Afghan youth hope for One World of Friends
https://www.facebook.com/oneworld4abetterworld
Dear friends and peace-makers of the world,
I used to think that tiny actions were an unproductive waste of time.
I’ve changed.
Every tiny, ‘negligible’ action for change is beautiful and valuable.
Here’s a tiny action I’d ask you to consider taking to encourage the 99% of 30 million ordinary Afghans whose voices are not heard by anyone.
Please help Abdulhai and the Afghan Peace Volunteers find peace-loving friends from each and every one of the 195/196 countries of the world, friends who are impatient for a better world!
One world in one week
The Afghan Peace Volunteers are tired of rich and powerful politicians making unjust deals over their future, as President Karzai and President Obama did in Washington D.C.
They emulate Gandhi in his Salt March through this symbolic but person-to-person dream, hoping that when 195/196 friends have extended their hands in solidarity, they can say, “With our hands of friendship, we will shake the foundations of the world.”
“We want to break all borders!”
Abdulhai and the Afghan Peace Volunteers
Please encourage your international friends to send an email to 1week4abetterworld@gmail.com
Love and thanks,
Hakim and the Afghan Peace Volunteers
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PS : The Afghan Peace Volunteers had initially hoped to find friends from all over the world within one week. The week went by we hadn’t found friends from every country yet. So, we step on, patiently seeking friends, patiently working towards a better world.
Latest update ( up till 1.20 p.m. Kabul, Afghanistan time on the 4th of May, 2013 )
Number and list of Countries with people who’ve joined us : 51 + 1
Sweden, USA, Singapore, Afghanistan, Australia, UK, Poland, Ireland, Canada, Pakistan, India, Brazil, Egypt, Chile, Germany, Japan, Jordan, Philippines, Syria, Switzerland, Iraq, Haiti, New Zealand, Austria, Myanmar, Ghana, Belgium, Israel, Kuwait, Greece, Kosovo, Georgia, Lebanon, France, Mexico, Thailand, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Finland, Uruguay, Denmark, Columbia, Ecuador, Italy, Czech Republic, Taiwan, Iran, Costa Rica, Belgium, Togo, Jamaica, Argentina
Thank you!!
Faiz with the first list of countries which we have pinned on the wall
Raz holds up the second list
Abdulhai hopes to find friends from all 195 countries
Dear friends,
Each of the Afghan Peace Volunteers in these videos is dreaming of finding friends from all 195 countries of the world.
They all want to play their tiny part in building a world without borders.
This is our resistance in the age of repression, believing that ‘every hand of friendship is an act for freedom!’
Enjoy the video messages below, and Help us find friends who will join hands for better and fairer ways of organizing our global economy and community. Join us by writing to 1week4abetterworld@gmail.com
Love from Afghanistan,
Hakim and the Afghan Peace Volunteers
https://www.facebook.com/oneworld4abetterworld
http://globaldaysoflistening.org
One world in one week
An Afghan boy searches for Bob Marley’s place
Ali wishes Sri Lankans & the world a long life
Khamad with Guatemalan & Afghan drums
Raz on Bhutan and Afghan happiness
Afghanistan’s Sharif wishes to behold Finland’s Aurora
Faiz asks where Afghan tulips have gone
We want a more humane and meaningful and peaceful world and we know everyone else wants this too. And we know this WILL come about….we are the power of the world. Nothing is more powerful!!
Sending hope and friendship from my heart to yours! love and peace kathrin
Greetings and love from the UK and Ireland, sending kind wishes to you all xx
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in the words of Pete Seeger, 90 plus year old folksinger, banjo-playing agitator, “One blue sky above us, one ocean lapping all our shores, one earth so green and round, who could ask for more…….” I’d like to break all borders too, end all wars and hunger and greed
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I am an Earth Citizen of the east bay, west coast, North America, and I want a world without borders, too! So if you must keep score, please walk that talk by finding a different way to measure your success than by counting how many countries you’ve heard from. I have two reasons for this request: You are validating nation-state borders by giving more value to contacts in countries where you don’t happen to have one yet, and at the same time, you are devaluing the participation of real people in countries where contact is easy. For example, if your goal is to connect with people of other cultures in faraway places, why not track how many kilometers between your HQ and each person you connect with? Or how many people from each of the time zones on the planet?
Are you still doing monthly teleconferences? I attended in January, but I didn’t get an email reminder for February….
I respect your sanity and I wish you well