Amidst political posturing, aerial terrorism, and street bombings, Afghan citizens pursue their daily work toward peace.Habib (standing, left) serves fruit at a meeting for parents at a “Street Kids School” meeting. This will be the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ third annual gathering of participants from each of Afghanistan’s thirty-four provinces. Theme: History, Police State & Civil Rights, US NATO War Agenda. The conference offers four days of intensive learning and discovery about cross-cultural understanding, nonviolence, and ways to abolish war.Yesterday, Dr. Hakim and I asked for complete quiet inside the center’s “office”—a large room lined with bookcases, file cabinets, mats, and sturdy pillows. Trailed by his mass negligent homicide - 163,000 deaths, over 5 million cases - Trump just tried issuing executive orders widely deemed "Constitutional slop" to stem the bleeding. by Kathy Kelly. I recommend the Afghan Peace Volunteers.Common Dreams has been providing breaking news & views for the progressive community since 1997. “It becomes too much.”“I didn’t know what to say,” Carmen recalls. His little brother walked alongside him, holding his hand, while Habib carried a scale and asked people to weigh themselves on it. There are many battles to be won, but we will battle them together—all of us. “Please raise your hand,” he says, “if you and your family have at least enough resources to meet your basic needs.”About six hands are raised. A Morning in Afghanistan Amidst political posturing, aerial terrorism and street bombings, Afghan citizens pursue their daily work toward peace. In-depth Report: AFGHANISTAN. Habib (standing, left) serves fruit at a meeting for parents at a “Street Kids School” meeting. The women cluster together. Hakim says his organization wants to help families become self-reliant so that after their children leave the Street Kids School they will have another way to acquire essentials like beans, rice, and cooking oil.Hakim now asks people to raise their hands if they could send one family member, like an older brother, to a three-month course on how to repair mobile phones. Kathy Kelly, co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence, (www.vcnv.org) a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare.. During each of several recent trips to Afghanistan, Kathy Kelly, as an invited guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, has lived alongside ordinary Afghan people in a working class neighborhood in Kabul. RSS. September 11, 2019. Some of the Afghan Peace Volunteers used permaculture methods to design and cultivate the space. More bunk. Several women seek Masoma’s help to write their names. Notebook papers are circulated to gather parents’ names, and, if possible, mobile phone numbers. "Because of people like you, another world is possible. Instead, we rely on readers like you, to provide the "people power" that fuels our work. Oral arguments will be heard including several motions as well as their belief they opposed the U.S. nuclear arsenal in accord with their religious faith. Kathy Kelly. Martha now faces up to 20 years in prison for protesting the most barbarous and inhumane weaponry ever invented.
(Photo: Kathy Kelly)n a very warm September morning in Kabul, several dozen men, women, and children sit on the carpeted floor of a room at the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ Borderfree Center. Voices for Creative Nonviolence 11 September 2019. “The two Taliban fighters had fled. Intense fighting and hideous attacks battered Afghans throughout their country last week as negotiators in Qatar weighed the benefits and costs of a peace agreement that might stop the bloodshed. They understand the wars, the omnicidal weapons awaiting their use at King’s Bay, and the suffering of the U.S. poor as, in some sense, all part of a global war on the poor. But he's facing a growing clamor from mutinous journalists, mostly women. Still clutching that pencil.”The same attack damaged a television station, a government facility and an adjoining private war museum.As negotiations inched forward, two Afghan government The Taliban, U.S. Government, and every other warring party in Afghanistan must be asked: “How many more civilians, including children, are you willing to kill and maim?” The second time I visited the OMAR museum was with my friend Martha Hennessy.
His father had been killed when a bomb exploded in Kabul. When I remark that several walls at the center were repaired and newly painted, Masoma smiled happily. Depending on whether we resist or acquiesce, grieve or complacently ignore, we ourselves risk becoming the tragic, perpetually dangerous remnants of war. Parents and … In the center of the room, a jumble of cords and power strips are connected to a solar power battery, a fan, a router, and a collection of cell phones and laptops.Hakim and I suggested that neither Trump nor any of the negotiators in Doha were participating in a genuine peace process.