April 10, 2008 • 7:00pm
University Theatre, Christian Brothers University

Featured Speaker • Rev. Bryan Massingale, S.T.D
"Martin Luther King and the Practice of a Peace Making Faith."

Rev. Bryan Massingale is a Catholic Moral Theologian with a focus on liberation theologies, African American religious ethics and racial justice. Recent work applies Catholic social thought to the issues of affirmative action, racial reconciliation, terrorism and the challenge of peacemaking.

2008 Vanderhaar Student Peace Awardee
Ceylon Mooney, Christian Brothers University

Mooney, 34, former co-coordinator of Voices in the Wilderness (vitw.org) and co-founder of the Wheels of Justice Tour (justicewheels.org), has traveled to Iraq twice in violation of U.S.-led economic sanctions. In Jan and Dec 2001, Mooney brought token amounts of relief aid to ordinary Iraqi civilians; he lived among ordinary Iraqis and visited hospitals, water and sewage treatment facilities and power plants to witness first-hand the effects of the first Gulf War and ongoing U.S.-led economic sanctions. Mooney spent his spare time meeting with top UN agency officials to corroborate his eyewitness experiences. Mooney continued his Iraq solidarity work in the United States through the traditional methods of protest, nonviolent resistance, witness and advocacy.

In 2003 Mooney relocated to Chicago to work full-time with Voices in the Wilderness; with an imminent threat of escalated war against Iraq, Mooney and other Chicago-area war resisters undertook nonviolent direct actions, repeatedly, during the early months of 2003, focusing on Boeing World Headquarters, home of the world's largest exporter of war weapons. Since then Mooney has continued his peace work byvolunteering with the Manna House, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, the Wheels of Justice Tour, and the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center. Also a Master Gardener Intern, Mooney was awarded The Vanderhaar Student Peace Award, given annually to full-time student at the undergraduate or graduate level at a Memphis area institution
of higher education who exhibits an outstanding involvement in peace and justice work and demonstrates academic excellence.

Ceylon Mooney will soon make his fourth trip to Palestine to support Palestinian nonviolent resistance to the Israeli occupation; Mooney has traveled throughout the United States and Europe speaking out against war, occupation and sanctions as a lecturer and member of Pezz, Akasha, and Bury the Living, bands tied to human rights campaigns. Mooney just finished his BA in mathematics ('08, magna cum laude, Christian Brothers University) and now he can really get into trouble!

2008 Vanderhaar Symposium Steering Committee
Leo Arnoult Arnoult
Lisa Bell
Jose Davila
Barbara Frankle
Jacob Flowers
Dr. Scott Geis
Rev. Andre Johnson
Rev. Al Kirk
Deacon Curtiss Talley
Ray Terry
Janice Vanderhaar, Chair
Br. Rob Veselsky