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
Tag: Yemen
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
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
The Quality of Mercy – by Kathy Kelly
November 22, 2017 During the spring of 1999, as part of Voices in the Wilderness’s campaign to end indiscriminately lethal U.S./U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq, the Fellowship of Reconciliation arranged for two Nobel Peace laureates,Continue reading
University of New Haven and Saudi Police: Big Money Makes Strange Bedfellows
by Samayia Taylor, CODEPINK Sept. 30, 2017 In America, college students are just arriving on their campuses- some for the first time- ready to start the new academic year. They have a wide range of interestsContinue reading
Great Hunger
October 3, 2017 Earlier this year, the Sisters of St. Brigid invited me to speak at their Feile Bride celebration in Kildare, Ireland. The theme of the gathering was: “Allow the Voice of the SufferingContinue reading
At Every Door
July 20, 2017 “I come and stand at every door But none shall hear my silent tread I knock and yet remain unseen” -Nazim Hikmet On July 18, 2017, at a U.S. Senate Foreign RelationsContinue reading