 Anyway, it's my honor now to introduce Kathy Kelly, who I've known for many years. She's a peace activist whose efforts have sometimes led to her living in war zones. Are we got Kathy there somewhere. Okay. Anyway, oh there she is hi Kathy. War zones and prisons, believing where you stand determines what you see. Kathy and her companions have lived in war zones, alongside ordinary people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza, Lebanon, Bosnia, and Nicaragua. During the Cold War, she was arrested dozens of times for resisting US intervention in Central America was sentenced to one year in prison for nuclear disarmament action. She planted corn on a nuclear missile south site and became a lifelong war tax I was with Kathy one year at the Fort Benning at the School of America's protest, and Kathy went through the fence down to Fort Benning. And I remember, and Kathy's not a big person. And they roughed her up really bad with the soldiers, please rough for program Kathy asked them why are you, why are you doing this to me I'm not resisting. And then she went to jail but when Kathy goes to jail, she organizes. So anyway, I love you Kathy it's my honor to introduce Kathy Kelly everybody. Hello and thank you. Thank you for that introduction thank you to everybody who has participated what a important crucial time it is to be receivers of this education and of course to be active. You know, Frank had written and said please say something about Yemen and so I want to start by saying that I was very surprised to see that the Saudi kingdom, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia has hired consulting companies, well beyond Washington DC and New York, and places like Maine, and North Carolina, Des Moines, Iowa, and their strategy is to improve the image of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has gone on Saudi TV to say that the long hideous war in Yemen is actually in their favor. They want to improve his image amongst people whom they're pretty sure really never heard of Yemen in the first place, and who wouldn't really be troubled by the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Well, I think that's a signal to us of how important the work you're doing today is to be able to go out to the heartland and make sure people do know where Yemen is and what's happening in Yemen. And to people in Yemen are no threat whatsoever to people in the United States. Earlier, Daniel Ellsberg had talked about how the annual subsidization of aerospace industry goes on in the United States and greatly benefits companies like Raytheon he mentioned that Raytheon now will have the contract to install nuclear weapons underground intercontinental ballistic nuclear weapons and these will bring enormous enormous rewards financially to the Raytheon Corporation and other subsidiary groups, and Ellsberg just kind of begged people don't let this happen we should be organizing regionally to try and prevent it. And, as Frank mentioned, I will my first lengthy imprisonment will not likely compare to the hideous long sentences that are handed out to so many people but I did spend a year in prison for planting corn on top of nuclear missile silo sites. And I think it is crucial for us to resist this ground based defense deterrent strategy that is completely dependent on people believing that we should be afraid of Russia we should be afraid of China we have to enter into a new Cold War. And of course, what we actually so much need when the greatest terror we all face is the threat of what we're doing to our own environment. What we need is an enhanced capacity to cooperate to collaborate with Russia and with China to be learning their languages to be better understanding cultures to see what kinds of problems they mainly face to see how scientifically, we can join our resources and our communities and particularly not only facing climate catastrophe but also a time of pandemic and with rising numbers of people fleeing from the various wars that we've started so. And there's a, a tale that I think points us in a such a different direction I want to speak briefly about people in a village in Yemen called. And these were people who were poor, rural farmers, herders, and they were in great troubles because they were running out of water, their flux were thirsting to death, and they couldn't irrigate their crops and so they did something that was risky and they were so very needed, or they all might not survive. They pulled their resources, and they collectively hired a rig so that they could dig and dig down deeper into the earth and hope to hit water. They weren't successful at first and it got to be very very agonizing they thought well we've you know given money we didn't have our borrowed money now we're going to find out that this was a wasted project or maybe we've been in an unfair group anyway, one night finally they hit water, and it was like eureka they had a wonderful celebration people danced and they sang into the wee hours of the morning. And as they were sort of heading back to their homes. And I heard that the Saudis were in the habit of bombing wells in Yemen. But they thought well we're so removed from any places, strategic or crucial nobody's going to waste a bomb on us but they were wrong. Coming from Arizona, a Raytheon manufactured bomb was dropped by a Saudi pilot a dangled in the air on a fuse and then when that fuses cut three thin sprout out the bomb comes to life and that bomb hurdle down to exactly where those people were celebrating having collectively found water had been heading back home and immediately when the bombs nose count hits the ground. Then that releases two tons of explosives the shards of the bomb travel eight times the speed of light. If such a shard were to hit your body you could be disemboweled you could be decapitated. Your limbs could be cut off from your torso. And this is what happened to the revelers who are celebrating having hit water. Jeffrey Stern us with people. What he did what the bomb had done to them he spoke with a particular man who took his hand and put his hand on his cheek. And Jeffrey Stern felt the presence of metal and the man's cheekbone in his forehead. And he said it was an amazing thing to travel from Arizona to point us collectively toward working constantly to put an end to war to wean ourselves out of the military industrial Congressional complex, and to find ways to deal with the real terrorists we face the terror of what we're doing to our own environment. Thank you. Thank you Kathy so much. Okay, we're someone's freezing sometimes.