Other lands have dreams : from Baghdad to Pekin Prison / Kathy Kelly ; [foreword by Milan Rai].
2005
322.40973 K29o 2005
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Title
Other lands have dreams : from Baghdad to Pekin Prison / Kathy Kelly ; [foreword by Milan Rai].
Author
ISBN
1904859283 (trade pbk.)
9781904859284
9781904859284
Imprint
Petrolia, Calif. : CounterPunch ; Oakland, Calif. : AK Press, 2005.
Language
English
Description
173 pages ; 23 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
9781904859284
Call Number
322.40973 K29o 2005
System Control No.
(OCoLC)60643570
(OCoLC)60643570
(OCoLC)60643570
Summary
At a moment when so many despairing peace activists have thrown in the towel, Kathy Kelly, a witness to some of history's worst crimes, never relinquishes hope. Other Lands Have Dreams is literary testimony of the highest order, vividly recording the secret casualties of our era, from the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children inhumanely denied basic medical care, clean water and food by the US overlords to young mothers sealed inside the sterile dungeons of American prisons in the name of the merciless war on drugs. In the spring of 2004, human rights activist Kathy Kelly, twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, was sent to Pekin Federal Prison for leading a protest at the School of the Americas. While in prison, Kelly's organization, Voices in the Wilderness, was targeted by a U.S. State Department lawsuit charging that Kelly violated U.S.-imposed sanctions when she took humanitarian aid to Iraq during numerous visits over the last 5 years. In this fiercely eloquent book, Kelly recounts such trips to Iraq, tells the largely unknown story of the School of the Americas, and describes daily life inside a federal prison, where America's poor are warehoused. Like Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, Kelly's powerful narrative gives voice to the unheard millions suffering at home and abroad. Written by a human rights activist, this extraordinary narrative gives voice to the cries of people afflicted by military and economic warfare.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 8) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword: Kathy Kelly and The Long Wars / Milan Rai
Overture
Catching Courage
Letters from Iraq
Letters from Prison
Horizons and Hopes
Voices in the Wilderness, A Brief History
Afterword: / Jeffrey St. Clair / Alexander Cockburn.
Overture
Catching Courage
Letters from Iraq
Letters from Prison
Horizons and Hopes
Voices in the Wilderness, A Brief History
Afterword: / Jeffrey St. Clair / Alexander Cockburn.
Added Author
Available in Other Form
Online version: Kelly, Kathy. Other lands have dreams. Petrolia, Calif. : CounterPunch ; Oakland, Calif. : AK Press, 2005
Online version: Kelly, Kathy. Other lands have dreams. Petrolia, Calif. : CounterPunch ; Oakland, Calif. : AK Press, 2005
Online version: Kelly, Kathy. Other lands have dreams. Petrolia, Calif. : CounterPunch ; Oakland, Calif. : AK Press, 2005
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