F Cordaro speech_ StratCom gate rally during 2008 GN conf_1

'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

Frank Cordaro (Iowa) is a lifetime career activist for peace and justice. He lives with and is a founding a member of the 32-year old Des Moines Catholic Worker (DMCW) community (www.DesMoinesCatholicWorker.org) providing daily hospitality to needy people. Cordaro subscribes to a long tradition of civil disobedience as a model and means for effecting social change. He identifies with the Berrigan brothers, Dan and Phil, and their direct action approach to peacemaking, based on a biblical Jesus who was a radical, nonviolent, egalitarian reformer, acting his way to the Cross and inviting others to do the same. In 1998, Cordaro served a six-month sentence for a "God's of Metal" Plowshares witness. In 2004 he helped established the Phil Berrigan Catholic Worker House for Peace and Justice as part of the Des Moines Catholic Worker community. Cordaro has organized public programs and events designed to raise the awareness of the local community and others across the country to the values of nonviolent direct action and community responsibility. Cordaro has been arrested eight times in the Des Moines area protesting the current war in Iraq, and served two 30-day jail sentences in Dec 2004 and Oct 2007. He last crossed the line at StatCom's Offutt AFB on Dec 28, 2005 and served six months in jail in 2006. He has served over 4 years of jail and prison time for his nonviolent resistance at Offutt AFB -- frank.cordaro@gmail.com'

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