Your agents and
stooges in GIYUS, and especially these little idiots from the U. of Northern
Virginia spamming me, and trying cyber attacks on this website, will not
succeed. Their IP's have been blocked and IT administrators informed.
Also the YouTube account of CSaction, where a lot of attacks and lies
and propaganda has been targeted, has also blocked these IPs from Reston,
Virginia, Verizon Global Networks and Bell Central accounts are blocked,
so get fucked.
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.
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 has been
nominated for 3 Nobel Peace Prizes:
Nobel
Peace Prize Nominee with Denis Halliday 2000
Nobel
Peace Prize Nominee 2001
Nobel
Peace prize Nominee, with Voices in the Wilderness 2003
Kathy Kelly, of Chicago, Illinois, 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 they've 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 who've 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.
Kathy did an interview on Democracy Now after
her return from Gaza. This is the 2 part series
Kathy speaks on the Kilare 5 that were arrested
in Ireland for destroying US military equipment headed to the ILLEGAL
war in Iraq
Kathy was
in Lebanon, during Israel's 34-day invasion of that country
in the summer of 2006. She relates her experiences on visiting the
village of Qana. It was the subject of a terror bombing by the Israeli
Defense Forces, on July 30, 2006, in which 56 civilians were
slaughtered, many of them children. Kelly spoke at the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County campus (UMBC).
Her talk
was sponsored by the Student Solidarity Committee, among other
progressive organizations.