Don’t Move! The major news stories here in the U.S., all chilling, point out how readily U.S. authorities will murder people based on race and the slightest possibility of a threat to those in placesContinue reading
Author: Kathy Kelly
What’s at Stake
June 23, 2016 In the historic port city of Yalta, located on the Crimean Peninsula, our delegation to Russia visited the site where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, in February of 1945, concluded negotiations ending World WarContinue reading
Why go to Russia?
B61 nuclear missiles. Photo Credit U.S. D.O.D. (SSGT Phil Schmitten) June 17, 2016 Since 1983, Sharon Tennison has worked to develop ordinary citizens’ capacities to avert international crises, focusing on relations between the U.S. andContinue reading
De-Incarceration, a Different Drum so Needed
June 9, 2016 Along with VCNV companions, I’m part of a 150 mile walk from Chicago to Thomson, IL, a small town in Northwest IL where the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is setting up anContinue reading
Building Trust in Afghanistan
May 30, 2016 Here in Kabul, I read a recent BBC op-ed by Ahmed Rashid, urging a “diplomatic offensive” to build or repair relationships with the varied groups representing armed extremism in Afghanistan. Rashid hasContinue reading
Surveillance and Surveys
In Kabul, where the Afghan Peace Volunteers have hosted me in their community, the U.S. military maintains a huge blimp equipped with cameras and computers to supply 24 hour surveillance of the city. Remotely pilotedContinue reading
Visits and Conversations in a Kabul Winter
Here in Kabul, last week, at the Afghan Peace Volunteer (APV) community home that hosts me, I watched Abdulhai and visiting activist Aaron Hughes work out ways to secure the greenhouse which they had partiallyContinue reading
Flowers from Guantanamo
Here in Kabul, young friends with the Afghan Peace Volunteers look forward to learning more about “The Tea Project” in late December, when Aaron Hughes arrives, an artist, a U.S. military veteran, and a coreContinue reading
Breaking Bread in Kabul
Here in Kabul, over breakfast with Afghan Peace Volunteers, or APVs, we easily recalled key elements of the conflict resolution and peer mediation “train the trainers” workshops that Ellis Brooks, with Voices for Creative Nonviolence-UK,Continue reading
If We Care About People
“Why did they attack us? We were trying to serve people.” –Khalid Ahmad, age 20, a survivor of the U.S. Attack on Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Kunduz Hospital. Following the October 3rd U.S. attack onContinue reading