Photo: Houthi-allied tribesmen demonstrating in Yemen for peace talks – Hani Mohammed/AP December 19, 2018 Twenty years ago, a small delegation organized by Voices in the Wilderness lived in Baghdad while U.S. cruise missiles attackedContinue reading
Author: Kathy Kelly
The Long, Brutal U.S. War on Children in the Middle East – Kathy Kelly
(Photo: 11 month old Wadah Askri Mesheel in a Yemen clinic, eight hours before his death from malnutrition. Credit: Tyler Hicks/NYT) November 29, 2018 On November 28, sixty-three U.S. Senators voted in favor of holdingContinue reading
Voices Rising for Yemen – Final Day
Over these past three days, Voices and a coalition of justice-minded organizations have been at and around the United Nations in New York City protesting the ongoing U.S.-Saudi attack on famine-imperilled Yemen. Details are availableContinue reading
U.S. Is Complicit in Child Slaughter in Yemen – Kathy Kelly
August 10, 2018 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.Continue reading
Let Yemenis Live [Video] – Kathy Kelly, Syracuse, NY – 7/16/18
Introduction by Syracuse Peace Council’s Aly Wayne Kathy’s presentation: Let Yemenis Live Question and Answer Session The video from which these selctions were made can be found on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6gEE74F66g and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEwiBJmZrIs
On Purpose, in Kabul – Kathy Kelly
June 26, 2018 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 theContinue reading
Hungering for Nuclear Disarmament – Kathy Kelly
June 19, 2018 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, sevenContinue reading
A Mile in Their Shoes – Kathy Kelly
Photo caption: One of several murals being created by Kabul’s “ArtLords” activists to welcome the Helmand to Kabul peace walkers. June 11, 2018 This past Friday in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, Hazara girls joined young PashtoContinue reading
Peace Prospects for Afghanistan – Kathy Kelly on DemocracyNow!
Voices’ co-coordinator Kathy Kelly returned to Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! news program on June 8, 2018. The full show is available at https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2018/6/8 and both segments with Kathy are viewable below.
Digging Deeper – Kathy Kelly
Above: Afghan Peace March – Mohammad Omar Lemar June 5, 2018 Here in Kabul in early June, outside the home of several Afghan Peace Volunteers, a large drilling machine is parked on what was once aContinue reading