BRUNSWICK — Human rights activist Ann Wright will share her perspectives on women in international struggles for peace and justice Saturday at the Curtis Public Library in Brunswick at noon.

On Oct. 6, Wright was released from an Israeli jail following her fourth attempt to challenge the blockade of Gaza. She has been to Gaza six times participating in the 2009 Gaza Freedom March and the 2010, 2011 and 2015 Gaza Freedom Flotillas. She was aboard the Mavi

Marmara in international waters when Israel’s military boarded it and killed ten passengers in 2010.

After being deported from Israel on Oct. 6, she joined water protectors at Standing Rock to oppose the North Dakota Access Pipeline.

“Ann Wright is an articulate and passionate spokesperson and an ally to people struggling for peace and justice around the planet,” said Maine peace activist Lisa Savage. “She is doing the kind of diplomatic work that the U.S. State Department often neglects as it promotes corporate interests like fracking around the world.”

Wright, a member of Veterans for Peace, reports regularly in Common Dreams, Consortium News and Oped News on her participation in local struggles against militarism and for the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

In “A firsthand account of Women’s Boat to Gaza,” published Oct. 10, she wrote, “The internationally isolated enclave called Gaza has almost one quarter of the population of Israel yet is kept in virtually perpetual darkness by the policies of the State of Israel, which also limits the amount of water, food, construction and medical supplies …”

A retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel and a former US diplomat, Wright resigned from the State Department in 2003 in opposition to the invasion of Iraq.

Last year she was on Jeju Island, South Korea with a delegation from Veterans for Peace supporting villagers protecting their soft coral reef from military base construction.