Peace Activist to Speak at SBU
The Franciscan Heritage Program, along with help from Clare College, is hosting a lecture by nationally known peace activist Tom Cornell.
The lecture, titled “To Speak Peace,” is Thursday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. in Dresser Auditorium in the John J. Murphy Professional Building.
The lecture will concentrate on many of Cornell’s past endeavors, and take a look at possible peaceful resolutions of contemporary issues.
Cornell is a veteran peace and civil rights activist. He organized the first demonstration opposing the Vietnam War in 1963, and the first act of corporate resistance in 1965 with the burning of draft cards.
He has been arrested many times including in Selma, Ala., in 1965. He was convicted of one felony and served six months in prison in 1968, and was later pardoned by President Jimmy Carter in 1977.
Cornell is a retired editor of The Catholic Worker, in which he has been published many times. He has also been published in the National Catholic Worker, the National Catholic Reporter and the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
He has received the 1984 New England Catholic Peace Fellowship, the 1985 Waterbury, Conn. Bar Association Liberty Bell Award, the National Catholic Peace Fellowship St. Marcellus Award in 2007, and the New York Metro Pax Christi in 2009.
Cornell will also be visiting the Robert Lax archives in Friedsam Memorial Library. He is eager to come to campus because he was a friend of both Lax and Thomas Merton, the renowned Trappist monk who taught English at St. Bonaventure in 1940-41.
Cornell’s lecture is free and open to the public.
The lecture, titled “To Speak Peace,” is Thursday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. in Dresser Auditorium in the John J. Murphy Professional Building.
The lecture will concentrate on many of Cornell’s past endeavors, and take a look at possible peaceful resolutions of contemporary issues.
Cornell is a veteran peace and civil rights activist. He organized the first demonstration opposing the Vietnam War in 1963, and the first act of corporate resistance in 1965 with the burning of draft cards.
He has been arrested many times including in Selma, Ala., in 1965. He was convicted of one felony and served six months in prison in 1968, and was later pardoned by President Jimmy Carter in 1977.
Cornell is a retired editor of The Catholic Worker, in which he has been published many times. He has also been published in the National Catholic Worker, the National Catholic Reporter and the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
He has received the 1984 New England Catholic Peace Fellowship, the 1985 Waterbury, Conn. Bar Association Liberty Bell Award, the National Catholic Peace Fellowship St. Marcellus Award in 2007, and the New York Metro Pax Christi in 2009.
Cornell will also be visiting the Robert Lax archives in Friedsam Memorial Library. He is eager to come to campus because he was a friend of both Lax and Thomas Merton, the renowned Trappist monk who taught English at St. Bonaventure in 1940-41.
Cornell’s lecture is free and open to the public.
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