by Kathy Kelly Originally published by National Catholic Reporter at https://www.ncronline.org/node/18664. The 2003 “shock and awe” bombing of Iraq had finally stopped. From the balcony of my room in Baghdad’s Al Fanar Hotel, I watched U.S. MarinesContinue reading
Category: Iraq
Sat Jan 4 – U.S. Out of Iraq Nat’l Day of Action – Chicago protest 12 noon Sat at Wacker/Wabash
This Saturday, January 4, CODEPINK, the ANSWER Coalition, Veterans for Peace, United AntiWar Coalition (UNAC), World Beyond War, Popular Resistance, and Voices for Creative Nonviolence (among others) have joined in calling for a National DayContinue reading
Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq – Kathy Kelly
“If he’s a good guy, you know, now he’s a bad guy because of the way we treated him.”
The United States Air Force at Incirlik, Our National “Black Eye”
Brian Terrell Current events concerning Turkey and the Kurds in Syria remind me of a conversation I had with a US Air Force colonel almost 17 years ago in a courtroom in Des Moines. ToContinue reading
Talk Nation Radio: Kathy Kelly on Peace, Afghanistan, Yemen, Ireland, and the United States
Kathy Kelly has traveled to war zones and lived alongside ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, and Lebanon. She and her companions in Voices for Creative Nonviolence believe the U.S. should end all U.S. militaryContinue reading
Afghanistan, Drones, Guantanamo, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Nonviolent Resistance Actions, Palestine, Syria, Torture, Yemen
Wed Jun 12 FREE TRIP TO EGYPT screenings
Voices for Creative Nonviolence is happy to help promote simultaneous screenings of the documentary FREE TRIP TO EGYPT to occur in 500 theaters nationwide at 6:30pm Central Time this Wednesday, June 12th. The film followsContinue reading
Memorial Day – Francis Pauc
One of the communal prayers said, “We pray for all veterans, that they may be healed of any physical and mental wounds.” Since I was at the microphone, I added “and any spiritual wounds”, because all of these bastards have spiritual wounds. Every one of them.
News from Cathy Breen in New York, remembering friends in Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Kurdistan and Turkey
Dear Friends, It’s been so long since I have written, that I don’t know where to begin. I pick up a binder and begin scanning through past “Dear Friends” letters. As I read, memories ofContinue reading
Judging U.S. War Crimes – Kathy Kelly
March 10, 2019 Chelsea Manning, who bravely exposed atrocities committed by the U.S. military, is again imprisoned in a U.S. jail. On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2019, she was incarcerated in the Alexandria, VAContinue reading
A Shift: Repudiating War on Yemen – Kathy Kelly
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