An Inside Look at Iran, by Rudy Perkins

a slideshow and talk by Rudy Perkins
7:00 PM Sunday September 14, 2008
First Unitarian Church, 90 Main Street, Worcester

Co-sponsors: Peace Group of the First Unitarian Church
Nashua River Green/Rainbow Local
Worcester Green/Rainbow Local

Mr. Rudy Perkins will give a slideshow and talk about his recent two-week trip to Iran at the First Unitarian Church of Worcester on Sunday Septermber 14 at 7:00 PM. Mr. Perkins traveled to Iran with a “citizen diplomacy” delegation organized by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an interfaith organization committed to nonviolence. The 21-member delegation met with Iran’s former deputy foreign minister, the current and the incoming Jewish members of the Iranian parliament and other Jewish leaders in Iran, leaders of the Armenian Christian community there, the head of the Center for Interreligious Dialogue in Tehran, and department heads at the Center for Religious Studies in Qom, among many others. The talk is free and open to the public.

An attorney from Athol, MA, Rudy Perkins co-founded /Swing the Vote/ in 2004. Swing the Vote is a political action committee that has been organizing in New Hampshire against pro-war candidates for Congress and the White House. Rudy will relate what he heard from Iranians and present his views on the need for dialogue, not war, with Iran.