Sherri Maurin

Sherri is an educator, Nonviolence trainer, long-time activist organizer and an Associate Member of Veteran’s for Peace (VFP). Sherri travels all over the US speaking truth to power and promoting Nonviolence. She has served as a Nonviolent Peacekeeper in Palestine, Cairo, and throughout Central America. Her 2014 “Peace Journeys” will take her to Afghanistan and Jeju Island in So. Korea.

PEACE JOURNEYS

Afghanistan 2014

• 08/05  Sherri Maurin Leaving For Kabul
• 08/06 The Clouds Over Kabul
• 08/07 Arrival & New Friends
• 08/08 Friday Picnic
• 08/09 & 10  Simple, Nonviolent Inter-ethnic Community
• 08/11 Street Kid Program
• 08/12 Dr. Hakim: No To Wars
• 08/18/ Privilege & Courage
• 08/28 Zekerhulla’s Story: Surmounting Fear Through Nonviolent Resistance
• 08/31 Alarm & Analysis: Kathy Kelly & Sherri Maurin
• 11/26 Emergency Hospitals & America’s Longest War

Projects/Affilations

• Current Northern California promoter for Campaign Nonviolence — actively building a long-term Nonviolence movement active in ending war, poverty and a solution to the climate crisis.
• Organizer, Soviet Union student peace delegation
• Concord Naval Weapons Station — Nuremberg Actions Core member — NA was founded on the principles from the Nuremberg Trials — that if there is an injustice anywhere, we must stand up to it, or be held accountable for our complicity.
• Assistant to Friar Louie Vitale, OFM
• Hunger Strikers supporter — long-term strikers risk their lives for justice (since the 47 day water only Veterans Fast for Life (1986).
• CloseGitmo.net founding member and Hunger Strikers supporter. Part of the team for Elliott Adams and others. Strikers seek to give voice to the voiceless, close Guantanamo down, and stop torture in our prisons. The Strikers fasted for more than 80 days in solidarity with the prisoners in Guantanamo.
• Loves sailing
• High School Teacher
• World Beyond War — a global movement to end all wars — member of the Coordinating and Strategy Committees
• Active with Immigration issues for 20+ years; School of the America’s Watch; Anti-War, Anti-Nuclear issues, SOAW West, CodePink, Occupy Beale Air Force Base, Shanti Sena Network, and SF Friends Meeting