December 29th marked the first day of a roughly twelve-person, two-week Fast for Yemen in New York and Washington D.C. (click here for participants and schedule). Vigil photos by our friend Patrick James Walsh; selfieContinue reading
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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
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
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
U.S. Is Complicit in Child Slaughter in Yemen – Kathy Kelly
August 10, 2018 On August 9, a U.S.-supported Saudi airstrike bombed a bus carrying schoolchildren in Sa’ada, a city in northern Yemen. The New York Times reported that the students were on a recreational trip.Continue reading
Beit Ummar and South Hebron Hills – Carolyn Coe
Above: Reem and Della watch the funeral procession. July 14, 2018 from Beit Ummar, Palestine Two days before the funeral of a man killed by the IDF, Reem, 17, can’t sleep. She anticipates the upcomingContinue reading