Kathy Kelly
| Kathy Kelly link (Author, pacifist) | |
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| Born | 1952 |
| Alma mater | Loyola University Chicago |
US pacifist | |
Kathy Kelly is an American peace activist, pacifist and author, one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness, and, until the campaign closed in 2020, a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. As part of peace team work in several countries, she has travelled to Iraq twenty-six times, notably remaining in combat zones during the early days of both US–Iraq wars.
Background
Kathy Kelly 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. During these years she remembers being deeply moved by Alain Resnais' Holocaust documentary "Night and Fog", by a lecture by Vietnam War activist Tom Cornell, and by the activist scripture writings of William Stringfellow.
Activities
From 2009 to 2019, her activism and writing focused on Afghanistan, Yemen, and Gaza, along with domestic protests against US drone policy. 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.[1]
Publications
- Kelly, Kathy (2025) Pope Francis’s Legacy of Love and Peace
- Kelly, Kathy (2005). Other Lands Have Dreams: from Baghdad to Pekin Prison. Counterpunch Press. ISBN 1-904859-28-3.
- Kelly, Kathy. "Raising Voices: The Children of Iraq, 1990–1999" in Arnove, Anthony (ed.) (2000). Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War, South End Press.
- "Writings by Kathy Kelly". Voices for Creative Non-Violence (category search).
- Bhatia, Bela; Drèze, Jean; Kelly, Kathy, eds. (2001). War and peace in the Gulf: testimonies of the Gulf Peace Team. Spokesman Books.
- Kelly, Kathy. "Searching for the truth in Jenin" in Nancy Stohlman, Nancy; Aladin, Laurieann eds. (2003). Live from Palestine South End Press. pp. 137–141.
- Kelly, Kathy (June 2, 2006). Right Livelihood. Common Dreams.
- Kelly, Kathy (May 20, 2006). Eve of Departure. Common Dreams.
- Kelly, Kathy (May 28, 2006). Enduring Memories. Common Dreams.
- Kelly, Kathy. "Foreword" in Smith-Ferri, David (2011). With Children Like Your Own: Iraq and Afghanistan Poems, 2008–2011. Haleys. ISBN 978-1-884540-28-8
- Contributor to Guttman, Marc (ed.) "Why Peace" 2012. ISBN 978-0984980208
- Contributor to Vincent, Rachel (ed.) "When We Are Bold: Women Who Turn Our Upsidedown World Right", Art and Literature Mapalé Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-0994944160
- Contributor to Amidon, John, Aumand, Maureen, Breyman, Steve(eds.) "Bending the Arc", SUNY Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1438478746
References
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