Retired U.S. Army colonel and U.S. State Department diplomat Ann Wright will present the 2009 Kessel Memorial Lecture 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Centennial Student Union Ostrander Auditorium at Minnesota State University.
The MSU Department of Political Science & Law Enforcement will sponsor the event. The public is invited.
Wright served for 13 years on active duty and 16 years in the Reserves. In 2003, just prior to the U. S. invasion of Iraq, Wright resigned in protest of what she considered an illegal war that lacked the sanction of the United Nations Security Council.
Since then she has been arrested at least five times and has been banned from military bases for promoting the film “Sir, No Sir!,” which documents the resistance of military personnel to other unjust wars.
Wright is coauthor of the 2007 book “Dissent: Voices of Conscience.”
The annual Kessel Memorial Lecture is held in honor of the late professor Abbas Kessel, who taught political science at MSU.
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