[Peace] Kathy Kelly asks you to call for peace / On New Year’s Day, 01/01/11 / (661) 673-8600 & access code: 295191#

[Karen Medina]

On New Year’s Day, 01/01/11, people around the world are invited to
raise their voices, through Facebook, Twitter, Free Conference calls,
Skype, and blogs at several websites in a massive refusal to accept
this war any longer.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
FROM: Kathy Kelly, Co-coordinator, Voices for Creative Nonviolence

While the US may be the world's single super power in military terms,
it faces another super power: the voices of war-weary millions who
detest violence and killing. In Afghanistan, in the United States, and
among the populations of countries whose governments have joined the
NATO coalition, millions of people are calling for an end to war in
Afghanistan.

On New Year’s Day, 01/01/11, people around the world are invited to
raise their voices, through Facebook, Twitter, Free Conference calls,
Skype, and blogs at several websites in a massive refusal to accept
this war any longer. Let your New Year’s resolution be to stand for
the people and end wars by sending a digital or spoken peacemaking
message to people in Afghanistan.  By amassing millions of messages
calling for peace, we can create yet another indication that ordinary
people within and beyond Afghanistan have had enough of war.

Afghanistan’s people need food not bombs, health care not warfare and
courage for peace, not war.  In the words of Abdulai, an Afghan
teenager whose father was killed by the Taliban, the “Dear
Afghanistan” campaign offers an alternative to the Obama
administration’s most recent review of the war. Abdulai’s experiences
of impoverishment, bereavement, and discrimination highlight realities
that Afghans face every day. The U.S. government’s December review
paid no attention to these conditions.

You can let Afghan people know that their lives matter as much as
yours.  Assure them that the U.S. government’s war is unacceptable to
you and that you are working to end it.

We can catch courage from one another, sparking a New Year’s momentum
to put an end to war.

Follow the steps below to communicate the simple yet crucial demand:
Stop the Killing in Afghanistan.

On New Year’s Day 2011, from 7.05 pm Eastern Standard Time on the 31st
of December 2010 to 7.05 pm Eastern Standard Time on the 1st of
January 2011, from wherever in the world, you can:

·   Call from your Mobile or Home phone by dialing (661) 673-8600 &
access code: 295191#. Please arrange to talk by sending an email to
CallAfghanistan at gmail.com

·  SKYPE: Please arrange to call Afghanistan by sending your Skype ID
in an email to CallAfghanistan at gmail.com

·  Send an email message to DearAfghanistan at gmail.com

·  Text or sms by mobile at +93 7791 84146 or +1 727-248-0308
(001-727-248-0308 if text messaging from outside U.S.)

·  Facebook: Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers

·  @DearAfghanistan on Twitter


For more information: Visit Dear Afghanistan

A note on timings for the NEW YEAR CALL :

Place                Time                                 Date
London        12.05 am to 12.05 am       1st Jan to 2nd Jan
EST              7.05 pm to 7.05 pm          31st Dec to 1st Jan
Pacific Std     4.05 pm to 4.05 pm          31st Dec to 1st Jan
Jordan          2.05 am to 2.05 am          1st Jan to 2nd Jan
Afghanistan   4.35am  to 4.35 am          1st Jan to 2nd Jan

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Kathy Kelly
Co-coordinator, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
1249 West Argyle Street
Chicago, IL  60640
773-878-3815
www.vcnv.org