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'''Rev. Pierre Loomis. Williams''' is a native of St. Petersburg, Florida and joined the Marine Corps in 1965. He is a survivor of the Khe Shan seige.<ref>http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Board_of_Directors.vp.html</ref> | '''Rev. Pierre Loomis. Williams''' is a native of St. Petersburg, Florida and joined the Marine Corps in 1965. He is a survivor of the Khe Shan seige.<ref>http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Board_of_Directors.vp.html</ref> | ||
Revision as of 11:51, 28 April 2010
Rev. Pierre Loomis. Williams is a native of St. Petersburg, Florida and joined the Marine Corps in 1965. He is a survivor of the Khe Shan seige.[1]
Religious career
Pierre Williams received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, and his Master of Divinity Degree from Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia. After being awarded the Master of Divinity degree, he also completed pastoral residency at Johns-Hopkins Hospital located in Baltimore, Maryland. He currently serves as Staff Chaplain at Harbor Hospital, Baltimore. He is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church[2].
Fraud conviction
In late 1999, or early 2000, Pierre L. Williams, 52, of Baltimore, Maryland, pled guilty to defrauding the United States Department of Education by using false social security numbers in order to secure $29,500 in guaranteed student loans. Specifically, Williams pled guilty to one count of Student Assistance Fraud before the Honorable Thomas F. Hogan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Williams, was scheduled to be sentenced on February 8, 2000 and faced up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and an order of restitution.
According the information provided to the court during today's hearing, Williams was pursuing a master's degree in divinity at the Wesley Theological Seminary at the time of the offense and in the fall of 1995, submitted an application for financial aid using his true social security number. Because he had previously defaulted on his college student loans in the 1980's, his financial aid application was denied. For the following academic year, he submitted a second financial aid application using a false social security number. The Office of Financial Assistance at Wesley Theological Seminary approved this application and processed the loans, In subsequent applications, Williams used two other social security numbers, both false, to secure additional loans. When officials at Wesley learned of the discrepancies and confronted the defendant, he initially denied having committed the fraud, but he eventually admitted his guilt in statements made to federal investigators and administrators at Wesley[3].
Activism
Pierre Williams is an "authority on federal equal opportunity and minority business enterprise programming". Formerly, he served as Equal Opportunity Officer and Manager of the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration's Minority Business Enterprise Program. He is an active and contributing member of Baltimore United for Peace and Justice, the Phillip Berrigan Memorial Chapter of Veterans For Peace and the National Alliance For the Mentallly Ill, where he serves as a "community ambassador[4]."
- Pierre has been awarded numerous awards for his advocacy for minority rights in the areas of housing discrimination and developing business opportunties for minority and women businesses. In Baltimore, he is particularly sensitive to the plight of homeless veterans.
Obama volunteer
Leading Baltimore Communist Party USA member Tim Wheeler blogged January 26, 2008 from the Obama campaign in Columbia South Carolina[5];
- It is chilly and threatening rain but the media is predicting a record voter turnout of people fired up by Obama's message of hope. I rode down from Baltimore on a bus with 40 other volunteers. It was chartered by three members of the Maryland General Assembly who have kept us working diligently since we arrived. Nights we sleep on the gymnasium floor of the Y, strewn with mostly youthful volunteers from as far away as California. Early this morning two more busloads arrived from Washington, D.C.
- I have been canvassing with a friend, Rev. Pierre Williams, a United Methodist minister in Baltimore. We got a vivid feel for just how deeply Obama's message is resonating here going door-to-door in a working class neighborhood yesterday.
America's Future Now
Williams attended the 2009 America's Future Now Conference[6].
Veterans for Peace
As at 2009 and 2010, Pierre L. Williams served on the Board of Directors of Veterans for Peace.[7] Veterans for Peace is a member group of United for Peace & Justice and seeks to "protest the immoral and disastrous Iraq War and oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building".[8]
Communist Party Religion Commission
In 2010, Pierre Williams was secretary of the Religion Commission of the Communist Party USA[9].
References
- ↑ http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Board_of_Directors.vp.html
- ↑ http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Board_of_Directors.vp.html
- ↑ http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oig/invtreports/dc72000.html
- ↑ http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Board_of_Directors.vp.html
- ↑ http://paeditorsblog.blogspot.com/2008_01_20_archive.html
- ↑ http://transitional.pww.org/afghans-need-peace-not-war/
- ↑ VFP website: Board
- ↑ United for Peace & Justice: Member groups
- ↑ http://www.facebook.com/cpusa?v=app_2347471856