We’re just now posting this piece from Ken’s January 2018 visit with the Afghan Peace Volunteers (www.ourjourneytosmile.org), ably representing Voices. Early on the first day of 2018, as first light got a tentative fingerhold onContinue reading
Kathy Kelly in Boston Sunday 2/18
In Boston, Massachussets starting at 3pm this Sunday (2/18), Kathy Kelly will give a talk at the Community Church of Boston (565 Boylston St in the 2nd-floor wheelchair-accessible Lothrop Auditorium), with music by CommUnity VoicesContinue reading
Fly Kites Not Drones 2018 – Maya Evans
Over the last 5 years, UK anti-drone campaigning activities have included entering the drone control base at RAF Waddington to plant a peace garden and carry out a citizens’ inspection; blockading Israeli drone manufacturer ElbitContinue 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
Beyond “Opposing the Trump Agenda” 1/20/2018
By Brian Terrell On January 20, 2018, in Columbia, Missouri, more than 1600 people participated in the Solidarity Rally and March, hosted by Our Revolution: Mid-Missouri. I was one of five speakers invited to addressContinue reading
The Kids the World Forgot – Ken Hannaford-Ricardi
Our friend (and Voices representative) Ken Hannaford-Ricardi writes from Kabul, as a guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers. I spent much of yesterday with some kids the world forgot. Young, remarkably sturdy and resilient, theyContinue 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
Solidarity from Central Cellblock to Guantanamo- by Brian Terrell
On Thursday, January 11, the sixteenth anniversary of the opening of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba was marked by a coalition of 15 human rights organizations gathered in Lafayette Park, acrossContinue 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
Death at the Gate – Ken Hannaford-Ricardi in Kabul
January 2018 The number of visitors passing through the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ (APVs’) Borderfree Nonviolence Community Center in Kabul is incredible. Each afternoon, nearly sixty high-school-age students attend free classes to prepare them for theContinue reading