 And so let me introduce Gail, sorry, and all my, so Gail, I don't even know to, to read, but so Gail Walker is executive director or director of if go pastors for peace and I will let her take it away. Great. Can you hear me Rachel. Yeah. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And Frank and the whole team what a tremendously rich and important event. I've learned a lot. I'm just going to try to make this can concise wanted to follow up on the role of the faith community and the fight against the Cold War. Peter's This presentation I think was just so rich and so so powerful. Too often we know that the religious right has attempted to claim what it means to be a person of faith, but it has been my experience to see clergy that I respect and for me, especially black clergy case and that was the radical MLK that Jeff Cohen just referred to. It's been my experience to see them step up to support movements and issues of concern to those of us fighting against injustice from the savagery of slavery to the vicious impact of Jim Crow from the slavery of police brutality to the campaigns of wicked barbarity, waged by the US Empire at home and abroad. And as Dr. Leah gunning Francis who wrote about the role of spirituality during the uprising in Ferguson Missouri, following the murder of Michael said quote being called to lead a faithful life can take us to places we never expected to go with people who never expected us to join hands with them. I just always feel that that's such a powerful statement, but liberation theology has historically been connected to the fight for social justice as Peter was laying out in a world that oppresses and as such is a tangible expression of what it means to work with God to embrace a future filled with hope is what it means to walk with God. So whether you identify as a person of faith or not we all benefit from embracing hope. And I've been asked to just say a few words this evening about the legacy of my father the late Reverend Lucius Walker, a visionary pastor for peace who wore so many hats but I just want to speak briefly about his work with if go the foundation for community organization. For the past 53 years if go much much of it under the leadership of my father has followed in that tradition of liberation theology if go has organized and supported a variety of social justice issues and campaigns across the world associated with historic and current Cold War domestically involved in the call for reparations support of Native American rights, farm labor organizers fighting injustice of for forced sterilization of women, calling the brutality of the clan, other white supremacists and modern day right wing extremists and standing up for political prisoners, working on issues like hunger and homelessness and environmental racism. Internationally, it goes work has involved campaigns, supporting our brothers and sisters in Africa and Central America, Chiapas, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Palestine, Venezuela and more. Of you know that it goes work to identify the hypocrisy of the so called low intensity warfare and Central America is what led to the creation of a special project that my father labeled pastors for peace. In 1988, when a passenger ferry carrying 200 Nicaraguan civilians and an ifco study delegation were attacked by US funded contras who Ronald Reagan called quote freedom fighters. The attack started with individual gunfire, followed by automatic gun machine gunfire and then heavy artillery that violently shook the ferry boat from side to side. The weapons that the contras used in that attack, and the countless others that the Nicaraguan civilian population were forced to endure throughout the Reagan era were all paid for with US tax dollars. And that attack resulted in the deaths of two people, dozens wounded, including my father. The first caravan the first passage for peace caravan returned to Nicaragua six months later on Christmas Eve with the bus load of material aid for communities from communities in the United States where clergy and activists had stopped to educate US citizens about the reality of the brutal US foreign policy in the region. Our caravan served to illustrate an alternative people to people foreign policy model based on love and mutual respect. And since then it goes continue to illustrate that commitment to social justice working alongside people of conscience and people of faith. So whether that faith be in our fellow human beings, or in a particular religious belief. We've worked together we've organized dozens of caravans throughout Central America, and the Caribbean embrace embracing our commitment to fundamental social change, not charity. In short, it was my dad's belief that all people who struggled for justice were pastors. We continue to work with all kinds of pastors for peace, and we continue to work because we believe that the foundation that he helped to build is really served as a blueprint for us to continue the important work of fighting for justice through action and education, encouraging us all to be shepherds for peace. And as he would call us to do time and time again to step up and be real revolutionaries by practicing our faith. And now we're going to have courtesy of my dear friend Rachel Brunke, a beautiful but brief video tribute to my father, the Reverend Lucius Walker, whose revolutionary spirit lives on. Thank you. Lucius Walker, founder of Ifco Pastors for Peace, was a highly effective and infectious thorn in the side of the US's hateful Cold War policies. While in Nicaragua in the 1980s, he was shot by contra mercenary fire. He was inspired to begin solidarity caravans of aid to Central America, and later after the fall of the Soviet Union to Cuba as the United States tightened its economic blockade against the island nation. The caravans have been going ever since, and for decades, Chris crossed the entire United States on an annual basis, countering the US Cold War lies about Cuba and its importance to the world. Lucius was a bold and principled man of the cloth. He was a revolutionary thinker who never asked permission to build friendships between people or nations that the United States told us to fear and to hate. In fact, we should need permission to wage war, not permission to make peace. Love, he said, was the only license we needed to go to Cuba. Lucius Walker was a great visionary and a liberator of minds and hearts. He passed away in 2010, and to me he was our king in the Cuba Solidarity Movement. His profound work to bust through the US Cold War blockade against Cuba is carried on today by his daughter, Gail Walker, director of IFCO. She is pictured here alongside American graduates of the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, Cuba. They are now doctors, part of more than 150 Americans who have graduated along with tens of thousands of others from around the world from the free medical school. If you know of any young Americans under the age of 25 from economically disadvantaged backgrounds who have dreamed of becoming a doctor, please let them know about this opportunity and to contact IFCO, Pastors for Peace. Lucius Walker, presente. Presente. That's my gift to you, Gail. John and Mai's gift to you. Thank you.