November 1999, The Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award for her extraordinary commitment to befriend the Iraqi people and bring to light their great suffering under the immoral UN/US economic sanctions. Kelly helped organize and participated in several nonviolent direct action teams in war zones outside Iraq: Bosnia in December 1992 and August 1993, and Haiti in the summer of 1994. 2004, Houston Peace and Justice Center National Peacemaker Award, Peace Seeker of the Year 2005, Montana Peace Seekers Network, Doctor of Theology honoris causa from Chicago Theological Seminary awarded. Kelly spent June 22 – July 9 in Athens, Greece, as a passenger (along with retired colonel Ann Wright, "The Color Purple" author Alice Walker, and retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern) on The Audacity of Hope, the US boat in Freedom Flotilla II, a campaign to sail to Gaza from international waters in defiance of the Israeli naval blockade. May 15, 2005, Elliott Black Award for 2006 awarded by the American Ethical Union, De Paul Center for Church/State Studies 2007 John Courtney Murray Award. Ferner, Mike (2006). Received Confirmaton Code? Her recent travel has focused on Afghanistan and Gaza, along with domestic protests against US drone policy. "Bridging Divides of a New Cold War", Consortium News June 17, 2016 Accessed June 25, 2017, Kelly, Kathy "Awaiting a Verdict on a Tiny Sliver of the Truth", International Fellowship of Reconciliation, "Birthday Greetings to a Three-Times Nobel Peace Prize Nominee", "Peace Activists Evacuated from Camp in Iraq", "Voices in Wilderness disbands; new group formed", "Witnessing Against Torture: Why We Must Act", Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars, "37 Protesters Arrested at Hancock Field", "U.S. Human Rights Activists Deported, Return to Tell The Truth About Bahrain Suppression of Dissent", "International peacemaker to speak in Tiffin Oct. 26", "Have Objection, Will Travel: Sconnies Travel Far to Protest NATO in Chicago", "Peace activists make overnight stop in Newton on way to protest U.S. drone use", "Local Anti-War Activists To March 160 Miles To Protest Drone Proliferation", "Kathy Kelly Arrested with Ten Others at Beale Air Force Base on Good Friday", "Living the Eucharist: Resisting The Destruction Of Jeju Island", "Kathy Kelly and Georgia Walker Arrested", http://www.wiscnews.com/juneaucountystartimes/news/local/article_2002ad45-c998-560c-afed-1e30167fb3b4.html, https://consortiumnews.com/2016/06/15/bridging-divides-of-a-new-cold-war/, https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/awaiting-verdict-tiny-sliver-truth, https://kpfa.org/episode/flashpoints-april-13-2017/, https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/18/dropping-the-non-nuclear-big-one/, "Concert Reviews: Cornerstone 2001 - Saturday - Day 5", "War Tax Resistance Speakers Bureau – Kathy Kelly", "Kathy Kelly to Receive 2015 Sacco & Vanzetti Award", "38th Gandhi Peace Award goes to Tom B. K. Goldtooth and Kathy Kelly 7 p.m. Friday Oct. 30, 2015, New Haven", Worse than an Earthquake: Peace Activist Kathy Kelly on the Destruction in Gaza, Peace Activist Kathy Kelly on the Secret US War in Pakistan, "Federal Prison Sentence Begins for Anti-Drone Activist: An interview with peace activist Kathy Kelly", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kathy_Kelly&oldid=976956281, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2018, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Masters in Religious Education, Chicago Theological Seminary; part of a consortium of schools which included the Jesuit School of Theology at Chicago where Kelly took courses each quarter, Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace Award. The war against the poor". Fidelity Agent. March 1999, California State Assembly Certificate of Recognition for Founding of Voices in the Wilderness. She lives in Chicago.
