Above photo: From the Afghan Peace Volunteers.
Inviting You To See Afghan’s Differently.
Note: The occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC in October, 2011 was planned in part to recognize and protest ten years of US aggression in Afghanistan without justification. The Afghan Peace Volunteers joined us the first night by Skype.
Kabul, Afghanistan – In light of the 14th anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan and the recent US bombing of a Doctors Without Borders charity hospital in the northern city of Kunduz that has killed at least 19 people and injured dozens of others, the Afghan Peace Volunteers are releasing a video each day for five days to show people in the US that they are human and we should not be bombing them.
On their website, Our Journey to Smile, the Afghan Peace Volunteers write:
After 14 long years of assuming that the war in Afghanistan is necessary, each day for the *next five short days, we offer you five tiny video snippets which invite you to see Afghans differently.
To the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul, acquiring new insights is essential, if we are all to survive the growing, multidirectional violence, from the Taliban on the ground or from U.S./NATO airstrikes like the fatal airstrike on the MSF ( Doctors Without Borders ) Hospital in Kunduz.
Please share these video clips with your friends. Tell them not to fear what they’ll see and hear. It is our hope that the images and sounds will humanize all of us, and help us to feel again.
Here is the first video. Please share it widely with the hashtag #Enough and let’s show our friends in Afghanistan that we don’t want this war either. You can also reach them through their Facebook and Twitter accounts.