Afghan youth ask for love in the 30-shot anger of the Gaza flotilla ; humanity is breaking down
June 6, 2010 by
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‘Even a little of our love is stronger than the wars of the world.’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7OWATVkYO4
What is humanity’s ‘coalition’ about? What is Mankind about?
Giving some or grabbing all?
Kindness or killing?
Dignity or deceit?
In this unsustainable madness, we ask for love.
A love that’s quiet, sensible and strong.
When the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers, who are privileged to have the friendship of Rachel Corrie’s parents Cindy and Craig Corrie, decided to fly kites for Gaza Freedom March on the eve of 2010, we were doing so with a living understanding of death.
We know that the self-destructive, violent ways of our world today do not offer hope of healing from the ‘30-shots-flying-into-9 peace activists’ sort of anger and fear, nor from any ‘collateral damage’.
Britain’s Guardian newspaper quoted Yalcin Buyuk, the vice-chairman of the Turkish council of forensic medicine, as saying that the 9 men were shot a total of 30 times.
So, we offer our grief and call for LOVE.
Few belief in such LOVE,whether foreigners or fellow Afghans.
An international in Afghanistan had told us that “Afghans do not use the word love nor understand it.”
So, we recently painted our words of love at the Bamiyan Peace Park in Afghanistan ( in the video above ) and found out a week later that vandals had sprayed red paint over our struggle.
Trying to snuff out love.
But we can’t stop.
Because even a little of such love, however meager, is stronger than the wars of the world.
Even a little of our love is stronger than the wars of the world
Text of video
These Afghan youth painted Love at Bamiyan Peace Park
We are deeply saddened that people were killed on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
We share all of humanity’s pain
We mustn’t wage war in response. We wish for a global response that’s full with love because as these words say ‘Even a little of our love is stronger than the wars of the world.’
The world should sit down to converse & through love, to bring reconciliation
Even a little of our love is stronger than the wars of the world. These words at Bamiyan Peace Park have just been erased by vandals
….but with Abdulai, we will inscribe our love again!
we will inscribe our words of love again…
The People’s Journey begins, little by little, but beyond dismissal ; set to sail our hearts’ freedom flotillas!
June 3, 2010 by
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Josh, Conor and Salam Hassan have begun The People’s Journey in San Francisco http://www.thepeoplesjourney.org/
The People’s Journey made the first long-distance tele-connection ( Sacramento San Francisco Bay Peace Better Alternatives for Youth http://www.baypeace.org to Bamiyan Afghanistan ) this US evening and Afghan morning!
making the life-important person to person connections
Freedom often costs humanity,
sometimes the intolerable cost of priceless lives ;
the Freedom Flotilla struggle encourages us!
The People’s Journey begins,
little by little,
but beyond dismissal ;
set to sail our hearts’ freedom flotillas!
love is how the kites will fly in Gaza, Afghanistan and the world!
But we wish to keep on going in the spirit of the Gandhian Salt March, resounding with you in saying that “Love is how we’ll ask for peace!”
Please join us…join us!!
When the group gathered at Sacramento asked Abdulai and Zerghuna in Afghanistan how American friends could support Afghans, Abdulai answered, “ Simply by ENCOURAGING us!” to the human-to-human applause of some more People from Sacramento SA who have become friends! Thank you!
“Simply by ENCOURAGING us!”
Abdulai in Afghanistan to American peacemaking friends
The Bay Peace friends
“Hey Hakim, So great to connect with you. It felt like a miracle! 
We were all so happy to be able to talk with you…….The BAY-Peace youth were really quite moved.” Susan Quinlan, BAY-Peace: Better Alternatives for Youth
2 months ago, our peacemaking friends from Little Friends for Peace www.lffp.org gave us their personal, touching words of encouragement in the video above http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOIpi6snUmw
From us in Afghanistan, thank you Mary Park, and all our new ‘little’ friends!
One of our Little Friends said : ‘We’re here to encourage you to think positive and always look to a better way to solve your problems even though it might be hard sometimes.”
Please help The People of our world by encouraging one another, little by little, person by person, till we all embrace a Peace Beyond Dismissal!