Wheels of Justice

Mooney, 34, former co-coordinator of Voices in the Wilderness and co-founder of the Wheels of Justice Tour, 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.

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 and now he can really get into trouble!