October 14, 2017 Mordechai Vanunu was imprisoned in Israel for eighteen years because he blew the whistle on Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program. He felt he had “an obligation to tell the people of IsraelContinue reading
Author: Kathy Kelly
Great Hunger
October 3, 2017 Earlier this year, the Sisters of St. Brigid invited me to speak at their Feile Bride celebration in Kildare, Ireland. The theme of the gathering was: “Allow the Voice of the SufferingContinue reading
At Every Door
July 20, 2017 “I come and stand at every door But none shall hear my silent tread I knock and yet remain unseen” -Nazim Hikmet On July 18, 2017, at a U.S. Senate Foreign RelationsContinue reading
“Ain’t No Such Thing as A Just War” – Ben Salmon, WWI resister
July 10, 2017 Several days a week, Laurie Hasbrook arrives at the Voices office here in Chicago. She often takes off her bicycle helmet, unpins her pant leg, settles into an office chair and then leansContinue reading
What Does War Generate?
July 3, 2017 At an April, 2017 Symposium on Peace in Nashville, TN, Martha Hennessy spoke about central tenets of Maryhouse, a home of hospitality in New York City, where Martha often lives andContinue reading
“Would You Like a Drink of Water?” Please Ask a Yemeni Child
June 21, 2019 This week, in New York City, representatives from more than 100 countries will begin collaborating on an international treaty, first proposed in 2016, to ban nuclear weapons forever. It makes sense forContinue reading
Courage for Peace, Not for War, in Afghanistan
June 8, 2017 (This article first appeared on The Progressive website) When activists like me return from visiting the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul, Afghanistan, young seamstresses there often entrust each of us with aboutContinue reading
Feed the Hungry, Treat the Sick: A Crucial Training – by Kathy Kelly
June 16, 2017 On June 15, 2017, the New York Times reported that the government of Saudi Arabia aims to ease the concerns of some U.S. legislators over U.S. weapon sales to Saudi Arabia. TheContinue reading
In Yemen, Shocked to His Bones
May 5, 2017 The ruins carpeted the city market, rippling outwards in waves of destruction. Broken beams, collapsed roofs, exploded metal shutters and fossilized merchandise crumbled underfoot. In one of the burnt-out shells of theContinue reading
The Shame of Killing Innocent People
April 27, 2017 On April 26th, 2017, in Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah, the Saudi-led coalition which has been waging war in Yemen for the past two years dropped leaflets informing Hodeidah’s residents of anContinue reading