Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly (kathy@vcnv.org) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence.
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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 |
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Views Tuesday, January 29, 2019 Defying War and Defining Peace in Afghanistan On January 27th, 2019, the Taliban and the U.S. government each publicly stated acceptance, in principle, of a draft framework for ongoing negotiations that could culminate in a peace deal to end a two-decade war in Afghanistan. As we learn more about the negotiations, it’s important to remember... Read more |
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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 |