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Kathy Kelly is a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end economic sanctions against Iraq. She and her companions helped send over 70 delegations to Iraq, from 1996 to 2003, in open defiance of the economic sanctions. With members of the Iraq Peace Team, a project of Voices, Kelly lived in Iraq during the 2003 U.S. invasion and initial weeks of the U.S. Occupation. From Amman, Jordan, she has written regular reports, this summer, about the plight of Iraqis who have fled the violence in their country. (see www.vcnv.org) Kelly has been involved in numerous nonviolent campaigns to end war, some of which have involved lengthy imprisonment. As a war tax refuser, she has refused all forms of federal income tax since 1981.
SHARE Friday, October 15, 2021 Abandoning Yemen?
For nearly four years, alleged abuses suffered by Yemenis whose basic rights to food, shelter, safety, health care and education were horribly violated, all while they were bludgeoned by Saudi and U.S. air strikes, drone attacks, and constant warfare since 2014.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, July 16, 2021 Reckoning and Reparations in Afghanistan
The U.S. government owes reparations to the civilians of Afghanistan for the past 20 years of war and brutal impoverishment.
SHARE Tuesday, July 6, 2021 Why Daniel Hale Deserves Gratitude, Not Prison
Pardon Daniel Hale, a former Air Force analyst who blew the whistle on the consequences of drone warfare. Hale will appear for sentencing before Judge Liam O'Grady on July 27.
SHARE Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Art Against Drones
In many war zones, incredibly brave human rights documentarians risk their lives to record the testimonies of people suffering war-related human rights violations, including drone attacks striking civilians.
SHARE Sunday, April 11, 2021 Hunting in Yemen
The U.S. is complying with a coalition using starvation and disease to wage war. With 400,000 children's lives in the balance, with a Yemeni child dying once every 75 seconds, what U.S. interests could possibly justify our further hesitation.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Like a Rocket in the Garden: The Unending War in Afghanistan
Under President Biden, the United States would likely abide by Trump's recent troop withdrawals, maintaining a troop presence of about 2,000. But Biden has indicated a preference for intensified Special Operations, surveillance and drone attacks. These strategies could cause the Taliban to nullify their agreement, prolonging the war through yet another presidency.
SHARE Thursday, August 6, 2020 Reversal
Today, the 75th anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima, should be a day for quiet introspection. On the bridge outside of Boeing, the world's second largest defense contractor, activists held placards urging Boeing to stop making weapons.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Yemen: A Torrent of Suffering in a Time of Siege
In war-torn Yemen, the crimes pile up. Children who bear no responsibility for governance or warfare endure the punishment.
SHARE Saturday, June 27, 2020 Battleground States
The world that our global empire is swiftly creating, through our devastating oil wars in the Middle East and our arriving cold wars with Russia and China, is a world without winners.
SHARE Tuesday, June 2, 2020 Our Disaster
The Saudis may want to extricate themselves from the war, but so far they haven't stopped the bludgeoning air strikes or lifted the blockade. The Saudi-led war against Yemen continues.
SHARE Saturday, May 30, 2020 Beating Swords to Plowshares
"The question isn't: did the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 have a lawful excuse to do what they did. The question is, what's our excuse not to do more? What will rise us?"
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, April 3, 2020 "He's Got Eight Numbers, Just Like Everybody Else"
The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 now await sentencing for their action, performed two years ago inside the Kings Bay Trident Submarine base in southern Georgia. They acted in concert with many others who take literally the Scriptural call to "beat swords into plowshares."
SHARE Saturday, March 28, 2020 Vigil for Peace in Yemen, a New Norm
Normally, during the public vigils, one or more participants would provide updates on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, the ongoing war, and U.S. complicity. As COVID-19 threatens to engulf war-torn Yemen, it is even more critical to raise awareness of how the war debilitates the country.
SHARE Thursday, March 19, 2020 Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws, A Humanitarian Message
U.S. sanctions against Iran, cruelly strengthened in March of 2018, continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people. Presently, the U.S. "maximum pressure" policy severely undermines Iranian efforts to cope with the ravages of COVID-19, causing hardship and tragedy while contributing to the global spread of the pandemic.
SHARE Saturday, January 4, 2020 An eyewitness to the horrors of the US "forever wars" speaks out
Images of battered and destroyed hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and of hospital personnel trying nevertheless to heal people and save lives, help me retain a basic truth about U.S. wars of choice: We don't have to be this way.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 28, 2019 Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq
We can seek to pay reparations for suffering caused through our wars. We can work to abolish war, mourn the deaths of Al-Baghdadi's children and question how conditions inside U.S. military camps, in Iraq, led to the extremism of Al-Baghdadi and his ISIS followers.