by Hakim
Writer, Dandelion Salad
http://ourjourneytosmile.com
April 2, 2014
ourjourneytosmile·Apr 1, 2014
Dear friends,
On the 28th of March, 2014, at about 4 p.m., the Afghan Peace Volunteers heard a loud explosion nearby. For the rest of the evening and night, they anxiously waited for the sound of rocket fire and firing to stop. It was reported that a 10 year old girl, and the four assailants, were killed. Continue reading
by Hakim
Writer, Dandelion Salad
http://ourjourneytosmile.com
January 22, 2014
The Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul, with British and Swedish friends
Dear friends,
“The political and economic mafia of Afghanistan and the world run this country with their guns and bombs,” says Abdulhai, a 17 year old Afghan Peace Volunteer. “We the people are rather helpless, unless we stand together.”
Abdulhai’s sentiment helps to describe what is needed in the Borderfree movement: ordinary people of our human family from all walks of life and from every country standing together to build non-violent alternatives under the same blue sky (symbolized by the Borderfree Blue Scarves), relating and working for a better, more equal world.
by Hakim
Writer, Dandelion Salad
http://ourjourneytosmile.com
Sept. 9, 2013
Image by isafmedia via Flickr
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RussiaToday– Apr 7, 2013
At least 11 children are reported to have been among 18 people killed today in the latest airstrike by U.S. led forces in Afghanistan. The raid was allegedly called in by troops on the ground, after bitter fighting nearby. RT’s Tariq Muhi-yuddin reports.
by Hakim
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://ourjourneytosmile.com
Mar. 3, 2013
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by Hakim
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://ourjourneytosmile.com
April 19, 2012
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
This video was filmed as we kept each other company nearby the attacks on the Afghan Parliament building, the Parliament being one of seven separate locations in Kabul where the ‘Taliban’ launched 18 hours of co-ordinated attacks on the 15th of April 2012.
In the video as it was in our hearts that day, the senseless sounds of the fighting could be ‘felt’.
by Hakim
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://ourjourneytosmile.com
April 14, 2012
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
Dear friends of ordinary 99 percent Afghans,
We thank you for your love and your hands and feet, in organizing for the upcoming Chicago protests!
In these killing days, we in Afghanistan do not expect the interests of people to triumph over self-interests. But your efforts prove that another world is possible.
with Hakim
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://ourjourneytosmile.com
April 3, 2012
ourjourneytosmile on Apr 3, 2012
Love or Enmity in Afghanistan? Are Pushtoons, Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks and other ethnic groups in Afghanistan doomed by geopolitics to hate one another? Is non-violence an ‘obsolete’ concept for Afghans? Can economic self-reliance be built out of a globally dominant capitalism? Is genuine love possible in Afghanistan? Can the Afghan Peace Volunteers find peace in Afghanistan?
Updated: March 13, 2012
with Hakim
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://ourjourneytosmile.com
Mar. 12, 2012
democracynow on Mar 12, 2012
democracynow.org – We go to Kabul to speak with an Afghan peace activist about the shooting spree by an U.S. Army sergeant in Afghanistan, which killed 16 Afghan civilians, nine of them children. Calls for a more rapid withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan have escalated after the U.S. soldier reportedly walked more than a mile from his base, breaking in to three separate houses to attack families as they slept. Continue reading
by Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers
Waging Nonviolence
December 16, 2011
The Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers is an Afghan youth group committed to building non-violent, non-military and egalitarian ways of life for Afghanistan. Their can be found at Our Journey to Smile.
[Editor’s. note: This is a transcript of a conversation between members of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers and Noam Chomsky, which took place on September 21, 2011. Each question was asked in Dari and translated by Hakim.]
Hakim
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://ourjourneytosmile.com
August 19, 2011
ourjourneytosmile on Aug 19, 2011
Y Not make music?
Y Not have a conversation with the ‘demonized’?Below are events coming up for you to make a connection with or find out more about the ‘demonized’ people of Afghanistan and other conflict areas.
Hakim
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://ourjourneytosmile.com
June 26, 2011
Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers flew kites
for the people of Gaza
photo by Hakim
Dear friends,
The approximately 1000 ordinary people sailing with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla II ought to stop us in our ordinary tracks at least for a moment.
Why are ordinary people doing this for others not related to them?
Why are ordinary people supporting these freedom sailors?
Why are a few governments against this non-violent human solidarity?
Hakim
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://ourjourneytosmile.com
June 15, 2011
Dear friends,
Peace from Afghanistan, specially to those with the Caravan of Solace far-away in Mexico, who strengthen us with their poetic struggle.
From Afghanistan, we need you to know: Walking together is not a weakness. It is our everything.
Hakim
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
June 8, 2011
Dear friends,
Gandhi had said, ‘Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man and silence is necessary in order to surmount it.”
by Kathleen Kirwin, Esq.
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
May 4, 2011
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On Saturday, March 30th, the Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under its nom de guerre, The Taliban, declared the launch of this year’s spring military operations (the “Spring Offensive”) against the “invading Americans”, their foreign allies, internal supporters, high ranking officials of the Karzai government, including cabinet members and lawmakers, as well as heads of foreign and local companies who work with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). In response to, and in anticipation of, the Taliban’s announcement, NATO officials in Brussels have advised that international forces in Afghanistan have tightened security, security services employed by “westerners” working in Afghanistan have issued lockdowns and travel restrictions, the Afghan government has tightened security across the country and security has been increased at military bases. Continue reading
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