Kathy Kelly

Chicago, Salisbury

Writer at CounterPunch

Writer at TRANSCEND

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Articles

The Prisons of Gaza and Home: Fast for Gaza, Day 14

3 weeks ago | counterpunch.org | Kathy Kelly

Here at the United Nations in New York City, the Security Council is expected to vote on a resolution calling on all parties to respect an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The slaughter in Gaza entraps and attacks the helpless, turning shelters into mass graves, erasing entire families, weaponizing nutrition and famine. The spiraling violence shrieks for our attention, screams for effective protection.
TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE

3 weeks ago | transcend.org | Kathy Kelly

Kathy Kelly | Bar Crawl Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service Since 22 May 2025, several peace activists have been fasting–for 40 days–in front of the United States Mission to the UN. They demand an end to US support of Israel’s military and urge the US government to pressure Israel to open the Gazan borders to humanitarian aid. For this BCR series I will meet with a participant, Kathy Kelly, periodically, to share her thoughts and concerns.
The Prisons of Gaza and Home - Fast for Gaza, Day 14

1 month ago | codepink.org | Kathy Kelly

[Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]by Kathy KellyHere at the United Nations in New York City, the Security Council is expected to vote on a resolution calling on all parties to respect an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The slaughter in Gaza entraps and attacks the helpless, turning shelters into mass graves, erasing entire families, weaponizing nutrition and famine. The spiraling violence shrieks for our attention, screams for effective protection.
We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords

1 month ago | counterpunch.org | Kathy Kelly

“We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones bombed on May 2, 2025, almost certainly launched by Israel. Cassandra had traveled to Malta after spending six weeks in Masafer Yatta, the West Bank region where, for two months, she lived among villagers whom local Israeli settlers constantly persecuted.
We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords

1 month ago | original.antiwar.com | Kathy Kelly

“We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones bombed on May 2, 2025, almost certainly launched by Israel. Cassandra had traveled to Malta after spending six weeks in Masafer Yatta, the West Bank region where, for two months, she lived among villagers whom local Israeli settlers constantly persecuted.
We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords

1 month ago | f.mtr.cool | Kathy Kelly

“We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones bombed on May 2, 2025, almost certainly launched by Israel. Cassandra had traveled to Malta after spending six weeks in Masafer Yatta, the West Bank region where, for two months, she lived among villagers whom local Israeli settlers constantly persecuted.
We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords

1 month ago | znetwork.org | Kathy Kelly

“We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones bombed on May 2, 2025, almost certainly launched by Israel. Cassandra had traveled to Malta after spending six weeks in Masafer Yatta, the West Bank region where, for two months, she lived among villagers whom local Israeli settlers constantly persecuted.
Pope Francis’s Lesson of Love and Peace

2 months ago | counterpunch.org | Kathy Kelly

During the current war, beginning in 2023, Pope Francis developed a strong relationship with parishioners of the Church of the Holy Family in Gaza. By holding virtual gatherings with the hundreds of people sheltering in the church, he was able to stay in daily touch with the realities they faced under Israel’s siege and bombardment. On days when he learned that the bombing was particularly heavy, Pope Francis would call to check in on them as many as five times a day.
The Real Outrage in Yemen

2 months ago | dissidentvoice.org | Kathy Kelly

Members of the Fifteenth Street Meeting of Friends and the New York Catholic Worker gather for a weekly vigil against the bombing of Yemen in New York City on February 3, 2024Since March 15, the United States has launched strikes on more than forty locations across Yemen in an ongoing attack against members of the Houthi movement, which has carried out more than 100 attacks on shipping vessels linked to Israel and its allies since October 2023.
The Real Outrage in Yemen

2 months ago | counterpunch.org | Kathy Kelly

Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New Yorkers has assembled in Manhattan’s Union Square for “the Yemen vigil.” Their largest banner proclaims: “Yemen is Starving.” Other signs say: “Put a human face on war in Yemen,” and “Let Yemen Live.” Participants in the vigil decry the suffering in Yemen where one of every two children under the age of five is malnourished, “a statistic that is almost unparalleled across the...