{"id":13483,"date":"2023-03-16T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T18:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=13483"},"modified":"2023-03-16T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T18:27:16","slug":"mercy-peace-forum-featuring-joanne-sheehan-set-for-march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2023\/03\/16\/mercy-peace-forum-featuring-joanne-sheehan-set-for-march-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Peace Forum featuring Joanne Sheehan set for March 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A virtual Mercy Peace Forum, featuring Joanne Sheehan, activist for peace and justice, is set for <strong>Monday, March 20 from 7-8:15 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The virtual event and discussion is free, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/joanne-sheehan-nonviolent-activist-for-peace-justice-virtual-discussion-tickets-551700038667\">but registration is required<\/a>. Registrants will receive an email with a Zoom link.<\/p>\n<p>Sheehan has been a nonviolence activist, organizer and trainer with War Resisters League (WRL) since the 1970s and a former chair of War Resisters International (London, 1998-2006). She co-founded the WRL New England Regional Office in 1984 and continues as the coordinator. She has worked on many nonviolent campaigns including feminism and nonviolence, anti-nuclear weapons and power, countering military recruitment, youth empowerment and economic conversion of the military-industrial complex.<\/p>\n<p>Sheehan has lectured throughout the world on nonviolence.<\/p>\n<p>The event is organized and co-sponsored by the Peace History Society along with universities sponsored by the Religious Sisters of Mercy, including Georgian Court University, Gwynedd Mercy University, University of Saint Joseph and Detroit Mercy.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/joanne-sheehan-nonviolent-activist-for-peace-justice-virtual-discussion-tickets-551700038667\">Register for the forum.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13484\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/03\/Mercy-Peace-Forum-2023-Flyer.jpg?resize=993%2C470&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A graphic featuring a photo of Joanne Sheehan with text reading Joanne Sheehan, Nonviolent Activist for Peace and Justice, A Virtual Moderated Discussion, Monday, March 20, 2023 at 7-8:15 p.m. EST.\" width=\"993\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/03\/Mercy-Peace-Forum-2023-Flyer-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C142&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/03\/Mercy-Peace-Forum-2023-Flyer-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C363&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/03\/Mercy-Peace-Forum-2023-Flyer-scaled.jpg?resize=1165%2C550&amp;ssl=1 1165w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/03\/Mercy-Peace-Forum-2023-Flyer-scaled.jpg?w=1986&amp;ssl=1 1986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A virtual Mercy Peace Forum, featuring Joanne Sheehan, activist for peace and justice, is set for Monday, March 20 from 7-8:15 p.m. The virtual event and discussion is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":13484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[2396,5962,5963,706],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/03\/Mercy-Peace-Forum-2023-Flyer-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1209&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-3vt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13487,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483\/revisions\/13487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}