Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly (kathy@vcnv.org) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence.
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Views Monday, September 30, 2019 The Wounds of War Its economy gutted by war, Afghanistan’s largest cash crop remains opium. Yet farmers there do grow other crops for export. Villagers in the Wazir Tangi area of Nangarhar province, for example, cultivate pine nuts. As a precaution, this year at harvest time, village elders notified the governor of... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 28, 2019 The Wounds of War in Afghanistan Its economy gutted by war, Afghanistan’s largest cash crop remains opium. Yet farmers there do grow other crops for export. Villagers in the Wazir Tangi area of Nangarhar province, for example, cultivate pine nuts. As a precaution, this year at harvest time, village elders notified the governor of... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 11, 2019 A Morning in Afghanistan n a very warm September morning in Kabul, several dozen men, women, and children sit on the carpeted floor of a room at the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ Borderfree Center. The women cluster together. All wear burqas, but because of the heat they push the steel blue veils back, revealing their faces... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 23, 2019 The Ongoing Dread in Gaza: So Many Names, So Many Lives Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian now living in the United States, grew up in Gaza. Last week, while addressing Chicago activists committed to ending Israeli attacks and blockades in the region, he held up a list of the names of 1,254 Palestinians living in Gaza killed in just one month of Israel’s “... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 12, 2019 Remnants of War Intense fighting and hideous attacks battered Afghans throughout their country last week as negotiators in Qatar weighed the benefits and costs of a peace agreement that might stop the bloodshed. In Kabul at least 40 people , including one child, were killed in a complex Taliban attack. Dozens of... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 26, 2019 An Honorable Course in Iran: End Sanctions, Resume Dialogue Last week, Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian graduate student at the State University of New York in Albany, wrote about how U.S. policies cause suffering and trauma far beyond U.S. borders. Her diabetic father, for example, is in danger of losing access to medicines because sanctions against Iranian... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 28, 2019 ‘Every War Is a War Against Children’ At 9:30 in the morning of March 26, the start of the fifth year of the Saudi-led coalition war against Yemen, the entrance to a rural hospital in the northwest part of the country was teeming as patients waited to be seen and employees arrived at work. Suddenly, missiles from an airstrike hit the... Read more |
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Views Sunday, March 10, 2019 Judging U.S. War Crimes Chelsea Manning, who bravely exposed atrocities committed by the U.S. military, is again imprisoned in a U.S. jail. On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2019, she was incarcerated in the Alexandria, VA federal detention center for refusing to testify in front of a secretive Grand Jury. Her... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 08, 2019 Can We Divest From Weapons Dealers? About three decades ago, I taught writing at one of Chicago’s alternative high schools. It’s easy to recall some of their stories—fast-paced, dramatic, sometimes tender. I would beg my students to three-hole-punch each essay or poem and leave it in a binder on our classroom shelf, anxious not to... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 13, 2019 What it Really Takes to Secure Peace in Afghanistan Hossein, a member of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, (APV), which hosted my recent visit to Afghanistan, rolled up his sleeve to show me a still-healing three-inch wound. Thieves had broken into his family home in Kabul. When they were discovered, one of the robbers stabbed Hossein. An APV coordinator... Read more |