - avenging those earlier deaths and showing the world we
will not tolerate terror.
According
to the United Nations, more than 25,000 people - mainly children - died
that same day from hunger and preventable and curable diseases. And
25,000 have been dying every day since. More than 9 million every year,
nearly 200 million since 9/11/2001.
If
we had spent just a fraction of that $8 trillion on mitigating the
causes of hunger or eradicating a handful of diseases the world would be
a much safer, vibrant place and we Americans might, just might, be more
esteemed than feared and distrusted.”
We
will discuss the National Priorities Project and Women Against Military
Madness (MADD) to put our military spending into perspective with other
countries and explain what we could accomplish if we divert monies from
nuclear war preparedness or the Space Corps into education, health
care, or care for our earth.
OUR
SPEAKER: Kevin Cahalan.... "A kid from New York. When I graduated from
college in 1964, I joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in India
raising pigs and chickens. When I returned, my country (or so I thought)
was at war so I joined the Marines and spent two tours in Vietnam as
an infantry officer.
I
then joined Catholic Relief Services and worked through most of the
seventies in Honduras, Paraguay, and Peru. I came to New Orleans to work
for Odyssey House, a drug rehabilitation program that wore me out after
two years, so I became a mailman for the next twenty five. Upon
retiring from the Postal Service, my wife and I went to Kenya for three
and a half years as an assistant administrator of a hospital and
English/baking instructor at a local high school. I am now retired for
good and live in Kenner."
For more information, contact Brad Ott at bradott@bellsouth.net or (504) 810-3919
The Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast has been a project of
the First Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Team since May 1983
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