http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog Follow us on Our Journey To smile Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:50:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Please watch Afghan Youth speak for peace in an insecure Afghan province http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srLM3Yiwc4A the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers The Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers traveled to Dai Kundi Province Dai Kundi is mountain-isolated & war was raging in 2 of its districts during our visit to this neglected place ?About 50 youth of ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/03/love%e2%80%99s-seed-in-an-insecure-afghan-province/ Abdulai the Afghan boy remembers those killed in Iraq, just as he remembers his father http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F647Zn4iqY8 Abdulai at his father's and grandfather's grave My dad & grand-dad were killed & this morning I went to their graves to remember them We the people of the world should restore the sacred value of ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/03/a-fatherless-afghan-boy-remembers-iraq-memorial-to-life/ As civilian casualties rise in the escalating Afghan war, listen to an Afghan child think about the value of life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CG6_zMH4NA   The value of working people The Associated Press 15th of Feb 2010 : U.S. Army units fighting the Taliban in Helmand province have a compensation system for any death, injury or damage ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/02/the-unequal-value-of-an-afghan-child/ Please watch Mohd Jan describe Afghan war and dehumanization http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQFXCgTXknc Man fleeing Man Transcript of video Mohd Jan, during the Soviet & Taliban wars, where did the people flee to? In the war, I also fled, everyone fled to safe places as they could. I fled over the mountains you ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/02/afghans-hope-for-humanity-sometime-somewhere-together/ Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers saddened by Operation Moshtarak ‘ TOGETHER ’ Please watch them speak clearly to the world, against militarism and violence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kIjfLz-Si0 together in non-violence Please, do not fight anymore. We should stand TOGETHER in non-violence No one wins in war, neither men nor women together in kindness ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/02/afghan-youth-in-operation-together-against-violence/ 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 Peace is our desire 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 ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/02/afghans-desire-peace-whatever-the-walls/ Please watch how Afghan children ski and play ‘marbles’ with stones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w97Be_hMzjo playing 'marbles', with stones Transcript of Video Modern Warfare 2 is a video war game that raked in US$550 million in the first 5 days of its sales Call to Duty ; Modern Warfare 2 video game Afghan children playing ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/01/how-we-would-want-afghan-children-to-play-or-cry%e2%80%8e/ Please watch how Afghan youth fasted & asked which other human we humans would torture next http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDloKITlBJM Zekerullah with a poster for Witness Against Torture On Martin Luther King’s Day this 18th of Jan, after fasting for 2 short days, in solidarity with Witness Against Torture’s 12 day fast for the ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/01/we-afghans-shall-live-in-peace-someday-connecting-with-witness-against-torture%e2%80%8e/ Please listen to Faiz’s heart of sorrow and humanity in remembering death and war http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yufP1iRr0z4 Faiz and post traumatic stress I can tell the story of a war in which I lost my brother... in front of me, before my eyes.. they shot him, with a Kalashnikov. .. a massacre… a ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/01/post-traumatic-stress-is-an-order-of-conscience-that-can-save-humanity/ Please watch Afghan youth speak to the world’s ‘intellectuals’ about their strategy against terrorism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzcNWj9iLsU How can war end the greed for power, the greed for money, poverty, the lack of work, the telling of lies, fear, injustice, ignorance, misunderstandings, self-interest, pride, violence, anger and hate? The intellectuals of the world ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/01/afghan-youth-believe-that-war-cannot-end-terrorism/