After months in Afghanistan, 70 trips to Iraq, she deserves to be heard [View all]

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MARK BROWN
markbrown@ suntimes.com
May 18, 2012 11:10PM
Updated: May 19, 2012 12:50AM

Kathy Kelly walked into town early Friday on the last leg of a 180-mile trek from Madison with activists trying to build support to stop the war in Afghanistan.

On Sunday she will be among the keynote speakers at the big NATO protest rally in Grant Park — her work on behalf of the affected citizenry in far-flung war zones making her perhaps the most credible voice at the microphone.

Then on Monday, it will be back on a plane to Afghanistan, where she will spend the next month living and working in Kabul with a multi-ethnic group of young Afghans seeking non-military paths to peace for their troubled nation.

Somewhere in between was to be a reunion of other activists who joined her for 70 trips to Iraq between 1996 and 2003 to deliver medical aid in defiance of U.S. economic sanctions.

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