July 3, 2017 At an April, 2017 Symposium on Peace in Nashville, TN, Martha Hennessy spoke about central tenets of Maryhouse, a home of hospitality in New York City, where Martha often lives andContinue reading
Category: Afghan Peace Volunteers
Afghan Street Kid Mubasir smiles despite his difficulties
Watch 10-year-old Mubasir tell his story in this short video (youtu.be/1TC5_MzYOqI): The Afghan Peace Volunteers run the Borderfree Street Kids School in Kabul, with 17 volunteer teachers teaching 100 multi-ethnic street kids Dari, Math, NonviolenceContinue reading
“Would You Like a Drink of Water?” Please Ask a Yemeni Child
June 21, 2019 This week, in New York City, representatives from more than 100 countries will begin collaborating on an international treaty, first proposed in 2016, to ban nuclear weapons forever. It makes sense forContinue reading
This is how I feel this week in Kabul
June 7, 2017 By Dr Hakim Background Situation On 13th April, the U.S. government used the ‘Mother of All Bombs’, weighing 9800 kg, killing at least 90. On 31st May, another extremist group, perhaps soonContinue reading
Feed the Hungry, Treat the Sick: A Crucial Training – by Kathy Kelly
June 16, 2017 On June 15, 2017, the New York Times reported that the government of Saudi Arabia aims to ease the concerns of some U.S. legislators over U.S. weapon sales to Saudi Arabia. TheContinue reading
FROM AFGHANISTAN TO MY #MOTHER!, AND THE CHILD IN EVERYONE
May 14, 2017 From Afghanistan, #Mother! https://youtu.be/H3e4OeB97RY 14th May 2017 By Dr Hakim The Afghan Peace Volunteers are sewing this table top piece for mothers Dear mom and fellow members of the human family,Continue reading
How Dare the World Behave as if You Were Never Born?
Dr Hakim 9th April 2017 Updated 14th April 2017 Mahdi doesn’t know his date of birth, but he thinks he’s 16 years old, which means that in the year he was formed and born, theContinue reading
Afghan Peace Volunteers, Afghanistan, Drones, Middle East, Migration & Refugees, Nonviolent Resistance Actions
Democracy Now! Latest from Yemen Fast and Afghanistan from Interviews with Kathy Kelly
Democracy Now! interviews Kathy Kelly on Yemen and Afghanistan. To hear her interviews please click Yemen and Afghanistan. Below are interviews and footage of the fast at the Isaiah Wall in NYC last week. Continue reading
Afghan Peace Volunteers, Afghanistan, Drones, Middle East, Migration & Refugees, Nonviolent Resistance Actions
Angry, Desperate, Rejected
April 6, 2017 Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King gave his boldest and perhaps most defining speech. It alienated liberal allies in the North and the Northern press, plus many in King’s own civilContinue reading
Afghan Peace Volunteers, Afghanistan, Drones, Middle East, Migration & Refugees, Nonviolent Resistance Actions
Night after Day in Afghanistan
By Dr Hakim I’m so often caught up in the daily concerns of work and the wars raging across Afghanistan and many parts of the world that I forget how remarkable it is that atContinue reading