The San Francisco Chronicle
APRIL 29, 2003, TUESDAY, FINAL EDITION
SOURCE: Chronicle Staff Writer
BYLINE: Robert Collier

They lost the fight to stop the war, and a U.S. administration they loathe has taken power as Iraq’s new provisional ruler. Now, peace activists from the United States and Europe who came to Iraq to resist the war are divided over what to do next.

Some have thrown up their hands and left Iraq, saying the country is a lost cause. Others have stayed and switched from anti-war activism to pragmatic reform, helping start newspapers and working with the U.S. military to provide compensation to civilian victims of the war.

Chicago Sun-Times
April 27, 2003 Sunday
SECTION: NEWS SPECIAL EDITION; Pg. 5
BYLINE: Dave Newbart

Kathy Kelly has seen the horror of war firsthand: dozens of charred Iraqi remains in burned-out cars, and bodies piled in the streets. But her demeanor is not that of someone who just got back from a war front. She is as focused and determined as the day she left Chicago for Iraq.

Two days after returning from a three-month stay in Baghdad, the well-known peace activist offers a visitor tea, potato chips, junk food and fruit laid out on the kitchen table in her Uptown home.

27 April 2003

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
-Howard Zinn
Voices Statement on U.S. Foreign Policy and Economic Sanctions

Salon.com
April 24, 2003 Thursday
SECTION: Feature
BYLINE: By Michelle Goldberg

Stationed in Iraq to witness the American invasion, these activists tell a different brand of war story.

Before the war in Iraq began, dozens of Western peace activists made a commitment to station themselves in Baghdad as witnesses. Those from America came with two groups — Voices in the Wilderness and Christian Peacemaker Team. Unlike the hundreds of human shields who descended on Baghdad and whom the Iraqi government deployed to power plants and other industrial sites, these activists had few quixotic dreams of using their presence to stop bombs. Their goal was both more practical and more abstract — to stand in solidarity with the Iraqis, to document the human cost of war, to try to forge bonds between citizens whose armies were killing each other.

In These Times
April 14, 2003
SECTION: IN PERSON; Pg. 8
BYLINE: BY JOHN MALKIN

For her work as co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the economic sanctions against the people of Iraq, Kathy Kelly has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Voices in the Wilderness delivers medicine and other supplies to Iraqis in defiance of U.S. government sanctions. As a result, it has faced tens of thousands of dollars in fines. John Malkin spoke with Kelly in January.

How many times have you been to Iraq, and what kind of supplies does Voices in the Wilderness deliver to the Iraqi people?

When I go this time, I think it will be my 18th trip. We’ve sent 58 delegations and assisted in getting quite a few more groups over there. There are about 15 people over there right now, called the Iraq Peace Team. Mainly we bring medicines and medical relief supplies. Some school supplies. Medical textbooks on compact discs are quite valuable. What we bring is really a pittance in relation to the need. It is like a drop in the ocean. We are by no stretch of the imagination a medical relief group.