January 10, 2020 Try as I did, I found it impossible to send New Year’s greetings to friends in Iraq given the unthinkable and shameless actions of Trump and his regime in the last weeks.Continue reading
Category: Middle East
An eyewitness to the horrors of the US ‘forever wars’ speaks out
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
LUSH Out of Saudi Arabia! VCNV/CODEPINK Sat Dec 14 noon
Voices has stepped up to represent Chicago in CODEPINK’s holiday season of “LUSH Cosmetics Leave Saudi Arabia” protests – we’ll be outside LUSH’s 746 N. Michigan Ave store from noon to 1pm on Saturday DecContinue reading
ACTIVISTS CONFRONT CANDIDATES ON DRONE ASSASSINATIONS AND AUMF AT IOWA DEMOCRATIC EVENT
Essam Attia, an artist and activist from New York, brought his inflatable life size drone replica to Des Moines to protest outside the Iowa Democratic Party’s Liberty and Justice Celebration on November 1, 2019. WithContinue 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
Death, Misery and Bloodshed in Yemen – Kathy Kelly
by Kathy KellyOctober 16, 2019 Writing about his visit to the world’s largest weapons bazaar, held in London during October, Arron Merat describes reading this slogan emblazoned above Raytheon’s stall: “Strike with Creativity.” Raytheon manufacturesContinue reading
Hope in a Time Like Ours: remarks by Brian Terrell at #NoWar2019
Limerick, Ireland, October 5, 2019 I am honored and humbled to be addressing this gathering at this perilous moment, especially as I am here in place of Kathy Kelly, who sends her love and herContinue 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
Qais Al Sindy Caravan- a letter from Cathy Breen
September 18, 2019 Dear Friends, “The point is, art never stopped a war…That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed—theyContinue reading