"Hope Out Loud" was a gathering for peace held in Hartford, Connecticut, on September 8, 2002. The event featured an afternoon of speakers, musicians, and poets in Hartford's Bushnell Park, all in opposition to plans for another war agains
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"Hope Out Loud" was a gathering for peace held in Hartford, Connecticut, on September 8, 2002. The event featured an afternoon of ten speakers, seven musical acts, and two poets in Hartford's Bushnell Park, all expressing their opposition to another war against Iraq.
The first speaker in this recording is Dan Jones, of the September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. He lost a brother-in-law in the attack on the World Trade Center.
The second speaker is Dave Ionno, of Veterans for Peace. He was in the Vietnam War, and has fought against war ever since.
And the third speaker in this program is Anne D'Alleva, who teaches Women's Studies at the University of Connecticut, and is a board member with the Connecticut chapter of the National Organization for Women.
Introductions were given by members of the HartBeat Ensemble, a local political theatre group that MC'd the event.
"Hope Out Loud" was co-sponsored by the Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Greater Hartford United Nations Association, the Hartford Vieques Committee, the Storrs Friends Meeting / Quakers for Peace, the American Friends Service Committee, Jews for Peace in the Middle East, the Greater Hartford Green Party, WWUH Radio, the Progressive Student Alliance, VOID of Trinity College, and others.
The Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice can be reached at (860) 523-1534 or via e-mail to mmorris at afsc.org.
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