Kathy Kelly, U.S. Boat to Gaza Passenger

Passenger Kathy Kelly talks about why she is going aboard the US Boat to Gaza with the Stay Human Flotilla at the end of the month.

Bio: Kathy Kelly, 58, co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence, (www.vcnv.org) a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare. Since May of 2010, she traveled to Afghanistan four times, with delegations intent on learning more about conditions faced by ordinary people in Afghanistan, a country afflicted by three decades of warfare. Voices for Creative Nonviolence has been working closely with the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers in search of non-military solutions to end the war. In 2009, she lived in Gaza during the Operation Cast Lead bombing. She was also in Lebanon during and after the 2006 Israeli assaults on southern Lebanon.

From 1996 -- 2003, Voices activists formed 70 delegations that openly defied economic sanctions by bringing medicines to children and families in Iraq. Kathy and her companions lived in Baghdad throughout the 2003 "Shock and Awe" bombing. She was sentenced to one year in federal prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites (1988-89) and spent three months in prison, in 2004, for crossing the line at Fort Benning's military training school. She and her companions at the Voices home/office in Chicago believe that non-violence necessarily involves simplicity, service, sharing of resources and non-violent direct action in resistance to war and oppression.

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[MannyMahmud]

GOD BLEASS YOU AND ON BEHALF OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH.

[videobyredjade]

thank you Kathy!

jd

[pkpapers]

To Gaza with love. To Gaza with love, again. To Gaza with love, and again. To Gaza with love, and once again ...

[InSenseAround]

Bless you Kathy.

[TAMBY004]

I adore this woman

[adamflude]

CONGRATULATIONS & may God's blessings be with u all on this great humanitarian & AWARENESSING voyage in solidarity with th beleaguered people of Gaza

Gaza is STILL closed 2 most imports & virtually ALL EXPORTS & only a few people can leave or enter - thank u 4 helping 2 raise awareness of this at th same time as actually DOING something about it. Gaza IS, STILL, in CRISIS - we must ALL do a lot more 2 help

I wish only love & peace 2 all people in the region, including th Israeli oppressors.