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(Amman, Jordan – July 30, 2007) Last weekend was an important one, regarding education, here in Jordan. Jordanian high school students learned…
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.
Last week, Umm Daoud, (her name means “Mother of Daoud”), met me and three friends at a bridge that crosses into her…
This past Tuesday, in Fairbanks, Alaska, nine people entered the office of Senator Ted Stevens to deliver their “emphatic request” that the…
Earlier this week, I received a joyful phone call from Baghdad. Members of a family I’ve known since 1996 announced that one…
Sr. Rose Leo, the principal of the grade school I attended, was also a talented musician who could have had a career…
An Iraqi friend whom I’ve known for ten years looked worn and very weary yesterday when he came to visit me in…
Barely a day goes by when I don’t learn a new report about a beleaguered Iraqi refugee, or of an entire family,…
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butcheredthere was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered.…
This July in Dublin, five peace activists were put on trial for disarming a U.S. warplane parked on the tarmac of Ireland’s…
v In the summer of 1994, I was part of a four-person Christian Peacemaker Team dedicated to filing reports on human rights…