2009 Events:
November 2009:
STAR*PAC
and
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Brings
Joe Volk
to Des Moines and Iowa City
Tue.-Nov 17,2009 Des Moines Events:
Morning Event: Breakfast at Waveland Rm., Plymouth Ch., 42nd & Ingersoll
WHEN: 8:00 a.m. Tuesday, November 17, 2009
FOR WHOM: Religious & Business Leaders, Peace Advocates
Introduction by: Des Moines Mayor FRANK COWNIE
JOE VOLK to speak on:
Iowans' Role in Stopping the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars
&
Working for Senate Approval of the CTBT
(Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty)
Evening Event: Drake St. Catherine Student Center, 1150 28th St, Des Moines
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 17, 2009
FOR WHOM: Everyone. [Ed Falon's live radio program from 7-8:00]
JOE VOLK to speak on:
Iowans' Role in Stopping the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars
&
Working for Senate Approval of the CTBT
(Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty)
Wed.-Nov 18,2009 Iowa City Event:
Evening Event: Iowa City Public Library – Meeting Room A
When: Nov. 18, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
FOR WHOM: Everyone.
JOE VOLK to speak on:
Iowans' Role in Stopping the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars
&
Working for Senate Approval of the CTBT
(Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty)
For more information contact
STAR*PAC or FCNL Iowa
Box 561 Burt Kisling
Des Moines, IA 50302 Phone: 515-961-0884
515-276-5060 or 515-279-7313 bandbkisling@
In cooperation with the Peace Committee of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, Clarion Alliance, American Friends Service Committee, Catholic Peace Ministry, MFSA (Methodist Federation For Social Action, Iowa Chapter), Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Des Moines Area Ecumenical Committee for Peace, Progressive Coalition of Central Iowa
JOE VOLK Bio: Joe Volk has more than three decades of experience working for peace and social justice. He played a key role in founding the Iraq Working Group and has served as a leader in the Washington Interreligious Staff Committee. He has lobbied Congress to support peaceful prevention of deadly conflict, nuclear disarmament, peace in Iraq, and many other issues.
He is a past chair and current member of the Steering Committee of the US Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL). He is a board member of Africa Action and The Justice Project (a veterans’ organization), and also serves on the Corporation Committee of Haverford College and on the Wilmington College Board of Trustees. He serves on the advisory council of Foreign Policy in Focus, a think-tank without walls.
Prior to joining FCNL in 1990, Joe worked 18 years for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and served as its National Secretary for Peace Education from 1982 to 1990. In February 2007, he participated in a delegation of U.S. religious leaders that traveled to Iran and met with a variety of governmental, academic, and religious leaders in an effort to build intercultural and interreligious understanding during a time of great tension between the U.S. and Iranian governments. In April 2008, Joe traveled to China with other U.S. peace leaders to speak with Chinese scholars, government officials, and representatives from civil society groups about the growing interdependence between U.S. and Chinese foreign, environmental, and economic policies.
In the mid-1960s and early ‘70s, he taught junior high and high school in Ohio (West Chester) and Maine (Bingham). He began a career in the peace movement when in 1967 he refused a deferment from the draft and went into the Army to try to organize troops to refuse deployment to Vietnam. In 1968, he refused to go with his mechanized cavalry unit to Vietnam. Although convicted in a court martial on AWOL charges, he received an honorable discharge after doing a short time in an Army stockade.
A native of Blanchester, OH, he has a BA degree from Miami University (OH) in comparative religions. He resides with his wife, Beth, in Arlington, VA, and commutes to work by bicycle. Their three children -- now adults -- reside in California and Oregon.
