{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5ca4a75d29388cc466cf4481/685af6a24a2d8b8b51a9c180?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Fasting for Gazans: Kathy Kelly's \"Other Lands Have Dreams -- Day 33","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5ca4a75d29388cc466cf4481/1750790185096-aedbbd81-b552-4cfe-b208-255cad6affef.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: collapse;\">Day 33 -- <a href=\"https://www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2025/05/21/veterans-hold-fast-gaza\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Veteran's For Peace \"Fast for Gaza.\"</a> </p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: collapse;\">This will be the final of the \"Fast for Gaza\" conversations with peacemaker Kathy Kelly.&nbsp; It was the beginning of a brutal heat wave in NYC; we found a shady spot on the UN side of 1st Avenue.&nbsp; On the opposite side a small group of fasting protestors held signs and umbrellas.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: collapse;\">Kathy and I talked about  her 2004 book \"Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison\" -- focusing on the chapter \"Change Agents\" -- when she was visited in Pekin Prison by two FBI agents.&nbsp; Kathy talks about the families and children she got to know during her many visits to Iraqi hospitals during the decades-long UN / US sanctions on Iraq. UNICEF reported that 500,000 children under the age of five died between 1991 and 1998 due to those sanctions. Kelly's&nbsp;\"Voices in the Wilderness\" worked to bring  medical supplies to those beleaguered people.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: collapse;\">The music in this program is “Hiroshima Rising from the Abyss\" performed by the Toshiko Akiyoshi / Lew Tabackin Jazz Band, featuring drummer Andy Watson.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: collapse;\">Alan Winson</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: collapse;\">barcrawlradio@gmail.com</p>","author_name":"Alan Winson & Rebecca McKean"}