Photo: from NYC Yemen protest, credit Felton Davis PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: December 28, 2018 TWO-WEEK FAST CALLS FOR AN END TO WAR IN YEMEN AND DRAMATIC MEASURES TO AVOID FAMINE; PARTICIPANTS BEGIN INContinue reading
Where Can the Anger Go?
by Carolyn Coe Kabul, December 23, 2018–At a busy four-way intersection in the northwestern part of Kabul, traffic is stuck. There is no traffic signal, and cars are threaded through one another like a wovenContinue 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
Operation Desert Fox at 20 – Brad Simpson
Twenty years ago today on December 16, 1998 Pres. Bill Clinton launched Operation Desert Fox, an illegal, unjustified military attack on Iraq in which the US attacked 100 targets with cruise missiles. I traveled toContinue reading
Dec. 4 Backpack Graveyard Vigil – Peace Action Wisconsin
Peace Action Wisconsin sent us this picture of their impromptu December 4th vigil at Milwaukee’s Federal Courthouse. We’ll add more photos to this page when we get them!
Report from Nov 29 Women Against War Albany NY Vigil
Children are starving in Yemen because of US bombs. 34 Backpack Vigil in Albany on Thursday, November 29th Noon to 1 PM. Originally published on http://www.womenagainstwar.org/wordpress/children-are-starving-in-yemen-because-of-us-bombs-34-backpack-vigil-in-albany-on-thursday-november-29th-noon-to-1-pm/ Despairing of getting House and Senate leadership to allowContinue reading
Seeing Yemen from Jeju – Kathy Kelly
December 4, 2018 Several days ago, I joined an unusual Skype call originated by young South Korean founders of “The Hope School.” Located on Jeju Island, the school aims to build a supportive community betweenContinue reading
The Long, Brutal U.S. War on Children in the Middle East – Kathy Kelly
(Photo: 11 month old Wadah Askri Mesheel in a Yemen clinic, eight hours before his death from malnutrition. Credit: Tyler Hicks/NYT) November 29, 2018 On November 28, sixty-three U.S. Senators voted in favor of holdingContinue reading
What Will It Take to Save the Children of Yemen? – Jeremy Varon
November 29 2018 I sifted through the children’s backpacks laid at the Isaiah Wall, across from the United Nations, looking for one labeled with the name of an 11 year-old boy. That’s the age ofContinue reading
Open Letter to Senator Bernie Sanders
David Swanson of World Beyond War sent out this open letter today in advance of a Senate vote on Senator Sanders’ bill to suspend direct U.S. troop involvement in the war on Yemen. People wishingContinue reading