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Kelly: Pressured from all sides in Pakistan’s Swat Valley
Znet Article, May, 16 2010
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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: 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
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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 Drones…Lest We Reap the Wh...
Kelly: How do People Keep Going?
Znet Article, February, 10 2009
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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: Traveling Light
Znet Article, December, 09 2007
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Traveling with as light a load as possible is something I long for during long stretches away from home. I routinely discard paperwork and periodicals, “recycle” gifts and give away clothing. But, here in Amman, Jordan, when a ten year-old Iraqi ...
Kelly: She Stands At Every Door
Znet Article, August, 07 2007
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She Stands At Every Door
Kelly: Dancing in Darkness
Znet Article, August, 01 2007
Kathy Kelly
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Dancing in Darkness
Kelly: "Attuned to Tom and Jerry"
Znet Article, July, 25 2007
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Last week, Umm Daoud, (her name means "Mother of Daoud"), met me and three friends at a bridge t...
Kelly: Do Something Good
Znet Article, February, 25 2007
Kathy Kelly
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This past Tuesday, in Fairbanks, Alaska, nine people entered the office of Senator Ted Stevens to deliver their "emphatic request" that the Senator vote against supplemental funding for the war and then began reading the names of Iraqis and U.S. p...
Kelly: Engagement with War
Znet Article, January, 30 2007
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Earlier this week, I received a joyful phone call from Baghdad. Members of a family I've known since 1996 announced that one of their younger daughters was engaged. Broken Arabic and broken English crossed the lines -"We love you! We miss you!" ...
Kelly: Refugee Dreams
Znet Article, January, 12 2007
Kathy Kelly
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Sr. Rose Leo, the principal of the grade school I attended, was also a talented musician who could have had a career as an opera singer. Three days a week, after school, our girl's chorus assembled for practice, singing musical exercises until Sr....
Kelly: Wrapped Around a Bullet
Znet Article, January, 03 2007
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Wrapped Around a Bullet
Kelly: Sources of violence
Znet Article, November, 18 2006
Kathy Kelly
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Barely a day goes by when I don't learn a new report about a beleaguered Iraqi refugee, or of an entire family, in desperate need of help. We think hard, within our Voices for Creative Nonviolence network, about ways to build concern for the estim...
Kelly: When Evil Doing Comes Like Falling Rain
Znet Article, October, 13 2006
Kathy Kelly
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butcheredthere was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil doing com...
Kelly: Peace on Trial
Znet Article, July, 25 2006
Kathy Kelly
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This July in Dublin, five peace activists were put on trial for disarming a U.S. warplane parked on the tarmac of Ireland's Shannon airport. In February, 2003, with the U.S. completing its build-up for "Shock and Awe", these five activists broke ...
Kelly: Burying the Water
Znet Article, December, 10 2004
Kathy Kelly
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v In the summer of 1994, I was part of a four-person Christian Peacemaker Team dedicated to filing reports on human rights conditions in Jeremie, located in the southern finger of Haiti. When I arrived, I spent one day in Port au Prince, waiting ...
Kelly: Crossing Lines
Znet Article, March, 29 2004
Kathy Kelly
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This weekend, I’m preparing for an April 6, 2004 entry into the Pekin FCI (Federal Correctional Institute) in Peoria...
Kelly: People Have Endured A Nightmare
Znet Article, December, 05 2002
Kathy Kelly
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THE CORPORATE media have spent hours of airtime furiously speculating about every last detail of the looming U.S. assault on Iraq. Every detail but one--the terrible human toll of this latest stage in Washington’s war on the Iraqi ...
