<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><center style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" id="backgroundTable" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: 100% !important; width: 100% !important; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templatePreheader" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="preheaderContent" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px; text-align: left;">Something Ended Jan. 1, but Not the Afghanistan War</div></td><td valign="top" width="190" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px; text-align: left;">Is this email not displaying correctly?<br><a href="http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=4328b212ac&e=68bdb3121a" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">View it in your browser</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templateContainer" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templateHeader" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-width: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td class="headerContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Arial; font-size: 34px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 34px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=c9290e7705&e=68bdb3121a" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340/images/VoicesForCreativeNonviolence.3.png" alt="Voices for Creative Nonviolence" border="0" width="600px" height="111" id="headerImage campaign-icon" style="border: 0px; height: 111px; line-height: 34px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 600px;"></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templateBody"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" class="bodyContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><table border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><strong><font face="arial black,sans-serif">KATHY KELLY IS FREE AWAITING A PHONE CALL FROM HER PROBATION OFFICER INDICATING WHERE SHE IS TO REPORT ON JANUARY 23. MAILING ADDRESS INFORMATION WILL BE POSTED TO THIS LIST AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY.</font></strong></span><br><br><br><br><br><strong><font face="arial black,sans-serif"><font size="4"><img align="none" height="264" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340/images/37782319-a9f1-4500-ac7c-61145de21ac0.jpg" width="396" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 22px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; display: inline; margin: 0px;"><br><br>Terrorism "Insurance" Expires<br><font><font face="garamond,serif">by Buddy Bell<br>January 1, 2015</font></font></font></font></strong></div><p>In 2002, at a time when insurance providers were unwilling to provide coverage for losses resulting from acts of terrorism, and when construction and utility companies were stalling in their development projects, Congress passed the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA). They decided to socialize some of the financial risk, giving a federal government guarantee on insurance payouts exceeding 100 million dollars.</p><p>Over the next 12 years, Presidents Bush and Obama and six different Congresses made countless decisions to increase the risk of terrorism (and of a bailout under TRIA). Of course, the most brutally profound effects of those decisions were imposed on children, women, and men in other parts of the world. Likely the least affected people were the ones complaining in the business sections of major papers last month...<br><br>...In the span of the past 12 years, the Afghanistan War did not end. The Iraq War was started, ended, and then started again. Torture became commonplace, with prisoners indefinitely held at Bagram, Guantánamo Bay, and a network of secret CIA prisons; some prisoners were rendered to third countries such as Egypt, Libya, and Syria to be tortured there. Israel, Egypt, and many other brutal regimes conducted wars of choice and campaigns of repression while making use of U.S. weaponry, vehicles, and diplomatic support. And then a systematic drone war attacked people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia; the ‘targets’ were chosen by Obama in consultation with the Pentagon or by secret algorithm...<br><br><a href="http://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=859e22a906&e=68bdb3121a" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Read More</a></p></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="130" class="leftColumnContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><table border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr mc:repeatable="repeat_1" mc:repeatindex="0" mc:hideable="hideable_repeat_1_1" mchideable="hideable_repeat_1_1"><td valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340/images/Bagram_and_Guantanamo.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 18px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 110px;"><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><br><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Upcoming Events</span><br><br><br><span style="font-size: 15px;">Witness Against Torture</span><br><a href="http://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=9f61c8af5d&e=68bdb3121a" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Jan 5-13</a><br><br><span style="font-size: 15px;">Chicago Action to Shut Down Guantanamo<br><a href="http://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=94b6abfcc1&e=68bdb3121a" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Jan 15</span></a><br><br>Shut Down Creech</span><br><a href="http://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=78959e061f&e=68bdb3121a" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">March 3-6</a><br><br><span style="font-size: 15px;">Sacred Peace Walk</span><br><a href="http://vcnv.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=50a16195a2&e=68bdb3121a" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">March 28 -<br>April 3</a></span></span></strong><br> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td valign="top" width="280" class="centerColumnContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><table border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr mc:repeatable="repeat_2" mc:repeatindex="0" mc:hideable="hideable_repeat_2_1" mchideable="hideable_repeat_2_1"><td valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340/images/483fe1e0-8a6e-4702-b80d-48fd9727420b.jpg" alt="" border="0" width="260" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 260px;"></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"><br><strong><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Street Kids Update</span></span></strong><br><br><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">by Maya Evans<br>Friday 26 December 2014</span></strong><br><br>...Next I interviewed Gul Jamma (literal translation: flower Friday). She doesn’t know her age but looks around 10. She partly caught my eye because of her already apparent stunning beauty, and then her shy smile, which lights up a quiet inner joy...<br><br>...She looks timidly at me as I beam the biggest smile I can muster...<br><br><a href="http://vcnv.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=dd5aa77eb7&e=68bdb3121a" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Read More</span></span></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td valign="top" width="130" class="rightColumnContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><table border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr mc:repeatable="repeat_3" mc:repeatindex="0" mc:hideable="hideable_repeat_3_1" mchideable="hideable_repeat_3_1"><td valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340/images/b2fab4c9-2f38-4c7c-88e4-0eec5167de2f.jpg" alt="" border="0" width="151" height="85" style="border: 0px; height: 85px; line-height: 18px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; display: inline; width: 151px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 110px;"><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><br><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">"What Went On Over the Last 13 Years Has Not Only Been a Defeat but also a Disgrace"</span></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Dec. 29, 2014<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></strong><br><br>Kathy Kelly, you were just in Afghanistan. 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