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. On April 22, 2011, Kelly was among 37 protesters arrested in Syracuse, New York, at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in a protest against drone warfare organized by the Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars.[25][26]. [5] She obtained her BA from Loyola University Chicago working a succession of night jobs to help cover tuition, including a stint on a meat-packing factory line which inspired her to become a lifelong vegetarian. [52], Voices for Creative Nonviolence, 2005–present. In 1990 she joined the Gulf Peace Team, a delegation assembled to protest the imminent Persian Gulf War and spent the first 14 days of the air war encamped on the Iraq-Saudi border before evacuation[12] to Baghdad and then Amman in Jordan where she helped coordinate relief work. All participants of the protest were acquitted in court the following June.[24].
2004, First Annual Award for Justice on behalf of the Religious Orders Partnership given to Kathy Kelly and Voices in the Wilderness, Cranbrook Peace Foundation Annual Peace Award.
In May and June 2009, Kelly traveled to Pakistan with a small VCNV delegation, including activist Gene Stoltzfus, that met with organizations and families in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Shah Mansour,[20] Tarbella,[21] and Lahore, reporting back with essays.
March 1999, University of the Incarnate Word Distinguished Speaker Award.
"When We Are Bold: Women Who Turn Our Upsidedown World Right", Art and Literature Mapalé Publishing, 2016.
When the air war gave way to a ground invasion, she and other activists were present to greet arriving US soldiers with dates and water.[11]. 1999, Dan Berrigan Award, DePaul University. I'm so very sorry.'".[50]. From 2012 through 2014 Kabul seamstresses were employed to eventually produce some 2,000 duvets the first winter and 3,000 the second, with a third season of the project now underway. [14], Between 1996 and 2003 Voices organized over seventy delegations to Iraq bringing food and medicine directly to Iraqi citizens in deliberate violation of both UN-imposed economic sanctions and US law. For information please contact: [email protected] Information about Kathy Kelly : [email protected] Information about live music: [email protected].
"Raising Voices: The Children of Iraq, 1990-1999" in Arnove, Anthony (ed.) As part of this trip Kelly and Brollier travelled in Afghanistan as guests of the EMERGENCY, visiting Panjshir and First Aid Posts on the outskirts of Panjshir, Kabul, and Bagram (site of the Bagram Air Force Base). In the 2008 presidential campaign season, a corresponding campaign targeted candidates' offices, and included "Witness Against War," a march from Chicago to the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. [6], After college in 1978, and while working on her MA in Religious Education (at Chicago Theological Seminary,) Kelly began volunteer work in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood (where she still resides), working at a local soup kitchen with a circle of activists, including future SOAW founder Roy Bourgeois, centered around Chicago's Francis of Assisi House, a homeless shelter in the Catholic Worker tradition.
Associates have commented in interviews on her heavy work and travel schedule, noting in one instance that "Jail is the only place she can rest". Participants refused to pay fines for these actions but instead solicited matching donations from supporters for supplies to distribute on repeat visits. She stood trial for trespassing in December 2014 and in late February 2015 began serving a three-month sentence at the "FMC Lexington" federal prison in Kentucky, her fourth stay in a US federal prison. They would return to Gujarat the following year. [8] Returning to the US, she left St. Ignatius in 1986 in order to focus on activism[9] including two years as a teacher in Uptown's Prologue High School serving marginalized low-income youth. Enter your new password and confirmation code below: Please enter the code above into the box below. Among numerous fasts and peace walks, Kelly has joined protests at several domestic USAF drone bases, incurring a June 2014 arrest with charges threatening a six-month prison sentence.
April 2007, Bradford-O'Neill Medallion for Social Justice Recipient, Dominican University. [13] In late 1995 Kelly and several other of these activists resolved to form Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the US/UN sanctions regime against Iraq.
The judge in the case had taken a 4-month recess to consider their claim to have entered the base in order to prevent a crime. [citation needed], Shortly after formation, VCNV began sending delegations, several involving Kelly, to interview Iraqi refugees in countries neighboring Iraq, especially Jordan. Damask, Joseph "Anti-drone, police violence protesters arrested at Volk,", Wright, Col. Ann (ret). Kelly, Kathy. She and Meyer divorced in 1994 although they have continued as friends.
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In visits over these years, Kelly also helped form the APV's women's community. They were arrested and charged with criminal trespass,[18][19] for which they were sentenced to "time served" in a January 2011 ruling.
