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On the 28th of March, 2014, at about 4 p.m., the Afghan Peace Volunteers heard a loud explosion nearby. For the rest of the evening and night, they anxiously waited for the sound of rocket fire and firing to stop. It was reported that a 10 year old girl, and the four assailants, were killed.
Four days later, they circulated a video, poem and photos prefaced by this note: We had been thinking about an appropriate response to the violence perpetrated by the Taliban, other militia, the Afghan government, and the U.S./NATO coalition of 50 countries.
So, on the 31st of March 2014, in building alternatives and saying no to all violence and all forms of war-making, a few of us went to an area near the place which was attacked, and there, we planted some trees. Love and thanks, The Afghan Peace Volunteers
http://vcnv.org/voting-with-their-feet
Plant Trees Not Bombs in Afghanistan
It was the jolting vibrations
that shook our senses,
direction-less,
nonetheless directed by fellow humans.
Our eyes darted from mysterious fears
of losing one another.
Theres been an explosion. Dont come this way!,
torn by our unspoken wish to huddle together,
as if madness could be scattered
among the fragile shells of ourselves.
as if we could
dream the unknown away.
We couldnt,
the vision of connecting with other humans via Skype
stressing our time schedule,
as if there was a timetable
that could be kept in war,
as if sanity could be pursued
when our sight was wet.
My temper broke again,
Ali began to punch the wall,
Abdulhai bravely confessed disappointment with self,
and then, Faizs tears opened Alis river,
of sobs that were hard for me to hear,
though I knew then
that I was embracing loves defiance.
I saw that yesterday too.
Each of us,
not far from the burnt out and rocket damaged house of death,
planting trees,
with the street kids Martin, Mahdi and Bahran,
then the officials, the police, students, a street girl named Gulsom.
They wanted life too
Finally, an Afghan lady came,
stoically holding a sapling,
not a word,
but a hundred hurts and wishes
were in her posture.
With steady hands used to making bread,
she planted roots for all of us
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the young people "Plant Trees Not Bombs in Afghanistan" (Original Post)
annm4peace
Apr 2014
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jtuck004
(15,882 posts)1. They should get orange vests so we don't accuse them of planting bombs and kill them.
'Cause that's what we do, to keep us safe from tree-planting Muslims.
...However, the US official claimed that, before they called for the strike on suspected insurgents planting improvised explosive devices, marines had seen the children digging a hole in a dirt road and that "the Taliban may have recruited the children to carry out the mission".
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Three little boys, digging in the dirt. You ever dig in the dirt? Look over you shoulder for a missile when you were 7? Or 5?
At least they were killed by the people of the most powerful nation on earth. Scared of our own shadows, however.
here.