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DESCRIPTION:From Guerilla to Grandmother: Politics of Rage and Practical 
 Peace with Katherine PowerFriday\, December 7\, 7pm &ndash\; 9pm\n&ldquo
 \;I didn&rsquo\;t set out to be a terrorist&rdquo\; begins Katherine Pow
 er&rsquo\;s bio. Come hear this local activist&rsquo\;s remarkable story
  of seeking peace and reconciliation in the wake of being accomplice to 
 a heinous crime.\nIn 1970 Katherine Power was a Brandeis student who wen
 t from being an activist against the Vietnam War to joining a&nbsp\;guer
 rilla revolutionary group. In the course of a bank robbery in which she 
 drove the getaway car\, Boston police officer Walter Schroeder was kille
 d. Power fled from justice but surrendered 23 years later when she reali
 zed that she could no longer hide her past from her teenage son. She ple
 d guilty to charges of armed robbery and manslaughter and served six yea
 rs in prison. Katherine Power uses her very public inner journey from gu
 errilla to fugitive to prisoner to penitent to explore the politics of r
 age and the possibilities of peace.\nWrites Katherine of peacemaking wit
 hin her own family:\n&ldquo\;I remember when my son came home from night
  school and told me about a film his teacher had shown\, a film about th
 e schools in Cleveland with holes in the walls\, outdated textbooks\, an
 d inadequate teachers. I could hear the hurt and outrage in his voice as
  he recounted how the city students&rsquo\; conditions compared to those
  in the schools of the wealthy suburbs. I felt both tenderness and fear 
 that he would be blinded by this outrage and throw his life away and oth
 ers&rsquo\; along with it. As I had when I was just his age. I asked him
  how he would live with knowing this&mdash\;how wrong and damaging it wa
 s\, how much he wanted to make it change&mdash\;without destroying his l
 ife. Together we had no answer except to stay always aware of the questi
 on\, to remember that the blindness of the rage was not the only possibl
 e place from which to act.\nI have had to confront the singular reality 
 of violence\, to see the pain on the faces of victims of my outraged rig
 hteousness. And yet I cannot give up consciously looking at hurtful inju
 stices that demand a response. Practical Peace is my ongoing work to mak
 e change without making enemies.&rdquo\;\nRead more about Katherine on h
 er website:&nbsp\;http://practicalpeace.net/\nWe hope you&rsquo\;ll join
  us on December 7th in this season of peace.
URL:http://jamaicaplain.patch.com/events/jp-forum-katherine-power-from-gu
 erilla-to-grandmother-politics-of-rage-and-practical-peace
SUMMARY:JP Forum: Katherine Power - From Guerilla to Grandmother: Politic
 s of Rage and Practical Peace
LOCATION:First Church In Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist: 6 Eliot St
 \, Jamaica Plain\, MA
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