Protests focused on threatened environmental and cultural damage, and also the undesirability for the region of an announced "Asia Pivot" in US military strategy.
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The ship attempted to sail for international waters but was intercepted by armed coast guard vessels and impounded. She spends much of her time touring the country on speaking engagements for schools, churches, festivals,[42] and activist groups from whom she accepts but does not require a stipend. Click here for the industry's #1 net sheet and closing costs application and access powerful information from the palm of your hand.
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[36][37], In August 2015 Kelly helped organize and joined a 90-mile walk through Wisconsin linking increasingly militarized, racially targeted police violence inside the US with ongoing US drone assassinations of high-risk civilians, their neighbors and families, in multiple Middle Eastern and North African countries.
November 1999, The Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award for her extraordinary commitment to befriend the Iraqi people and bring to light their great suffering under the immoral UN/US economic sanctions. Kelly helped organize and participated in several nonviolent direct action teams in war zones outside Iraq: Bosnia in December 1992 and August 1993, and Haiti in the summer of 1994. 2004, Houston Peace and Justice Center National Peacemaker Award, Peace Seeker of the Year 2005, Montana Peace Seekers Network, Doctor of Theology honoris causa from Chicago Theological Seminary awarded. Kelly spent June 22 – July 9 in Athens, Greece, as a passenger (along with retired colonel Ann Wright, "The Color Purple" author Alice Walker, and retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern) on The Audacity of Hope, the US boat in Freedom Flotilla II, a campaign to sail to Gaza from international waters in defiance of the Israeli naval blockade. May 15, 2005, Elliott Black Award for 2006 awarded by the American Ethical Union, De Paul Center for Church/State Studies 2007 John Courtney Murray Award. Ferner, Mike (2006). Received Confirmaton Code? Her recent travel has focused on Afghanistan and Gaza, along with domestic protests against US drone policy. "Bridging Divides of a New Cold War", Consortium News June 17, 2016 Accessed June 25, 2017, Kelly, Kathy "Awaiting a Verdict on a Tiny Sliver of the Truth", International Fellowship of Reconciliation, "Birthday Greetings to a Three-Times Nobel Peace Prize Nominee", "Peace Activists Evacuated from Camp in Iraq", "Voices in Wilderness disbands; new group formed", "Witnessing Against Torture: Why We Must Act", Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars, "37 Protesters Arrested at Hancock Field", "U.S. Human Rights Activists Deported, Return to Tell The Truth About Bahrain Suppression of Dissent", "International peacemaker to speak in Tiffin Oct. 26", "Have Objection, Will Travel: Sconnies Travel Far to Protest NATO in Chicago", "Peace activists make overnight stop in Newton on way to protest U.S. drone use", "Local Anti-War Activists To March 160 Miles To Protest Drone Proliferation", "Kathy Kelly Arrested with Ten Others at Beale Air Force Base on Good Friday", "Living the Eucharist: Resisting The Destruction Of Jeju Island", "Kathy Kelly and Georgia Walker Arrested", http://www.wiscnews.com/juneaucountystartimes/news/local/article_2002ad45-c998-560c-afed-1e30167fb3b4.html, https://consortiumnews.com/2016/06/15/bridging-divides-of-a-new-cold-war/, https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/awaiting-verdict-tiny-sliver-truth, https://kpfa.org/episode/flashpoints-april-13-2017/, https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/18/dropping-the-non-nuclear-big-one/, "Concert Reviews: Cornerstone 2001 - Saturday - Day 5", "War Tax Resistance Speakers Bureau – Kathy Kelly", "Kathy Kelly to Receive 2015 Sacco & Vanzetti Award", "38th Gandhi Peace Award goes to Tom B. K. Goldtooth and Kathy Kelly 7 p.m. Friday Oct. 30, 2015, New Haven", Worse than an Earthquake: Peace Activist Kathy Kelly on the Destruction in Gaza, Peace Activist Kathy Kelly on the Secret US War in Pakistan, "Federal Prison Sentence Begins for Anti-Drone Activist: An interview with peace activist Kathy Kelly", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kathy_Kelly&oldid=976956281, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2018, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Masters in Religious Education, Chicago Theological Seminary; part of a consortium of schools which included the Jesuit School of Theology at Chicago where Kelly took courses each quarter, Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace Award. The war against the poor". Fidelity Agent. March 1999, California State Assembly Certificate of Recognition for Founding of Voices in the Wilderness. She lives in Chicago.
