Prophetic Voice/Public Witness: Searching for a Non-Violent Approach

Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, drew on three 2010 trips to Afghanistan and one to Pakistan to describe wounded boys she met in a Kabul surgical ward, the economics of U.S. supply convoys, child mortality and teacher pay, and the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers in Bamiyan. She closed by singing "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye." Claire of the Channing-Murray Foundation introduced her. The lengthy Q&A covered the draft, social media and Egypt, police brutality against African American men, veterans' trauma, and antiwar organizing under the Obama administration. About 90 attended.