Kathy Kelly, coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, talks about race, poverty and the social, political, and economic conditions that persist in African-American communities across the US.....Kathy Kelly is an American peace activist, pacifist, three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness. Voices in the Wilderness, founded in 1996, was the precursor of Voices for Creative Nonviolence a social justice, anti war NGO. She currently acts as the organization's coordinator. Kelly helped organize and participated in nonviolent direct action teams in Haiti, Bosnia and Iraq. In April of 2002, she was among the first internationals to visit the Jenin camp in the West Bank. 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. She lives in Chicago
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