by Kathy Kelly May 21, 2018 On May 10, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed the UN Security Council and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that Saudi Air Defenses intercepted two Houthi ballistic missiles launchedContinue reading
Author: Kathy Kelly
Teen Solidarity Against the Merchants of Death – Kathy Kelly
Afghan Peace Volunteers and friends celebrate International Day of Peace in Kabul, Sept 2017 March 1, 2018 Here in Kabul, as the rising sun begins to warm our chilly rooms, I hear excitedContinue reading
Time is Not on Yemen’s Side – Kathy Kelly – Video with transcript
Kathy Kelly, on Feb 15 2018, addresses NY’s “Stony Point Center” outlining the history of peaceful resistance and U.S.-engineered catastrophe in Yemen. She has not as yet had opportunity to review the attached rough transcript.Continue reading
A Treacherous Crossing – by Kathy Kelly
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
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
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
The Quality of Mercy – by Kathy Kelly
November 22, 2017 During the spring of 1999, as part of Voices in the Wilderness’s campaign to end indiscriminately lethal U.S./U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq, the Fellowship of Reconciliation arranged for two Nobel Peace laureates,Continue reading
Mon-Tues in NY – two speaking events
This Monday, Nov 13 in St. Bonaventure, NY: Kathy will speak on The Ongoing Crisis in Yemen at St. Bonaventure University, 3261 West State Road, St. Bonaventure, NY 14778. Free and open to the public,Continue reading
On Armistice Day, Let’s Celebrate Peace
Wilfred Owen, an English poet who was killed in action exactly one week before the Armistice that finally ended World War I was signed, wrote about the horrors of living in trenches and enduring gasContinue reading
From the Ground Up
Photo: Masoumah invites Afghan mothers to speak about difficulties they face (credit: APVs) October 30, 2017 On a recent Friday at the Afghan Peace Volunteers‘ (APV) Borderfree Center, here in Kabul, thirty mothers sat cross-leggedContinue reading