Here is a report by Voices’ Buddy Bell, now walking with the Disarm Trident marchers in Georgia, on one of two recent peace walks he attended in the region most threatened by the United States’Continue reading
Author: Buddy Bell
Chicago, IL— Buddy has been a co-coordinator with Voices for Creative Nonviolence since January 2012 and a volunteer since 2005. He organized Voices’ 4 most recent walks in protest of drones and in protest of the NATO summit. He visited Afghanistan 3 times with Kathy Kelly, where they lived with the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul. Buddy was with the Afghan Peace Volunteers in November 2012 as they began a project to distribute duvets to needy families in anticipation of a cold winter.
In 2015, Buddy served as an interpreter and travel companion to Dr Hakim, mentor of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, as they attended a people-to-people gathering at the peace community of San Jose de Apartado, Colombia. Buddy was also part of a delegation to Okinawa and to Jeju Island to witness and participate in protests against construction of new U.S. bases and surrogate bases in the Asia Pacific region, where the U.S. is now "rebalancing" its military force.
A March on Jeju Island – Buddy Bell
On the cusp of July and August, nearly 200 students and 150 adults participated in a 3-day march in opposition to the construction of a second airport on Jeju-Do, South Korea. The plans include levelingContinue reading
Obama Must Bring Us a Waterfall of Pardons
The U.S. will soon be governed by a president who banked his campaign on vilifying Muslims and undocumented immigrants and on promising to maintain the devalued legal status of Black lives. The next twoContinue reading
Policies of Exclusion Challenged Across the Board and Across the Border
On the morning of Oct. 8, a group of US veterans who were deported to Mexico, in some cases after having fought in U.S. wars, congregated in Plaza Ochoa, Nogales, Sonora. They were joined byContinue reading
Activists Complete 150-mile March to Thomson Prison
In late May and early June, Chicago group Voices for Creative Nonviolence held a 150-mile walk against indefinite detention, solitary confinement, and the racist U.S. prison system. For two weeks, a group of 20 justiceContinue reading
Group of Mostly White Activists Take Direction from Black Lives Matter to Demand Racial Justice during Twins’ Opening Game in Minneapolis
A group of about 50 Midwest activists, predominantly white, invited to Minneapolis by the Rye House collective, participated in a 4-day retreat led by Black facilitators from the local Black Lives Matter chapter. The retreatContinue reading
Once More, Civilians Bear the Brunt of this War
A collection of quotes from attacked medical professionals in war zones by Buddy Bell and Kathy Kelly Last year on the early morning of October 3, a Doctors Without Borders trauma center hospital inContinue reading
Make Peace the “First Strike”
This short article first appeared in the November issue of Gangjeong Village Story. In the Fall of 2015, I traveled to Okinawa for the first time and to Jeju Island for my second visit.Continue reading
The U.S. Ought to Un-Swivel Its China Pivot
For the last week, I’ve been walking on a peace march organized by the Nipponzan Myohoji order of Buddhist monks. This march is similar in some ways to another: the Okinawa “Beggars’ March” of 1955-1956.Continue reading