Kathy Kelly is a cofounder and co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She was actively involved in a campaign to end the US/UN sanctions in Iraq; has made 24 trips to Iraq since 1996; was in Baghdad in March of 2003 for a peaceful protest during our "Shock and Awe" campaign; has been arrested 60+ times for nonviolent protest, most recently for a March 20th, 2008 action calling for an end to funding war in Iraq.
In 1988 she was sentenced to one year in prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites.
Kelly served nine months of the sentence in Lexington KY maximum security prison.
Kelly, an author and a storyteller par-excellence, has been nominated as a candidate for the Noble Peace Prize.
Kathy Kelly at Bradley - Olin 168
Mon. April 7th; 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Eyewitness Stories of the ravages of war
Sponsored by: Muslim Student Association
Contact:
Rabia 339-2906; rzahid@mail.bradley.edu or Razia 868-4218; raziaha@gmail.com
Monday, March 24, 2008
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israeli gunman
palestinian in class at the check point
Israeli gunman
palestinian children
Musician!
My heart will go on
Urdu Bazaar, Lahore, Pakistan
LAHORE - March 24, 2006: No way-out to avoid a traffic jam near Urdu Bazaar. — Dawn
poor animal!
MULTAN - March 24, 2006: A camel performance at the spring festival organised by the City District Government to mark the Pakistan Day
beast of burden
LAHORE - March 20: BEAST OF BURDEN: A damaged vehicle being taken to a workshop.—APP
Communing with pigeons
KARACHI - March 20: A child enjoys the company of pigeons, whom he feeds, at Hyderi on Tuesday.—APP
Waiting for drinking water
HYDERABAD (India) - March 20: People stand in a line as they wait to fill containers with drinking water supplied by a mobile water vehicle in a slum area in the Saidabad colony here on Tuesday. More than 500 families living in this slum area depend on water supplied by a mobile vehicle and provided by the Metro water works once in three days. 'Coping with Water Scarcity' is the theme for the World Water Day 2007, which is celebrated each year on March 22.—AFP
Mud slide in Kashmir
BAGH - March 20: A man marooned in an area of Azad Kashmir affected by hill torrents following heavy downpour over the past few days is being rescued by local people on Tuesday.—AFP
Palestinians
BETHLEHEM - March 22: Palestinian students wear traditional clothing during a cultural event taking place at the Bethlehem University here on Thursday. The event, which included a mock wedding, is to promote the education of traditional ideals of Palestinian culture.�AFP
The World Water Day,
HYDERABAD - March 22: Peasant women make their way to a distant place in order to fetch water. The World Water Day, being observed on Friday, is intended to highlight the need for reducing wastage of this precious commodity. � Photo by Yousuf Nagori
