John Farrell
John Farrell, 28, is an organizer at the Voices in the Wilderness office in Chicago. He recently traveled to Iraq for three weeks with Kathy Kelly and other members of Voices in the Wilderness to help maintain friendships that Voices has made with ordinary Iraqi people over the past seven years of delegations and convey to the world in some small way what ordinary Iraqis are saying about the current occupation and chaos in Iraq today. John is a firm believer in nonviolence as a way of life and as a tactic for positive social change. As a former high school teacher, John believes in the possibility of educating others on nonviolent principles and as graduate student in theological studies at Loyola University Chicago he has been learning much about how the principles of nonviolence can be grounded in the ethics of many world religions and philosophies.