E McAlister speech_ StratCom gate rally during 2008 GN conf_

'The Global Network [brought] together world citizens who [would], for the first time, gather to shine a light on what StratCom had become during its 16th annual conference, April 11 to 13, 2008.' The conference was hosted by the Nebraskans for Peace. For more info. www.space4peace.org/ www.nebraskansforpeace.org

Elizabeth McAlister (Maryland) was a Catholic Nun for 14 years and left that in 1973 to marry Philip Berrigan. Together they founded Jonah House, a nonviolent resistance community in Baltimore, Maryland, where they raised their three children: Frida (33); Jerome (32); and Kathleen (26). Jonah House Community seeks to live simply, to serve the poor of their neighborhood, to study the scriptures together and to put flesh on them in their community living, their teaching, and their resistance. They supported themselves and their community for many years by contract painting. In 1996, they moved to St. Peter's Cemetery in Baltimore, which the community now maintains. They publish a newsletter, YEAR ONE; collect and distribute food to their neighbors twice a week; organize for nonviolent resistance in plowshares action in faith and resistance retreats at least three times a year in Washington D.C. and locally in Baltimore. They put a special emphasis on protest against the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab (which does 91 - 93% of its work in research for the Department of the Navy). Liz has been imprisoned for her nonviolent resistance, and has served time in prisons or jails in West Virginia, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, and in New York. Liz has lectured on nonviolent resistance, community, prayer and peacemaking throughout the United States and in Canada - disarmnow@verizon.net'

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