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. On April 22, 2011, Kelly was among 37 protesters arrested in Syracuse, New York, at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in a protest against drone warfare organized by the Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars.[25][26]. [5] She obtained her BA from Loyola University Chicago working a succession of night jobs to help cover tuition, including a stint on a meat-packing factory line which inspired her to become a lifelong vegetarian. [52], Voices for Creative Nonviolence, 2005–present. In 1990 she joined the Gulf Peace Team, a delegation assembled to protest the imminent Persian Gulf War and spent the first 14 days of the air war encamped on the Iraq-Saudi border before evacuation[12] to Baghdad and then Amman in Jordan where she helped coordinate relief work. All participants of the protest were acquitted in court the following June.[24].
2004, First Annual Award for Justice on behalf of the Religious Orders Partnership given to Kathy Kelly and Voices in the Wilderness, Cranbrook Peace Foundation Annual Peace Award.
In May and June 2009, Kelly traveled to Pakistan with a small VCNV delegation, including activist Gene Stoltzfus, that met with organizations and families in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Shah Mansour,[20] Tarbella,[21] and Lahore, reporting back with essays.
March 1999, University of the Incarnate Word Distinguished Speaker Award.
"When We Are Bold: Women Who Turn Our Upsidedown World Right", Art and Literature Mapalé Publishing, 2016.
When the air war gave way to a ground invasion, she and other activists were present to greet arriving US soldiers with dates and water.[11]. 1999, Dan Berrigan Award, DePaul University. I'm so very sorry.'".[50]. From 2012 through 2014 Kabul seamstresses were employed to eventually produce some 2,000 duvets the first winter and 3,000 the second, with a third season of the project now underway. [14], Between 1996 and 2003 Voices organized over seventy delegations to Iraq bringing food and medicine directly to Iraqi citizens in deliberate violation of both UN-imposed economic sanctions and US law. For information please contact: [email protected] Information about Kathy Kelly : [email protected] Information about live music: [email protected].
"Raising Voices: The Children of Iraq, 1990-1999" in Arnove, Anthony (ed.) As part of this trip Kelly and Brollier travelled in Afghanistan as guests of the EMERGENCY, visiting Panjshir and First Aid Posts on the outskirts of Panjshir, Kabul, and Bagram (site of the Bagram Air Force Base). In the 2008 presidential campaign season, a corresponding campaign targeted candidates' offices, and included "Witness Against War," a march from Chicago to the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. [6], After college in 1978, and while working on her MA in Religious Education (at Chicago Theological Seminary,) Kelly began volunteer work in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood (where she still resides), working at a local soup kitchen with a circle of activists, including future SOAW founder Roy Bourgeois, centered around Chicago's Francis of Assisi House, a homeless shelter in the Catholic Worker tradition.
Associates have commented in interviews on her heavy work and travel schedule, noting in one instance that "Jail is the only place she can rest". Participants refused to pay fines for these actions but instead solicited matching donations from supporters for supplies to distribute on repeat visits. She stood trial for trespassing in December 2014 and in late February 2015 began serving a three-month sentence at the "FMC Lexington" federal prison in Kentucky, her fourth stay in a US federal prison. They would return to Gujarat the following year. [8] Returning to the US, she left St. Ignatius in 1986 in order to focus on activism[9] including two years as a teacher in Uptown's Prologue High School serving marginalized low-income youth. Enter your new password and confirmation code below: Please enter the code above into the box below. Among numerous fasts and peace walks, Kelly has joined protests at several domestic USAF drone bases, incurring a June 2014 arrest with charges threatening a six-month prison sentence.
