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Toward Freedom
March 12, 2018
Here in Kabul, as the rising sun begins to warm our chilly rooms, I hear excited laughter from downstairs. Rosemary Morrow, a renowned Australian permaculture expert, has begun teaching thirty-five young students in a month-long course on low-resource farming. In war-torn Afghanistan, there's a desperate need toÃâà...
Allentown Morning Call
March 8, 2018
International peace activist Kathy Kelly addressing a rally. Kelly will be ... This is Kathy Kelly's workplace, haunted by drone strike and starvation, forced exodus and death. “It's insane ... Kelly has been to Afghanistan and Iraq dozens of times, seeing the privations of their endless wars up close. Also BosniaÃâà...
Albany Times Union (blog)
March 5, 2018
Kathy Kelly (kathy@vcnv.org) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org) While in Kabul, she is a guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers ... Kathy is a world renowned activist for peace and justice who has traveled to countries that the US is at war with , including Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sputnik International
March 1, 2018
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence who just ... Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called on the Taliban to begin peace talks, and he offered security and other incentives to those who participate.
Progressive.org
March 1, 2018
During breaks in the class, I tell some of the Afghan Peace Volunteer students about the school shootings in the United States, and the remarkable determination of teenagers from Florida to demand that lawmakers take action on gun control. These Afghan students have also heard about Black Lives MatterÃâà...
Sputnik International
February 28, 2018
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has offered a deal to the Taliban to begin peace talks at a time when “Kabul has become most dangerous place in Afghanistan,” a peace ... By offering to recognize the Taliban as a political group on Wednesday, the Afghan government can include it in formal peace talks.
Antiwar.com (blog)
December 22, 2017
Like the children of Iraq who perished by the hundreds of thousands during US led economic war against Iraq, these little ones in Yemen mean harm to no one. They've done nothing to deserve punishment. Yet, they will pay the price for abysmally failed policies. The food and clean water they hunger andÃâà...
Common Dreams
November 12, 2017
Now, members of the group Veterans for Peace are working across the U.S. to recover the original purpose of Armistice Day. They are using it to call for adequate psychological and material support for veterans, to help them cope with the terrors they have been forced to endure. Above all, they work toÃâà...
Progressive.org
June 7, 2017
When activists like me return from visiting the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul, Afghanistan, young seamstresses there often entrust each of us with about fifty sky-blue scarves. The word “Borderfree” is carefully embroidered, in English, on one end of each scarf; on the opposite side, they've stitched theÃâà...
Progressive.org
April 20, 2017
Three former United Nations officials with many decades of experience as diplomats recently wrote a blunt appraisal of the U.S. role in undermining peace efforts and promoting wars. The authors call out President Donald Trump for “embracing a toxic form of messianic nationalism,” with exclusionaryÃâà...
