Press Action

Friday, January 30, 2004

Press Action Hero of the Week: KATHY KELLY

Even if you possess only the slightest hope of someday witnessing the breakdown of the U.S. war machine or a reduction in U.S. military atrocities overseas, you’d be hard-pressed not to admire the work of Kathy Kelly?

During the last couple of decades, Kelly, co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, has performed many admirable deeds, including meeting head-on the U.S. government’s possession of weapons of mass destruction and challenging its acts of militarism in Central America, Iraq and elsewhere around the world. Kelly is active in the Catholic Worker movement and has sought to counteract U.S. government horrors by trying to help its victims. Meanwhile, as a pacifist and war tax refuser, Kelly has bravely refused payment of all federal income tax for 23 years.

In the course of her work, especially since the founding of Voices in the Wilderness in 1996, Kelly has found herself in various skirmishes with state authorities. As she has discovered, the state does not look kindly on acts of disobedience against its authority, especially effective acts of resistance by people who do not fear the state’s retaliatory potential.

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