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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…
Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly (born 1952) is an American peace activist, pacifist and author, one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness, and, until the campaign closed in 2020, a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. As part of peace team work in several countries, she has traveled to Iraq twenty-six times, notably remaining in combat zones during the early days of both US–Iraq wars.
From 2009 to 2019, her activism and writing focused on Afghanistan, Yemen, and Gaza, along with domestic protests against US drone policy. She has been arrested more than sixty times at home and abroad, and written of her experiences among targets of US military bombardment and inmates of US prisons.
People have asked me, since I returned from Gaza, how people manage? How do they keep going after being traumatized by bombing…
Arish, Egypt — Yesterday, en route to the Rafah border crossing that leads into Gaza, our driver pointed to a long line…
About six months ago, Dan Pearson, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, swiveled around in his office chair in our tiny “headquarters”…
Over the past two years, here in Amman, Jordan, I’ve regularly visited the family of Umm Hamdi, an Iraqi woman forced out…
Amman – The city of Amman, Jordan, is awash with numerous colorful signs that proclaim independence, "Istiklal." The word is found on…
Traveling with as light a load as possible is something I long for during long stretches away from home. I routinely discard…
Amman, Jordan – “GET A JOB!” These three words are very familiar to activists bearing signs calling for an end to war,…
(Amman, Jordan — August 6, 2007) At a small, informal school in the basement of a church in Amman, many strings of…
(Amman, Jordan – July 30, 2007) Last weekend was an important one, regarding education, here in Jordan. Jordanian high school students learned…