Brian Terrell
Brian Terrell lives and works with his family and friends and small herd of dairy goats at Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm in Maloy, Iowa. Brian began his activism and career with the Catholic Worker movement in New York City in 1975. Since 1999, he has also been employed part time as director of Catholic Peace Ministry in Des Moines. Brian visited Iraq in 1998 and has been active in opposing sanctions and the ongoing war against Iraq and has been arrested for bringing these issues to the Pentagon, the White House, the US Mission to the United Nations.
In 1992, Terrell spent some weeks in Israel and Palestine with an international peace walk, was arrested when the walk crossed the “Green Line,†spent 2 days in jail and was deported. He has also helped organize against the use of Iowa National Guard troops in Iraq and the Air National Guard patrols of the ‘no fly zones’ and has been arrested four times at local Guard installations. Answering an invitation to speak to high school students in Germany, Brian toured Europe this fall, addressing the war in Iraq and United States imperialism.