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Through maps, photos and three-minute videos, Kathy Kelly considers some of the reasons why the U.S. government plans to continue military presence in Afghanistan until 2024 and beyond. She also talks about responsible nonviolent resistance to U.S. warfare.
Drawing from recent experiences of living for a month at a time in Afghanistan, Kathy Kelly presents perspectives of Afghan Peace Volunteers on prospects for their future in relation to NATO and the U.S. 21st Century military.
During each of three recent trips to Afghanistan, Kelly, as an invited guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, has lived alongside ordinary Afghan people in a working class neighborhood in Kabul. She returned from her eighth visit to Afghanistan this August. Kelly and her companions at Voices for Creative Nonviolence have steadily researched consequences of drone attacks, night raids and aerial bombings in Afghanistan.
Kathy Kelly, 59, co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence, '(www.vcnv.org) a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare. From 1996-2003, Voices activists formed 70 delegations that openly defied economic sanctions by bringing medicines to children and families in Iraq. Kelly and her companions lived in Baghdad throughout the 2003 'Shock and Awe' bombing. In 2009 she lived in Gaza during the final days of the Operation Cast Lead bombing. She and her companions at the Voices home in Chicago believe that non-violence necessarily involves simplicity, service, sharing of resources and non-violent direct action in resistance to war and oppression. Kelly received a B.A. from Loyola University at Chicago (1974), and a Masters in Religious Education from the Chicago Theological Seminary. She has written, contributed and been published in more than 23 newspapers and websites. Additionally, she has received approximately 40 awards in areas of Free Speech, Peace, Social Justice, and War Resistance. Kelly has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace prize.
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