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		<title>What would Gandhi say to Afghan youth today?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ali, Faiz and Abdulai at the Gandhi Memorial in New Delhi, India Indian, Afghan and human poverty Faiz, Abdulai, Ali and I are travelling in India to learn from Gandhian practitioners ( in Ekta Parishad ). We wish to learn how to mobilize people from the villages to protest non-violently. Immediately, we’re encountering our own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noam Chomsky: The U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement is ‘part of a global program of world militarization’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://wagingnonviolence.org/2011/12/noam-chomsky-the-u-s-afghanistan-strategic-partnership-agreement-is-part-of-a-global-program-of-world-militarization/ The Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers   This is a transcript of a conversation between members of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers and Noam Chomsky, which took place on September 21, 2011. Each question was asked in Dari and translated by Hakim. Hakim: Thank you, Professor Chomsky, for speaking to us. We are speaking from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punishment by killing &#8211; a view from Afghanistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stoning of Suraya Are we nearer to freeing ourselves from systemic subjugation to the 1%, and living beyond pleasing others and pursuing THINGS? Is love revolutionizing? 15 year old Afghan student Abdulai was watching the Iranian movie ‘The Stoning of Suraya’. When the deceived villagers were praising God’s greatness and demanding Suraya’s death for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2011/10/punishment-by-killing-a-view-from-afghanistan/</link>
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		<title>Occupy the Afghan Airwaves!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occupy the Afghan Airwaves! On the 21st of October 2011, use your Skype or phone to converse with the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers : To arrange a date and time, go to http://globaldaysoflistening.org and write to globaldaysoflistening@gmail.com We thank Prof Noam Chomsky for speaking to the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers during last month’s Global Days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God has failed these 10 Afghan years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends who sense that the ‘elite’ are too greedy, God has failed these 10 Afghan years http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csZyoSdhsaE Written in the voice of a 10 year old Afghan child from Kandahar My mother tells me I’m God-sent, cos’ we survived the bombings. 10 years have passed, Mother still has a creased faith, though now she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘What was 9/11?’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[‘What was 9/11?’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u49n2LMT3w Paul Arpaia of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows ( from New York USA ), whose cousin was killed on September 11, and Mohammad Jan of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers ( from Bamiyan Afghanistan ) met in Kabul Afghanistan recently. Though their sharing was brief, it was a sharing of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Y Not make music?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Y Not make music? Y Not have a conversation with the ‘demonized’? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwUWKeXTm6o Below are events coming up for you to make a connection with or find out more about the ‘demonized’ people of Afghanistan and other conflict areas. Global Days of Listening &#8211; 21st of August 2011 Sunday Location : From your Skype account [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American and Afghan Slavery Will Soon Be Signed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American and Afghan slavery will soon be signed a statement issued by the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers August 9, 2011 ‘The world doesn&#8217;t have to choose between the Taliban and the US government. All the beauty of the world—literature, music, art—lies between these two fundamentalist poles.’ War Is Peace, by Arundhati Roy, October 18, 2001 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2011/08/american-and-afghan-slavery-will-soon-be-signed/</link>
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		<title>Sometimes, we may hurt like the Afghan dove</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends in an antagonistic world, In the face of a broken Afghan dove, what can the people ask for? Sometimes, we may hurt like the Afghan dove http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y8bRK5-dM0 In the face of possible ‘doom’, what can we ask for? Y Not listen? Y Not Converse? Have conversations between the People and world leaders become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2011/07/sometimes-we-may-hurt-like-the-afghan-dove/</link>
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		<title>From Afghans to Gazans, ‘Why can’t we touch your face?’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, The approximately 1000 ordinary people sailing with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla II ought to stop us in our ordinary tracks at least for a moment. Why are ordinary people doing this for others not related to them? Why are ordinary people supporting these freedom sailors? Why are a few governments against this non-violent [...]]]></description>
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