Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly (kathy@vcnv.org) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence.
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Views Tuesday, December 04, 2018 Seeing Yemen from Jeju Island Several days ago, I joined an unusual skype call originated by young South Korean founders of “The Hope School.” Located on Jeju Island, the school aims to build a supportive community between island residents and newly arrived Yemenis who seek asylum in South Korea. Jeju, a visa-free port, has... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 30, 2018 The Long, Brutal U.S. War on Children in the Middle East On November 28, sixty-three U.S. Senators voted in favor of holding a floor debate on a resolution calling for an end to direct U.S. Armed Forces involvement in the Saudi-UAE coalition-led war on Yemen. Describing the vote as a rebuke to Saudi Arabia and the Trump Administration, AP reported on... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 10, 2018 U.S. Is Complicit in Child Slaughter in Yemen On August 9, a U.S.-supported Saudi airstrike bombed a bus carrying schoolchildren in Sa’ada, a city in northern Yemen. The New York Times reported that the students were on a recreational trip. According to the Sa’ada health department, the attack killed at least forty-three people. According to... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 24, 2018 'God Only Knows': The Tortured, Killed, or Forcibly Disappeared People of Yemen “If they would just confirm to us that my brother is alive, if they would just let us see him, that’s all we want. But we can’t get anyone to give us any confirmation. My mother dies a hundred times every day. They don’t know what that is like.” In July of 2018, an Amnesty International report... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 26, 2018 On Purpose, In Kabul Writing this week for the Chicago Tribune, Steve Chapman called a U.S. Government report on the war in Afghanistan “ a chronicle of futility .” "The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction" report says the U.S. spent large sums “in search of quick gains” in regional stabilization... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 20, 2018 Hungering for Nuclear Disarmament In the state of Georgia’s Glynn County Detention Center, four activists await trial stemming from their nonviolent action, on April 4, 2018, at the Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay. In all, seven Catholic plowshares activists acted that day, aiming to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command to “beat... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 11, 2018 A Mile in Their Shoes: In Praise of Afghans Walking for Peace This past Friday in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, Hazara girls joined young Pashto boys to sing Afghanistan’s national anthem as a welcome to Pashto men walking 400 miles from Helmand to Kabul. The walkers are calling on warring parties in Afghanistan to end the war. Most of the men making the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Scourging Yemen On May 10, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed the UN Security Council and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that Saudi Air Defenses intercepted two Houthi ballistic missiles launched from inside Yemeni territory targeting densely populated civilian areas in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. No one... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 02, 2018 Teen Solidarity Against the Merchants of Death Here in Kabul, as the rising sun begins to warm our chilly rooms, I hear excited laughter from downstairs. Rosemary Morrow, a renowned Australian permaculture expert, has begun teaching thirty-five young students in a month-long course on low-resource farming. He flashed me a warm smile and shook... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 30, 2018 A Treacherous Crossing On January 23 rd an overcrowded smuggling boat capsized off the coast of Aden in Southern Yemen. Smugglers packed 152 passengers from Somalia and Ethiopia in the boat and then, while at sea, reportedly pulled guns on the migrants to extort additional money from them. The boat capsized , according... Read more |