Afghan youth in operation TOGETHER against violence

Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers saddened by Operation Moshtarak مشترک  ‘ TOGETHER ’

Please watch them speak clearly to the world, against militarism and violence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kIjfLz-Si0

Please, do not fight anymore.

We should stand TOGETHER in non-violence

No one wins in war, neither men nor women

We should stand TOGETHER to stop our world’s militarism

We the people of Afghanistan are tired of war & don’t want this war

We are not willing for the Taliban, or international & Afghan soldiers or Afghan civilians to be killed

We the youth of Afg say to Obama, Gordon Brown & the world, let’s be TOGETHER in the way of humane-ness & non-violence ‘cos love is how we’ll ask for peace

Love is how we’ll ask for peace.

The Afghan youth peace volunteers

‘Their flesh is my flesh, their blood is my blood, their pain is my pain, their SMILE is my SMILE.’ Henri Nouwen

International peace volunteers in Olympia USA & across the globe. ‘Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.’ Mother Teresa

The picture with our peace message Reconciliation of Civil Hearts for the Nobel Peace Laureate President Obama.

We have hope that love has a value which overcomes even death.

We know that we’re not alone.

We’re waiting historically with the rest of the world.

Love is how we’ll ask for peace

Afghans desire peace whatever the walls

Please watch how Afghans in Kabul desire peace so much they’d scribble it on the walls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H_ADb4SUag

I was in Kabul recently and as I was passing by the high, barbed-wire walls surrounding the Ministry of Finance, I noticed the deep wishes of Afghans ‘graffiti-ed’ on the grey walls, declaring :

Peace is happiness

Peace for security

Peace is mutual respect

Peace is friendship

Peace is our hope

Peace is our desire.

I couldn’t capture all the ‘graffiti’ in time, but need we demand more Afghan ‘graffiti’ to prove their desperate desire for peace, while the world gets un-imaginatively stuck in the tiring idea that bombs and bullets can meet the needs of their hearts?

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For those who would remember Afghanistan

Don’t just remember its ruins

Remember the writing on its walls saying, “ Peace for security”

And most of all, remember her people

Afghans who want to make human contact with others

Radio : I want to speak more to my daughter but telephone expenses are high…

Afghan wall wish: Peace is good fortune

Afghans declare on the walls : Peace is happiness

And most of all, remember her people…

Afghans who wish it so much they’ll write it on the walls : Peace is our desire

How we would want Afghan children to play or cry

Please watch how Afghan children ski and play ‘marbles’ with stones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w97Be_hMzjo

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Modern Warfare 2 is a video war game that raked in US$550 million in the first 5 days of its sales

Afghan children playing ‘marbles’, with stones

Play may involve fears and risks

Afghan children skiing with sneakers, shoes & sticks

We need to ask all those hard questions from the very beginning

What do we want children to grow up playing & learning?

‘Cos when the children fight let them know it ain’t right’

‘When the children pray let them know the way’

What can we say when the children cry in the wars which adults wage?

Background Music “When the children cry”

Little child, dry your crying eyes

How can I explain the fear you feel inside

Cos you were born into this evil world, where men has killed young men, and no one knows just why

What have we begun, just look what we have done

All that we destroyed, you must build again

When the children cry, let them know we tried

Cos when the children fight, let them know it ain’t right

When the children pray let them know the way

Cos when the children sing, then the new world begins