Report From The Af/Pak War by Kathy Kelly

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Friday June 05, 2009 06:51 by Ciaron - Catholic Worker/Ploughshares Report form Pakistan

Kathy Kelly is longtime U.S. nonviolent activist and anti-war resister. She has served prison sentences for nonviolent resistance to U.S. nuclear and interventionary war preparations. She was in the peace camp on the Iraq/Saudi border druing Gulf War 1, she initiated the sanctions busting "Voices in the Wilderness" movement in the mid-90's, was on the ground in Baghdad during the "Shock and Awe" bombardment of '03. She came to Dublin in '05 and '06 to testify at the 3 Pitstop Plougshshares trials and was recently arrested at the Nevada U.S. Air Force base where the U.S. drones have their firing mechanism pressed. She is presently in Pakistan......

Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative
Nonviolence http://vcnv.org/ , she is visiting cities and villages in
Pakistan.

Kathy Kelly | To Counter Terror, Build Justice
: "Shortly after arriving in Pakistan, one week
ago, we met a weaver and his extended family, numbering 76 in all, who
had been forcibly displaced from their homes in Fathepur, a small
village in the Swat Valley. Fighting between the Pakistani military
and the Taliban had intensified. Terrified by aerial bombing and
anxious to leave before a curfew would make flight impossible, the
family packed all the belongings they could carry and fled on foot. It
was a harrowing four-day journey over snow-covered hills."
continued on this link.........
http://www.truthout.org/060209A