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Kelly: Unarmed and Courageous: Emergency Workers in Afghanistan

Znet Article, June, 01 2010 Kathy Kelly
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For six days in late May, 2010, Emergency, an Italian NGO providing surgery and basic health care in Afghanistan since 1999, welcomed us to visit facilities they operate in the capital city of Kabul and in Panjshir, a neighboring province. We live...

Kelly: Drones and Democracy

Znet Article, May, 19 2010 Kathy Kelly
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On May 12th, the day after a U.S. drone strike killed 24 people in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, two men from the area agreed to tell us their perspective as eyewitnesses of previous drone strikes.

Kelly: Pressured from all sides in Pakistan’s Swat Valley

Znet Article, May, 16 2010 Kathy Kelly
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In May of 2009, under tremendous pressure from the United States, the Pakistani military began a large-scale military operation in the Swat District of Pakistan to confront militants in the region. The UNHCR said the operation led to one of the la...

Kelly: Pacified

Commentary, March, 31 2010 Kathy Kelly
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If the U.S. public looked long and hard into a mirror reflecting the civilian atrocities that have occurred in Afghanistan, over the past ten months, we would see ourselves as people who have collaborated with and paid for war crimes committed aga...

Kelly: White House Action

Blog Post, January, 26 2010 Kathy Kelly
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Minnesota Contingent of the Peaceable Assembly Campaign To Commemorate Warsâ€™ Victims at White House Action

Kelly: Speaking Truth to Power

Commentary, January, 10 2010 Kathy Kelly
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There's a phrase originating with the peace activism of the American Quaker movement: "Speak Truth to Power." One can hardly speak more directly to power than addressing the Presidential Administration of the United States. This past October, stu...

Kelly: Now We See You, Now We Don't

Znet Article, June, 26 2009 Kathy Kelly
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In early June, 2009, I was in the Shah Mansoor displaced persons camp in Pakistan, listening to one resident detail the carnage which had spurred his and his family's flight there a mere 15 days earlier. Their city, Mingora, had come under massiv...

Kelly: Down and Out in Shah Mansoor

Znet Article, June, 12 2009 Kathy Kelly
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In Pakistan's Swabi district, a bumpy road leads to Shah Mansoor, a small village surrounded by farmland. Just outside the village, uniform size tents are set up in hundreds of rows.

Kelly: A Closer Look

Znet Article, April, 03 2009 Kathy Kelly
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It's one thing to study online articles describing the MQ-9 Reapers and MQ-1 Predators. It's quite another to identify these drones as they take off from runways at Nevada's Creech Air Force base, where our "Ground the Dronesâ€¦Lest We Reap the Wh...

Kelly: How do People Keep Going?

Znet Article, February, 10 2009 Kathy Kelly
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People have asked me, since I returned from Gaza, how people manage? How do they keep going after being traumatized by bombing and punished by a comprehensive state of siege? I wonder myself. I know that whether the loss of life is on the Gazan or...

Kelly: Cease Fire, Cease Siege

Znet Article, January, 14 2009 Kathy Kelly
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Yesterday, en route to the Rafah border crossing that leads into Gaza, our driver pointed to a long line of trucks laden with goods that are desperately needed in every area of Gaza. "You see," he said, "all of this is to help people." Generous p...

Kelly: The Big Voice

Znet Article, August, 10 2008 Kathy Kelly
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About six months ago, Dan Pearson, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, swiveled around in his office chair in our tiny “headquarters” to ask what we thought about organizing a walk from Chicago to St. Paul, arriving just before the ...

Kelly: Cold Shoulders

Znet Article, July, 06 2008 Kathy Kelly
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Over the past two years, here in Amman, Jordan, I've regularly visited the family of Umm Hamdi, an Iraqi woman forced out of her native Iraq four years ago by terrifying death threats after her husband, very likely prey to that same threatened vio...

Kelly: Istiklal

Znet Article, July, 04 2008 Kathy Kelly
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Amman - The city of Amman, Jordan, is awash with numerous colorful signs that proclaim independence, "Istiklal." The word is found on posters and placards in store windows. It names a major thoroughfare, a hospital and a shopping center. Appreciat...

Kelly: Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison

Book, December, 17 2007

By Kathy Kelly

Kelly, a founder of Voices in the Wilderness, returned to the US to face a federal prison sentence for protesting at the School of the Americas, the torture and assassin training-ground at Ft. Benning, Georgia. From her cell, Kelly recounts in viv...

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