Sentencing Statements by Kathy Kelly and Richard Ochs, 5/29/18 In a Washington, D.C. courtroom this past Tuesday, Voices’ Kathy Kelly and her fellow activist Richard Ochs accepted guilty pleas for their part in a JanuaryContinue reading
Category: Yemen
Scourging Yemen
by Kathy Kelly May 21, 2018 On May 10, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed the UN Security Council and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that Saudi Air Defenses intercepted two Houthi ballistic missiles launchedContinue reading
Yemen Event (Chicago): 7pm Fri. 4/20 with Prof. Shireen Al-Adeimi
Please mark your calendars for this upcoming Chicago Area Peace Action event: End the US-Saudi War in Yemen: A Discussion with Yemeni Activist, Professor Shireen Al-Adeimi Friday, April 20th 7-9 p.m. Loyola University, Cudahy Science Hall, Room 202Continue reading
Don’t Believe the Media Hype about Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman
We’re quite honored to pass on this timely article by our friend Medea Benjamin. Saudi Arabia’s 32-year-old Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, heir to the Saudi throne after eliminating his rivals, is on a two-weekContinue reading
Time is Not on Yemen’s Side – Kathy Kelly – Video with transcript
Kathy Kelly, on Feb 15 2018, addresses NY’s “Stony Point Center” outlining the history of peaceful resistance and U.S.-engineered catastrophe in Yemen. She has not as yet had opportunity to review the attached rough transcript.Continue reading
A Treacherous Crossing – by Kathy Kelly
Photo: U.S. Speaker Ryan and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – U.S. House Speaker’s Office January 30, 2018 On January 23rd an overcrowded smuggling boat capsized off the coast of Aden in Southern Yemen.Continue reading
Feb 15th Kathy Kelly at Yemen Forum in Stony Point NY
From 7-9pm on February 15, Kathy Kelly will be speaking in Stony Point, NY (at the Stony Point Center 17 Cricketown Rd) alongside Yemeni-American activist Rabyaah Althaibani and Peace Action NY’s Kate Alexander, at aContinue reading
41 Hearts Beating in Guantanamo
Photo: Witness Against Torture protestors march to the White House (Justin Norman) by Kathy Kelly – January 13, 2018 January 11, 2018 marked the 16th year that Guantanamo prison has exclusively imprisoned Muslim men, subjectingContinue reading
Remaining Peaceful Was Their Choice – Kathy Kelly
December 31, 2017 People living now in Yemen’s third largest city, Ta’iz, have endured unimaginable circumstances for the past three years. Civilians fear to go outside lest they be shot by a sniper or stepContinue reading
Let Yemenis Live
by Kathy Kelly December 22, 2017 On May 2, 2017, before becoming Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, as Minister of Defense, spoke about the Saudi-led coalition’s war in Yemen, a war he orchestratedContinue reading