Peace activist Kathy Kelly just back from Afghanistan will speak in MInneapolis 6/12-6/15

[annm4peace]

Kathy Kelly will be back in Minneapolis on Tuesday and will be giving several presentations around the state this coming week.

She will speak on two occasions in the Twin Cities, one on June 12, 7:00 pm, at St. Joan of Arc, 4537 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, and the other on Friday, June 15, 7:00 pm at the Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul.

Kathy just returned from another visit to Afghanistan last week and will be able to give us up-to-date news about the effects of the continuing U.S. war on the people of Afghanistan and the growing opposition to the war.

1. AFGHANISTAN; THE COST OF PERPETUAL WAR

Speaker: KATHY KELLY

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 , 7:00 pm
St. Joan of Arc Church
4537 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis

2. UPDATE ON THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

Speaker: KATHY KELLY

Friday, June 15, 2012, 7:00 pm
Carondelet Center
1890 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul

Kathy Kelly has visited Afghanistan six times since May of 2010. In her latest visits, she lived with members of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers in Kabul, learning from them about the impacts of the war and their efforts to join with youth from around their country in building a peace movement in their country.

In her June 12 talk, she will describe life in Afghanistan today, the growing peace movement there, and the recently signed Strategic Partnership Agreement between the U.S. and the current Afghan government, which would keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan until 2024.

This is a very important time to keep building resistance to the war and occupation of Afghanistan as more and more political and military leaders are recognizing the folly of continuing this war. U.S. Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, in a report developed from interviews with 250 Afghans and U.S. service members in Afghanistan, recently wrote:

"Senior ranking U.S. military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the U.S. Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable." Davis asks how many more must die in support of a mission that's not succeeding. "When you're given a mission that cannot - cannot - succeed militarily, then what is the purpose of the mission?"

As you probably know, Kathy has received many awards over the past several years for her work against sanctions, war and occupation, and, on three separate occasions, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is also a superb storyteller.





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[sabrina 1]

1. Thank you very much for this OP. What a wonderful woman and how brave she is.

I would love to hear what she has to say. We get so little information about the actual people whose country we have so destroyed, for decades now.

[facetious_badger]

2. Nonsense

There's nothing brave about her. She's living in a fantasy world if she thinks all her platitudes would fly a foot outside of Kabul. The only heads the insurgency likes to saw off more than neutral aid workers are perceived collaborators and those of the 'wrong' sect. The majority of Afghans are good people, but that doesn't make the reach of the fundamentalist thugs any less pervasive or brutal. The only peace they want is the peace to be free to throw acid on girl's faces for learning to read, stone rape victims, and forcibly keep their countrymen living in the Stone Age. They won't allow anything less.