April 2007, Bradford-O'Neill Medallion for Social Justice Recipient, Dominican University. [13] In late 1995 Kelly and several other of these activists resolved to form Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the US/UN sanctions regime against Iraq.
The judge in the case had taken a 4-month recess to consider their claim to have entered the base in order to prevent a crime. [citation needed], Shortly after formation, VCNV began sending delegations, several involving Kelly, to interview Iraqi refugees in countries neighboring Iraq, especially Jordan. Damask, Joseph "Anti-drone, police violence protesters arrested at Volk,", Wright, Col. Ann (ret). Kelly, Kathy. She and Meyer divorced in 1994 although they have continued as friends.
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In visits over these years, Kelly also helped form the APV's women's community. They were arrested and charged with criminal trespass,[18][19] for which they were sentenced to "time served" in a January 2011 ruling.
Protests focused on threatened environmental and cultural damage, and also the undesirability for the region of an announced "Asia Pivot" in US military strategy.
Join Facebook to connect with Kathy Kelly and others you may know.
The ship attempted to sail for international waters but was intercepted by armed coast guard vessels and impounded. She spends much of her time touring the country on speaking engagements for schools, churches, festivals,[42] and activist groups from whom she accepts but does not require a stipend. Click here for the industry's #1 net sheet and closing costs application and access powerful information from the palm of your hand.
Click here to access the powerful services of Fidelity Passport brought to you exclusively by Fidelity National Title. 1999, Arab American Anti Discrimination Committee Humanitarian Award.
[36][37], In August 2015 Kelly helped organize and joined a 90-mile walk through Wisconsin linking increasingly militarized, racially targeted police violence inside the US with ongoing US drone assassinations of high-risk civilians, their neighbors and families, in multiple Middle Eastern and North African countries.
But nothing can prepare me or anyone else for what we could possibly say to the children who will suffer in the days and nights ahead. September 2007, The Oscar Romero Award presented by Pax Christi Maine.
Voices in the Wilderness was fined $20,000 by the US Treasury in 2003, which it refused to pay;[15] it was "charged with exporting unspecified goods or services, which a spokesman said was related to delivering medicines to Iraq several years ago. In December 2010, Kelly and six other Voices activists met with Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers in Kabul to assist them in a brief activist campaign; the Afghan youth issued a "People's December Review" to counter President Barack Obama's December Review of the Afghan war, they began hosting monthly international call-in days using the Skype internet phone service, and they conducted interviews, not only with NGO aid workers involved in the Oxfam America-authored "Nowhere to Turn" report, but with US Professor Noam Chomsky (via a Skype connection), and (separately) with current and former Afghan parliamentarians Ramazan Bashardost and Malalai Joya. [17], With Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Kelly has carried on extensive activism outside of Iraq, most recently focusing on solidarity work in Kabul alongside a community of Afghan peace activists, support for the protest movement against naval base construction on South Korea's Jeju Island, and multiple visits to Gaza, where Kelly waited out Israel's 2009 "Cast Lead" operation in a region along Gaza's border with Egypt sustaining heavy bombardment.
