Art and/or Peggy Gish
Art and Peggy Gish are career peace, civil rights and human rights activists who embody the motto of their primary affiliation, Christian Peacemaker Teams: “Getting in the way†Since the American civil rights movement and on, organic farmers Art and Peggy Gish have been getting in the way of injustice and violence from here to Hebron to Baghdad.
Peggy was in Iraq as peace advocate and witness before, during and following the recent invasion of Iraq; she has spent 11 of the last 16 months on the ground in Iraq. She returned to the United States March 2004.
Art is a graduate of Manchester College and Bethany Theological Seminary. He is the author of The New Left and Christian Radicalism (Eerdmans, 1970), Beyond the Rat Race (Herald Press. 1972), Living in Christian Community (Herald Press, 1979), and Hebron Journal: Stories of Nonviolent Peacemaking (Herald Press, 2001). Art Gish has been part of Christian Peacemaker Teams in Hebron since 1995, getting in the way of Israeli military and settler violence against Palestinian civilians.