<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Voices for Creative Nonviolence <<a href="mailto:info@vcnv.org" class="">info@vcnv.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">A Shift: Repudiating War on Yemen</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">December 19, 2018 at 7:02:10 PM CST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><<a href="mailto:galliher@uiuc.edu" class="">galliher@uiuc.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left; padding: 0px 18px 9px;"><div class="entry-content"><em class="">Kathy Kelly writes in preparation for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="">a two week liquids-only fast for Yemen<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>to begin Dec 29th in New York and move to Washington D.C. from January 6-13 in coordination with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="">Witness Against Torture</strong> Guantanamo protests. Those interested in joining the fast should contact Kathy Kelly at 773 619 2418 or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:kathy@vcnv.org" target="_blank" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">kathy@vcnv.org</a>. <br class=""><br class="">A version of this article first appeared on <a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=3462842ab1&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">The Progressive</a> website. </em><br class=""><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class=""><small class=""></small><small class=""><img data-file-id="3533" height="480" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340/images/a0a2d2b3-ee9f-4595-aac1-4d6060c28989.png" width="700" style="border: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; height: 480px; width: 700px; margin: 0px;" class=""><br class="">Photo: Houthi-allied tribesmen demonstrating in Yemen for peace talks - Hani Mohammed/AP</small></p><span style="font-size: 18px;" class=""><strong class="">A Shift: Repudiating War on Yemen</strong></span><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">by Kathy Kelly<br class="">December 19, 2018</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Twenty years ago, a small delegation organized by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=4b38b999e4&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Voices in the Wilderness</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>lived in Baghdad while U.S. cruise missiles attacked more than 100 targets in Iraq. Following four days of bombing, known as “Operation Desert Fox,” our group visited various Iraqis who had survived direct hits. One young girl handed me a large missile fragment, saying “Merry Christmas.”</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">An engineer,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=137090dbf6&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Gasim Risun</a>, cradled his two-week old baby as he sat in his hospital bed. Gasim had suffered multiple wounds, but he was the only one in his family well enough to care for the infant, after an unexploded missile destroyed his house. In Baghdad, a bomb demolished a former military defense headquarters, and the shock waves shattered the windows in the hospital next door. Doctors said the explosions terrified women in the maternity ward, causing some to spontaneously abort their babies while others went into premature labor.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">In December 1998, U.S. news media steadily focused on only one person living in Iraq: Saddam Hussein. With the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=54cb046e60&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">notable exception</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of Stephen Kinzer of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">The New York Times</em>, no mainstream media focused on U.N. reports about the consequences of U.S. economic sanctions imposed on Iraq. One of Kinzer’s articles was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=1b582075bd&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">headlined</a>: “Iraq a Pediatrician’s Hell: No Way to Stop the Dying.”</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">The hellish conditions continued, even as U.N. officials sounded the alarm and explained how economic sanctions directly contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children under age five.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Now a horror story of similar proportions is playing out in Yemen.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: center;" class="">---</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">In November 2018,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">The Guardian</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=6e9ba84b8a&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">reported</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that up to 85,000 Yemeni children under age five have died from starvation and disease during the last three years. Mainstream media and even governments of large and wealthy countries are finally beginning to acknowledge the anguish suffered by Yemeni children and their families.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Stark and compelling<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=75bcef359b&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">photos</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>show listless, skeletal children who are minutes or days away from death. Reports also show how war plans have deliberately targeted Yemen’s infrastructure, leading to horrifying disease and starvation. Journalists who have met with people targeted as Houthi fighters, many of them farmers and fishermen, describe how people can’t escape the sophisticated U.S. manufactured weapons fired at them from massive warplanes.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">One recent Associated Press photo, on page one of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">The New York Times</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for December 14, shows a line of tribespeople loyal to the Houthis. The youngest child is the only one not balancing a rifle upright on the ground in front of him. The tribespeople bear arms, but they are poorly equipped, especially compared to the U.S.-armed Saudis.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Since 2010, according to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">The</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">New York Times</em>, the United States has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=3004a2272d&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">sold</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the Saudis thirty F-15 multirole jet fighters, eighty-four combat helicopters, 110 air-to-surface cruise missiles, and 20,000 precision guided bombs. Last year, the United States also<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=8594a2a7db&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">sold</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the Saudis ten maritime helicopters in a <a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=ef001a215b&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">$1.9 billion deal</a>. An American defense contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, “earned tens of millions of dollars training the Saudi Navy during the past decade.”</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: center;" class="">---</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman—along with his counterpart in the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed—seemed untouchable. He was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=ecd4ea54ff&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">feted and regaled</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by former Presidents, Oprah, Hollywood show biz magnates, and constant media hype.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Now, the U.S. Senate has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=3bcf74ac33&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">passed a resolution</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>holding him accountable for the gruesome murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Several U.S. Senators have said they no longer want to be responsible for bloodshed he has caused in Yemen. U.N. negotiators have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=966b281db0&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">managed to broker</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a fragile ceasefire, now in effect, which will hopefully stop the fighting that has raged in the vital port city of Hodeidah. One message which may have prompted the Saudis to negotiate came in the form of a Senate vote<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=667b89677c&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">threatening</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to curtail the support of U.S. armed forces for the Saudi-led Coalition’s war on Yemen.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">I doubt these actions will bring solace or comfort to parents who cradle their listless and dying children. People on the brink of famine cannot wait days, weeks, or months while powerful groups slowly move through negotiations.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">And yet, a shift in public perception regarding war on Yemen could liberate others from the terrible spectre of early death.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Writing during another war, while he was exiled from Vietnam, Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=5e458597d7&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">imagined</a>the birth of a “Peace Child.” He ends his poem by calling on people to give both their hands for the chance to “protect the seeds of life bursting on the cradle’s rim.”</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class=""><img align="right" data-file-id="3529" height="386" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340/images/6a5eb14d-8b35-4ad7-9176-3cf09a0eb807.png" width="250" style="border: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; height: 386px; width: 250px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;" class="">I think of Iraqi mothers who lost their babies as bombs exploded just outside their maternity ward. The shift in public perception is painfully too late for innumerable people traumatized and bereaved by war. Nevertheless, the chance to press with all our might for a continuing and growing shift, repudiating war, could point us in a new direction.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">The war in Yemen is horrific and ought to be ended immediately. It makes eminent good sense to give both our hands and all the energies we can possibly summon, to end the war in Yemen and vow the abolition of all war.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class=""><em class="">Kathy Kelly (<a href="mailto:kathy@vcnv.org" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">kathy@vcnv.org</a>) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (<a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=bb6b2e7aff&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">www.vcnv.org</a>) which is organizing a two week “Voices Rising – Fast for Yemen” beginning in NYC December 29, 2018 for the first week. During the second week, Jan. 6 – 12, participants will join the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=c77203134a&e=f71aaef777" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Witness Against Torture</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>fast in Washington, D.C.</em></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templateBody" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="bodyContainer"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templateFooter" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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