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January 3, 2008

In a day-before-the-caucus effort to obtain from Senator Barack Obama a pledge of withdrawal from Iraq, nonviolent actors representing “Voices for Creative Nonviolence” and the Des Moines Catholic Worker community witness a spurned media and turned backs at the Senator’s Des Moines campaign office.

January 3, 2008

Sen. Obama’s media person felt the need to throw the press out of a protest in his Des Moines campaign office.

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January 3, 2008

Kathy Kelly and Chicago based Voices for Creative Nonviolence, along with Des Moines based Catholic Peace Ministries staged a nonviolent Peace action at the campaign office of Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. The peace activists asked all candidates to agree to end the war in Iraq among other peaceful actions, if elected to the office of president.

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January 2, 2008

Interview with Kathy Kelly, co-ordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Washington Journal, in Des Moines (C-Span)

Des Moines - With 40 percent of Iowa’s Republican caucus … all » voters expected to come from the ranks of conservative Christians, peace activists occupied Mike Huckabee’s campaign headquarters in Iowa’s capital city today with signs asking the former Baptist minister, “Who Would Jesus Bomb?”

Eight members of the Iowa Occupation Project and Voices for Creative Nonviolence arrived at Huckabee’s Locust St. campaign office early Monday afternoon (Dec 31, 2007), waiting for the former Arkansas governor’s reply to a letter delivered two months ago that sought his pledge to completely withdraw from Iraq within 100 days of assuming office; halt all military actions against Iraq and Iran; fund the rebuilding of Iraq as well as health, education and infrastructure needs in the U.S.; and “…the highest quality health care, education and jobs training benefits for veterans of our country’s Armed Services.”

January 1, 2008

Des Moines Catholic Worker community asks U.S. Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee “Who Would Jesus Bomb?” at his Des Moines campaign office days before the Iowa caucus. Huckabee did not respond.

For more information and links to other articles about the December 31 SODaPOP action see the Des Moines Catholic Worker page

A talk given by the US peace activist Kathy Kelly, at Our Lady of Ransom church in Eastbourne on Saturday, 17th November 2007.

View both the full talk and the questions & answers at Eastbourne Live Television

October 13, 2007

On September 21st twelve courageous Iowa young people occupied the office of Senator Charles Grassley demanding that he take a strong stand to end the U.S. war in Iraq and to bring the troops home as soon as possible. To stop funding this illegal and immoral war being wages in our name. They called for all young people to stand for Peace!

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July 27, 2007

This past March, New Jersey Occupation Project activists sought to meet with their Senators, Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez. Denied access to the Senators offices, they continued with their action in the lobby of the building. Eight people were arrested in this act of nonviolent civil resistance / civil disobedience.

In late July, the Newark 8 were acquitted—the third time in less than a month that activists were found “not guilty” in trials following arrests made during the Occupation Project campaign. Following is a video of the action.

May 20, 2007

Kathy Kelly, co-founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, and David Smith-Ferri, poet and activist, report on their recent trips to Amman, Jordan, where they lived amongst people who fled violence in Iraq.

Recorded in Palo Alto, CA on May 20, 2007 at an event produced by Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.

June 2007

Kathy Kelly presents her experiences of visits to Iraq before the US occupation and her subsequent visits. The video is in 5 parts.

Part 1