{"id":769,"date":"2004-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=769"},"modified":"2004-12-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T05:00:00","slug":"veteran-peaceworker-to-speak-at-emu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2004\/veteran-peaceworker-to-speak-at-emu\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Peaceworker to Speak at EMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid;margin: 5px;padding: 5px;float: right;width: 200px;font-size: 10px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/images\/gish-courthouse.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"184\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Peggy Gish\" \/><br \/>Peggy Gish, speaking during a peace vigil.  <\/div>\n<p>  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/commongrounds\/\">Common Grounds Coffeehouse<\/a> at Eastern Mennonite University will host Peggy Gish, an Athens, Ohio, native who recently returned from her fourth trip to Iraq, working with <a href=\"http:\/\/cpt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She will speak about her experiences 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 8, in the Coffeehouse located on ground floor of the University Commons.<\/p>\n<p>Gish, 63, has been in Iraq for a total of 13 months in the past two years. The CPT team in Iraq has worked to reduce violence, promote fair treatment of Iraqi detainees and to witness the conditions of life under the U.S. occupation.<\/p>\n<p>  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mph.org\/hp\/books\/iraq.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/images\/Iraq.gif\" width=\"100\" height=\"155\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Gish's book\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>Gish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peggy Gish, speaking during a peace vigil. 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