Kathy Kelly (born 1952) is an American peace activist, pacifist and author, one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness, and currently a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. As part of peace team work in several countries, she has traveled to Iraq twenty-six times, notably remaining in combat zones during the early days of both US–Iraq wars.
Her recent travel has focused on Afghanistan 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. She lives in Chicago.
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The esteemed Dan Yaseen is the host of the long-running anti-war radio show, Speaking Truth to Empire on 88.1 KFCF Free Speech Radio for Central California.
Dan was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and immigrated to the United States in 1974. He received MS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University. He has been an independent life and health insurance broker for over 40 years, specializing in Medicare.
Dan has always been interested in politics and history. He follows global issues and geopolitics. After the tragedy of 911, he decided silence was no longer an option and became an anti-war, anti-Empire activist.
He is a charter member of Peace Fresno, and was President from 2004-2005; he is currently Vice President – Membership. He is also on the board of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence.
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Thank you VT for this “Speaking Truth to Empire” radio interview of Kathy Kelly. I had the privilege of being arrested with Kathy at a protest against the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, GA where Latino soldiers are trained in counterintelligence and torture against anyone their current elites deemed “the enemy”. Even more disturbing is the subtle and not so subtle material and mental corruption of the trainees leading them to believe that American consumer “democracy” and its corporate ties to their nation’s elites (read resource extraction) is far superior to their own local, traditional, and native values. I witnessed Kathy being roughed up by young Army rangers (told I’m sure that she was a terrorist) for “trespassing” at Ft. Benning by sitting in meditation and prayer. I believe she served at least 6 months or a year in federal prison for her witness. She is a true American hero and an example that those on the left can be true patriots as well. Of course there are now many SOA training schools in many parts of the world. I’m sure a new one is being cranked up again in Brazil with the election of its now fascist president.
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