November 1999, The Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award for her extraordinary commitment to befriend the Iraqi people and bring to light their great suffering under the immoral UN/US economic sanctions. Kelly helped organize and participated in several nonviolent direct action teams in war zones outside Iraq: Bosnia in December 1992 and August 1993, and Haiti in the summer of 1994. 2004, Houston Peace and Justice Center National Peacemaker Award, Peace Seeker of the Year 2005, Montana Peace Seekers Network, Doctor of Theology honoris causa from Chicago Theological Seminary awarded. Kelly spent June 22 – July 9 in Athens, Greece, as a passenger (along with retired colonel Ann Wright, "The Color Purple" author Alice Walker, and retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern) on The Audacity of Hope, the US boat in Freedom Flotilla II, a campaign to sail to Gaza from international waters in defiance of the Israeli naval blockade. May 15, 2005, Elliott Black Award for 2006 awarded by the American Ethical Union, De Paul Center for Church/State Studies 2007 John Courtney Murray Award. Ferner, Mike (2006). Received Confirmaton Code? Her recent travel has focused on Afghanistan and Gaza, along with domestic protests against US drone policy. "Bridging Divides of a New Cold War", Consortium News June 17, 2016 Accessed June 25, 2017, Kelly, Kathy "Awaiting a Verdict on a Tiny Sliver of the Truth", International Fellowship of Reconciliation, "Birthday Greetings to a Three-Times Nobel Peace Prize Nominee", "Peace Activists Evacuated from Camp in Iraq", "Voices in Wilderness disbands; new group formed", "Witnessing Against Torture: Why We Must Act", Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars, "37 Protesters Arrested at Hancock Field", "U.S. Human Rights Activists Deported, Return to Tell The Truth About Bahrain Suppression of Dissent", "International peacemaker to speak in Tiffin Oct. 26", "Have Objection, Will Travel: Sconnies Travel Far to Protest NATO in Chicago", "Peace activists make overnight stop in Newton on way to protest U.S. drone use", "Local Anti-War Activists To March 160 Miles To Protest Drone Proliferation", "Kathy Kelly Arrested with Ten Others at Beale Air Force Base on Good Friday", "Living the Eucharist: Resisting The Destruction Of Jeju Island", "Kathy Kelly and Georgia Walker Arrested", http://www.wiscnews.com/juneaucountystartimes/news/local/article_2002ad45-c998-560c-afed-1e30167fb3b4.html, https://consortiumnews.com/2016/06/15/bridging-divides-of-a-new-cold-war/, https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/awaiting-verdict-tiny-sliver-truth, https://kpfa.org/episode/flashpoints-april-13-2017/, https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/18/dropping-the-non-nuclear-big-one/, "Concert Reviews: Cornerstone 2001 - Saturday - Day 5", "War Tax Resistance Speakers Bureau – Kathy Kelly", "Kathy Kelly to Receive 2015 Sacco & Vanzetti Award", "38th Gandhi Peace Award goes to Tom B. K. Goldtooth and Kathy Kelly 7 p.m. Friday Oct. 30, 2015, New Haven", Worse than an Earthquake: Peace Activist Kathy Kelly on the Destruction in Gaza, Peace Activist Kathy Kelly on the Secret US War in Pakistan, "Federal Prison Sentence Begins for Anti-Drone Activist: An interview with peace activist Kathy Kelly", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kathy_Kelly&oldid=976956281, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2018, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Masters in Religious Education, Chicago Theological Seminary; part of a consortium of schools which included the Jesuit School of Theology at Chicago where Kelly took courses each quarter, Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace Award. The war against the poor". Fidelity Agent. March 1999, California State Assembly Certificate of Recognition for Founding of Voices in the Wilderness. She lives in Chicago.
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. On April 22, 2011, Kelly was among 37 protesters arrested in Syracuse, New York, at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in a protest against drone warfare organized by the Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars.[25][26]. [5] She obtained her BA from Loyola University Chicago working a succession of night jobs to help cover tuition, including a stint on a meat-packing factory line which inspired her to become a lifelong vegetarian. [52], Voices for Creative Nonviolence, 2005–present. In 1990 she joined the Gulf Peace Team, a delegation assembled to protest the imminent Persian Gulf War and spent the first 14 days of the air war encamped on the Iraq-Saudi border before evacuation[12] to Baghdad and then Amman in Jordan where she helped coordinate relief work. All participants of the protest were acquitted in court the following June.[24].
2004, First Annual Award for Justice on behalf of the Religious Orders Partnership given to Kathy Kelly and Voices in the Wilderness, Cranbrook Peace Foundation Annual Peace Award.
In May and June 2009, Kelly traveled to Pakistan with a small VCNV delegation, including activist Gene Stoltzfus, that met with organizations and families in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Shah Mansour,[20] Tarbella,[21] and Lahore, reporting back with essays.
March 1999, University of the Incarnate Word Distinguished Speaker Award.
"When We Are Bold: Women Who Turn Our Upsidedown World Right", Art and Literature Mapalé Publishing, 2016.
