January 2018 The number of visitors passing through the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ (APVs’) Borderfree Nonviolence Community Center in Kabul is incredible. Each afternoon, nearly sixty high-school-age students attend free classes to prepare them for theContinue reading
Category: Afghanistan
Welcome to Kabul – Ken Hannaford-Ricardi
December 31, 2017 It is a dream come true being back among friends in Kabul! Streams of dented Toyotas (They are all Toyotas!) with windscreens cracked like bolts of lightning still jockey for position onContinue reading
An Escalating Afghan Crisis of ‘Profit’ Over ‘Life’ – Dr. Hakim
Photo: Surkh Gul’s daughter needs clean water (Dr. Hakim) November 14, 2017 “My family’s water well has dried up,” 18-year-old Surkh Gul said. “Ours too,” echoed 13-year-old Inaam. A distressed Surkh Gul lamented, “We haveContinue reading
Kathy Kelly in Madison Nov 9
Trillions for the Military: Will That Make Us Secure? Nov 9, 2017 7:00 PM Edgewood College-Predolin Humanities Center, Anderson Auditorium 1000 Edgewood College Dr. , Madison, Wisconsin 53711 Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative NonviolenceContinue reading
From the Ground Up
Photo: Masoumah invites Afghan mothers to speak about difficulties they face (credit: APVs) October 30, 2017 On a recent Friday at the Afghan Peace Volunteers‘ (APV) Borderfree Center, here in Kabul, thirty mothers sat cross-leggedContinue reading
Damn, I don’t want Rahman to end up being killed
1st October 2017 Sultan, Ali’s brother, was killed in August 2016. Hussein, Bismillah’s uncle, was killed in April 2017. I don’t want Rahman, Inaam’s brother, to end up being killed. Rahman is now training toContinue reading
UNDP Video on Zarghona and the APVs
From http://www.af.undp.org/content/afghanistan/en/home/ourwork/crisispreventionandrecovery/successstories/peace–the-distant–hopeful-dream-of-every-afghan.html: One Autumn day in 1998, seven-year old Zarghona Darya was doing her homework on the floor of the family house in Bamyan province, when her father rushed in, shouting “Taliban! Taliban!” It wasContinue reading
Afghan Peace Volunteers, Afghanistan, Drones, East Asia, Middle East, Nonviolent Resistance Actions, U.S. - Russia Tensions
New Book: VOICES FOR PEACE- War, Resistance and America’s Quest for Full-Spectrum Dominance
This timely anthology edited by T.J. Coles includes articles by Voices for Creative Nonviolence co-coordinators Kathy Kelly and Brian Terrell, along with Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Cynthia McKinney, Bruce Gagnon and others.. It can beContinue reading
“We are Killing Terrorists” and “Attack We Will”- Trump’s Most Vicious Racist Rant
On Monday, August 21, President Donald Trump delivered a prime-time speech almost shocking in its ordinariness. It was such an address as either of his immediate predecessors, George W. Bush or Barack Obama, could easilyContinue reading
IN AFGHANISTAN, WE’RE LEARNING TO CALM DOWN AND TO RELATE
July 9, 2017 You can view a one minute video clip of a conversation between Afghan street kids and Indian 5th graders above: From Afghanistan, children and youth learn through relationships 9th July 2017 By Dr Hakim BothContinue reading