Afghan lady & girl’s loving greetings of peace to U.S. Ambassador Eikenberry; a heart storm is slowly seeding
November 24, 2009 by
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Please watch an Afghan lady & girl stand with peace youth volunteers in greetings to the U.S. Ambassador Eikenberry, who urged for no troop surge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGRp995K2Xg
Nazuko
Zekerullah, “Eikenberry Sir & your wife, do you have time to be with us at the Bamiyan Peace Park?”
Nazuko : “We wish for peace. Love is how we’ll ask for peace.”
This seems a time when we keep asking each other what is enough, what numbers, what measures…
Against the grain, even the decay within ourselves, we stand with friends in the quiet resolution that love is enough, yes, love is enough.
Others may take everything away from us, but they cannot take away love.
Love is how we’ll ask for peace
2nd Cup of Tea Peace Vigil, our second mile of love
Come stand with us for love!
Parwin
The heart-storm of love is slowly seeding. We thank the individuals from the groups below who inspire us to plod on in Afghanistan!
- Olympia Washington Vigil
Dennis Mills with friends
Other photos :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tricyrtis_hirta/sets/72157622733609809/
- Evergreen State College Vigil, Olympia Washington
Vigil group at Evergreen
Other photos :
http://s896.photobucket.com/albums/ac161/jjacobro/2ND%20CUP%20OF%20TEA/?start=0
- Mideast Solidarity Project, Evergreen State College, Olympia Washington
Mideast Solidarity Project
- Sheridan Peacemakers, Wyoming USA
Joan Borst with Sheridan Peacemakers
- Stand Up for Peace, Laramie USA
Lesley Wischmann and Stand Up for Peace
- Contagious Love Experiment
Josh Steiber and friends
- Corvallis Alternatives Against the War
Carol and Jane Alexander
Read this article on the faithful 9 year peace vigil of this group
http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/sns-ap-us-ripples-of-war,0,3127649,full.story
We also thank Douglas Mackey, Dennis Mills and staff of Olympia High School for making possible a long-distance tele-conference with the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers on the 24th of November 2009.
Afghan lady & girl stand with vigil youth to greet Eikenberry in peace
November 21, 2009 by
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Please watch an Afghan lady & girl stand with peace youth in greetings of peace to the U.S. Ambassador Eikenberry, who urged for no troop surge
We’re sorry that we’re having technical problems with this video upload. We’ll try to correct this soon! Thanks.
Nazuko
13 year old Zekerullah, “Eikenberry Sir & your wife, do you have time to be with us at the Bamiyan Peace Park?”
Nazuko : “We wish for peace. Love is how we’ll ask for peace.”
This seems a time when we keep asking each other what is enough,
what numbers, what measures…
Against the grain, even the decay within ourselves, we stand with friends in the quiet resolution that love is enough, yes, love is enough.
Others may take everything away from us, but they cannot take away love.
2nd Cup of Tea Peace Vigil, our second mile of love
Come stand with us for love!
Parwin
The love in Zekerullah’s journey to peace ; restoring the truth
November 18, 2009 by
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Please watch 13 year old Zekerullah explain why ‘there’s no justice or truth in Afg today’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgCXy60yy2U
Zekerullah, a 13 year Afghan youth peace volunteer who is taking part in the peace vigils at Bamiyan Peace Park, is learning to walk that 2nd mile for love.
Love speaks the truth with gentleness, calling corruption corruption, not a budding democracy.
Love will not nurture greed in Afghan robes or international suits.
Love walks 2 hours in the mud to earn a decent penny though it is aware that, by economic design, money and power are not with those who walk.
Love deliberately asks ‘Does Zekerullah deserve a decent livelihood as much as I do?’
Love waits eagerly for peace and justice, even if, by ‘fateful neglect’, it is un-noticed and un-rewarded.
Love knows that killing in whatever name, even in the name of ‘Overseas Contingency Operations’, is killing. Killing removes life and love; we are not able to justify to Zekerullah that killing is a civil response for our ‘contingencies’.
Love recognizes that war is not peace, whatever its prize.
Love empathizes with soldiers and victims who suffer post-traumatic stress, knowing that it is an ORDER of human conscience that can guide Mankind to wholeness, pleading ‘Enough. Please stop!’
Zekerullah making biscuits and cakes
Please speak the truth in love together with Zekerullah, not later but now.
Say it as it is.
This may be a chance for Afghan youth to raise the possibility of love,
for Man to do a little something for other Men,
by standing and waiting firmly for peace before the giants that be.
Killing goes against everything we’re taught from childhood about love and compassion. It goes against every religious doctrine and moral code. It’s small wonder that so many come back from war “sick at heart.”
Irish Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire
2nd Cup of Tea Peace Vigil begins our 2nd mile for love
November 16, 2009 by
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Please watch the growing smiles of friendship over tea!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-4ZMh8Z9ts
2nd Cup of Tea Peace Vigil begins our 2nd mile for love
‘Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.’
Mother Teresa
Come and have the 2nd cup of tea and deepen our friendships of peace.
Friends, join us wherever you are!
With love,
from the Afghan & International Youth Peace Volunteers
Dandelion Salad and Peace Works
We thank our peacemaker friends in PeaceWorks, Columbia Missouri USA, for giving us their support. We were encouraged by all your smiles!
Thanks to Dandelion Salad, below is the link to the photos of the smiling faces from Columbia, MO when the Peaceworks organization gathered for their annual dinner
‘Love is How We’ll Ask for Peace’ (Set)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorri37/sets/72157622681524727/
Mary
Alex, Emma and Lily
Amy
Gail and Peter
Oregon Fellowship of Reconciliation
We also thank Oregon Fellowship of Reconciliation for writing to us on You Tube, saying :
The Oregon Fellowship of Reconciliation endorses your efforts! Let love bring peace! A photo will follow!
Our growing peace vigil friendships
Thank you all for encouraging us. Please send us your vigil information and pictures, wherever you are standing for peace, to youthpeacevolunteers@gmail.com
2nd Cup of Tea Peace Vigil, our 2nd mile of love
November 15, 2009 by
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Though we may be discouraged by the loud words, the self-interest, the disunity and the sinking sense of futility, we can share a cup of tea as we keep a vigil for peace.
Though we may be surrounded by neglect, anger, pride and the meaningless mire of violence, we can find mutual comfort in transforming our struggle for love.
Mohd Hussein starts 2nd Cup of Tea Peace Vigil
with 8 other Afghan youth peace volunteers
Mohd Hussein and 8 other Afghan peace youth volunteers will begin their 2nd Cup of Tea Peace Vigil on Sunday, the 15th of November 2009, daily from 12 noon to 1 pm Bamiyan time, at the Bamiyan Peace Park.
Please watch Mohd Hussein invite us for Afghan tea!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF0msK8dlh4
We’ll have our 2nd cups of tea, in deepening our friendships and strengthening our love.
We wish for you to join us in our 2nd Cup of Tea Peace Vigil,
person by hopeful person, friends with new friends
in homes, in parks, along the streets
and in the warm places of your hearts!
The first time, we’re friends. The second time, brothers.
Afghan proverb
Mohd Hussein’s labor of love and peace