When the air war gave way to a ground invasion, she and other activists were present to greet arriving US soldiers with dates and water.[11]. 1999, Dan Berrigan Award, DePaul University. I'm so very sorry.'".[50]. From 2012 through 2014 Kabul seamstresses were employed to eventually produce some 2,000 duvets the first winter and 3,000 the second, with a third season of the project now underway. [14], Between 1996 and 2003 Voices organized over seventy delegations to Iraq bringing food and medicine directly to Iraqi citizens in deliberate violation of both UN-imposed economic sanctions and US law. For information please contact: [email protected] Information about Kathy Kelly : [email protected] Information about live music: [email protected].
"Raising Voices: The Children of Iraq, 1990-1999" in Arnove, Anthony (ed.) As part of this trip Kelly and Brollier travelled in Afghanistan as guests of the EMERGENCY, visiting Panjshir and First Aid Posts on the outskirts of Panjshir, Kabul, and Bagram (site of the Bagram Air Force Base). In the 2008 presidential campaign season, a corresponding campaign targeted candidates' offices, and included "Witness Against War," a march from Chicago to the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. [6], After college in 1978, and while working on her MA in Religious Education (at Chicago Theological Seminary,) Kelly began volunteer work in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood (where she still resides), working at a local soup kitchen with a circle of activists, including future SOAW founder Roy Bourgeois, centered around Chicago's Francis of Assisi House, a homeless shelter in the Catholic Worker tradition.
Associates have commented in interviews on her heavy work and travel schedule, noting in one instance that "Jail is the only place she can rest". Participants refused to pay fines for these actions but instead solicited matching donations from supporters for supplies to distribute on repeat visits. She stood trial for trespassing in December 2014 and in late February 2015 began serving a three-month sentence at the "FMC Lexington" federal prison in Kentucky, her fourth stay in a US federal prison. They would return to Gujarat the following year. [8] Returning to the US, she left St. Ignatius in 1986 in order to focus on activism[9] including two years as a teacher in Uptown's Prologue High School serving marginalized low-income youth. Enter your new password and confirmation code below: Please enter the code above into the box below. Among numerous fasts and peace walks, Kelly has joined protests at several domestic USAF drone bases, incurring a June 2014 arrest with charges threatening a six-month prison sentence.
April 2007, Bradford-O'Neill Medallion for Social Justice Recipient, Dominican University. [13] In late 1995 Kelly and several other of these activists resolved to form Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the US/UN sanctions regime against Iraq.
The judge in the case had taken a 4-month recess to consider their claim to have entered the base in order to prevent a crime. [citation needed], Shortly after formation, VCNV began sending delegations, several involving Kelly, to interview Iraqi refugees in countries neighboring Iraq, especially Jordan. Damask, Joseph "Anti-drone, police violence protesters arrested at Volk,", Wright, Col. Ann (ret). Kelly, Kathy. She and Meyer divorced in 1994 although they have continued as friends.
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View the profiles of people named Kathy Kelly.
In visits over these years, Kelly also helped form the APV's women's community. They were arrested and charged with criminal trespass,[18][19] for which they were sentenced to "time served" in a January 2011 ruling.
Protests focused on threatened environmental and cultural damage, and also the undesirability for the region of an announced "Asia Pivot" in US military strategy.
Join Facebook to connect with Kathy Kelly and others you may know.
The ship attempted to sail for international waters but was intercepted by armed coast guard vessels and impounded. She spends much of her time touring the country on speaking engagements for schools, churches, festivals,[42] and activist groups from whom she accepts but does not require a stipend. Click here for the industry's #1 net sheet and closing costs application and access powerful information from the palm of your hand.
Click here to access the powerful services of Fidelity Passport brought to you exclusively by Fidelity National Title. 1999, Arab American Anti Discrimination Committee Humanitarian Award.
[36][37], In August 2015 Kelly helped organize and joined a 90-mile walk through Wisconsin linking increasingly militarized, racially targeted police violence inside the US with ongoing US drone assassinations of high-risk civilians, their neighbors and families, in multiple Middle Eastern and North African countries.
