Prisoners Of Conscience
The Run - Prisoner's Reaction
 
   Within a week or so of sending the letters to the prisoners I received a response from one of them and it kind of suprised me. After spending many hours corresponding with Patrick and Erik I had learned that a whole lot of prisoners have few resources to write letters back and I really wasn't expecting anything in return. But then another one came, and then another. It made me realize just what we were doing meant to these folks behind the bars. I knew it was going to be special!

It was at this moment that I decided to read these letters at the opening ceremony and during the course of the Run.

These are excerpts from most of the letters I received from the prisoners: 		 




  "Thank you all for remembering me and the other fine SAO37 witnesses/prisoners."
Toni Kathleen Flynn - Crisp County Jail




"Your all's run offers a grain of hope in a barren time - one from your hearts, that gets carried by your feet - communally. The Wobblies used to say "Vote with your feet." Your run is part of the antidote to what we witnessed on Nov 5th... You's taking your feet & voices to the street in a run that'll continue long after the finish line of that day."
John Heid - FPC Schuykill, Minersville, PA




"By running, walking, praying, chanting, fasting you an I are witness to the world, in the most disarming ways that we are putting our lives on the line - across the line! - for peace, justice, love and nonviolence. I sing along with U-2 "WALK ON,WALK ON, WALK ON!""
John Patrick Liteky - Crisp county Jail




"Thank you once again for your prophetic efforts! May you run and not be weary, walk and not be faint!"
Pastor Charles Booker-Hirsch - FCI Mckean, Bradford PA




"I commend all of you for your spirited efforts in behalf of peace and justice in our world community."
Janice Sevre-Duszynska - FPC Lexington, Lexington, KY




"Thanks to all the running group for caring about suffering people like Leonard Peltier and the victims of graduates of the SOA. I am honored to be included in your good effort."
Kathleen Boylan - FPC Alderson, Alderson, WV




"Thanks to all the Runners. Sorry to hear Greenville is not in your path but believe me I appreciate your support for the closing of the SOA. Blessings on you each and all."
Kathleen Desauth - Greenville FPC, Greenville, IL




"God bless you all on your Run For Freedom. Peace, Salaam, Shalom."
Kate Fontanazza - FPC Greenville, Greenville, IL




"Sisters! Brothers! We who need each other are together in a world so violent. We dare not desair because we are together in the hope born of struggle for freedom from fear, war, oppression and violence. Keep on running, dear friends, and we who need each other will bring God's justice and liberation."
Erik Johnson - FCI Manchester, Manchester, KY




 
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