“The Power of Creative Nonviolence: War, Peace, and Liberation in the 21st Century”
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Peace activists Kathy Kelly and Brian Terrell will speak on “The Power of Creative Nonviolence: War, Peace, and Liberation in the 21st Century”. Kathy Kelly and Brian Terrell are co-coordinators of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare. They have both worked on a range of peace and social justice issues over the years, and have both served time in prison for nonviolent resistance to drone warfare. They will join anti-drone demonstrators at Beale on Monday afternoon, April 27 and again on Tuesday morning, April 28.
Kathy Kelly, an internationally recognized peace activist, just served a three-month prison term in Lexington, Kentucky, for crossing onto Whiteman Air Force Base property with another demonstrator. They were attempting to deliver a loaf of bread and a letter to the base commander, asking him to stop his troops from piloting lethal drone flights over Afghanistan from within the base. Kathy was also arrested last year at Beale Air Force Base with twelve others at a Good Friday anti-drone action. The charges were subsequently dismissed. 
Kathy Kelly was one of the founders of Voices in the Wilderness, which broke the sanctions against Iraq by bringing in relief supplies and medicines to children and families. She lived in Baghdad throughout the 2003 “shock and awe” bombing, and lived alongside people in war zones in Gaza, Lebanon, Bosnia, and Nicaragua. She has taken nine trips to Afghanistan, where she has lived alongside ordinary Afghan people in Kabul, and is a war tax refuser. In 2011, Kathy was a passenger on “The Audacity of Hope,” the U.S. boat in the international flotilla to break the illegal occupation of Gaza. She has joined activists in the United States to protest drone warfare outside of military bases in Nevada, New York, Missouri, and California. Kathy is author of Other Lands have Dreams, and has been nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Brian Terrell, a Catholic Worker and lifelong peace activist, is event coordinator for the Nevada Desert Experience, which just completed its annual sixty-mile Sacred Peace Walk from Las Vegas to the Nevada Test Site. Another recent action he helped organize was Shut Down Creech, an anti-drone demonstration at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. 
Brian has also been arrested for anti-drone protests in Nevada and New York. He was one of the “Creech 14,” arrested in 2009 at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada in the first anti-drone action in the United States. In 2012 to 2013, Brian served a six-month sentence in federal prison for an anti-drone action at Whiteman Air Force Base. Brian lives and works at the Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm in Maloy, Iowa. He and his partner, Betsey Keenan, raise most of what they need from their gardens, chickens, and a small herd of goats. From this little farm, Brian travels to speak and act with various communities that are working for peace. He recently returned from a delegation to Afghanistan.
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Democracy Now! interview of Kathy Kelly before going to prison
Radio program with Brian Terrell discussing a recent major anti-drone action at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada and the state of the anti-drone-warfare movement
More writings by Brian Terrell, includes video of closing statement of the Hancock 38 trial
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For updated information about the April demonstrations at Beale, directions, and other details go to the Occupy Beale website or the Occupy Beale AFB Facebook page, or email occupybeale@earth-justice.org.