Photo: U.S. Speaker Ryan and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – U.S. House Speaker’s Office January 30, 2018 On January 23rd an overcrowded smuggling boat capsized off the coast of Aden in Southern Yemen.Continue reading
Month: January 2018
Beyond “Opposing the Trump Agenda” 1/20/2018
By Brian Terrell On January 20, 2018, in Columbia, Missouri, more than 1600 people participated in the Solidarity Rally and March, hosted by Our Revolution: Mid-Missouri. I was one of five speakers invited to addressContinue reading
The Kids the World Forgot – Ken Hannaford-Ricardi
Our friend (and Voices representative) Ken Hannaford-Ricardi writes from Kabul, as a guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers. I spent much of yesterday with some kids the world forgot. Young, remarkably sturdy and resilient, theyContinue reading
Feb 15th Kathy Kelly at Yemen Forum in Stony Point NY
From 7-9pm on February 15, Kathy Kelly will be speaking in Stony Point, NY (at the Stony Point Center 17 Cricketown Rd) alongside Yemeni-American activist Rabyaah Althaibani and Peace Action NY’s Kate Alexander, at aContinue reading
Solidarity from Central Cellblock to Guantanamo- by Brian Terrell
On Thursday, January 11, the sixteenth anniversary of the opening of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba was marked by a coalition of 15 human rights organizations gathered in Lafayette Park, acrossContinue reading
41 Hearts Beating in Guantanamo
Photo: Witness Against Torture protestors march to the White House (Justin Norman) by Kathy Kelly – January 13, 2018 January 11, 2018 marked the 16th year that Guantanamo prison has exclusively imprisoned Muslim men, subjectingContinue reading
Death at the Gate – Ken Hannaford-Ricardi in Kabul
January 2018 The number of visitors passing through the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ (APVs’) Borderfree Nonviolence Community Center in Kabul is incredible. Each afternoon, nearly sixty high-school-age students attend free classes to prepare them for theContinue reading
Welcome to Kabul – Ken Hannaford-Ricardi
December 31, 2017 It is a dream come true being back among friends in Kabul! Streams of dented Toyotas (They are all Toyotas!) with windscreens cracked like bolts of lightning still jockey for position onContinue reading
Remaining Peaceful Was Their Choice – Kathy Kelly
December 31, 2017 People living now in Yemen’s third largest city, Ta’iz, have endured unimaginable circumstances for the past three years. Civilians fear to go outside lest they be shot by a sniper or stepContinue reading