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Uploaded by on Feb 6, 2009

Kathy Kelly, Bill Quigley and Audrey Stewart went to Egypt, aiming to maintain a presence close to the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, near the city of Rafah. They linked up with other internationals there and hope to coordinate efforts with other activists who have assembled there.

Here is part two of Kathy at Colorado College speaking after her return.

BTW, the GIYUS stooges posting here will be blocked and their comments have been removed. The mossad and their stooges have plenty of room on YouTUbe for their lies and propaganda, and CSaction will not provide more. The students of the University of Northern Virginia that have been posting are wasting their time.

Voices in the Wilderness calls for:

1) an immediate end to Israels military offensive into Gaza;
2) the withdrawal of all of Israels military forces from Gaza;
3) the opening of all border crossings into and out of Gaza to allow for the immediate delivery of all necessary humanitarian and medical supplies, including medical personnel;
4) the suspension of all U.S. assistance to Israel until such time as Israel ends its military offensive against Gaza; and,
5) the immediate end to the use of violence against populations in Israel and in the Occupied Territories of Palestine.


Kathy Kelly, of Chicago, Ilinnois, founded Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the UN/US sanctions against Iraq,and for bringing medicine and toys to Iraq in open violation of the UN/US sanctions. She and other campaign members were notified of a proposed $163,000 penalty for the organization, threatened with 12 years in prison, and eventually fined $20,000, a sum which theyve refused to pay.

Voices in the Wilderness organized 70 delegations to visit Iraq in the period between 1996 and the beginning of the Operation Shock and Awe warfare (March 2003). Kelly has been to Iraq twenty four times since January 1996, when the campaign began.

In October 2002, Voices in the Wilderness declared their intent to remain in Baghdad, alongside Iraqi civilians, throughout a war they still hoped they could prevent. Kelly and the team stayed in Baghdad throughout the bombardment and invasion and maintained a household in Baghdad until March, 2004. During 2007, she spent five months in Amman, Jordan, living amongst Iraqis whove fled their homes and are seeking resettlement.

During the first two weeks of the Gulf War, she was part of a peace encampment on the Iraq-Saudi border called the Gulf Peace Team. Following evacuation to Amman, Jordan, (February 4, 1991), team members stayed in the region for the next six months to help coordinate medical relief convoys and study teams.

Kelly helped organize and participated in nonviolent direct action teams in Haiti (summer of 1994), Bosnia (August, 1993, December, 1992) and Iraq (Gulf Peace Team, 1991). In April of 2002, she was among the first internationals to visit the Jenin camp, where conventional military forces of the Israeli Defense Force had destroyed over 100 civilian homes, in the Occupied West Bank.

She and three companions from Voices were in Beirut, Lebanon during the final days of the Israel-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006 and subsequently reported from southern Lebanon following a ceasefire.

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.

In the spring of 2004, she served three months at Pekin federal prison for crossing the line as part of an ongoing effort to close an army military combat training school at Fort Benning, GA.


http://vitw.org/
http://vcnv.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Kelly
http://CSaction.org/

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  • The GIYUS stooges posting here will be blocked and their comments have been removed. The mossad and their stooges have plenty of room on YouTube for their lies and propaganda, and CSaction will not provide more. The students of the University of Northern Virginia who have been posting are wasting their time.

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