What MSM won't show you from Chicago

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49. Afghans For Peace

Last edited Fri May 25, 2012, 01:48 AM - Edit history (2)

Thank you for finding these links, friends! I found myself fighting back tears as they ran down my face through many of the speeches.

The young Afghan woman I was alluding to above is Samira Sayed-Rahman of Afghans For Peace. This is the only except from her poem that I found in print.


I am a daughter of an [Afghan] refugee, and my taxpayer dollars are being used to kill my family. The media is playing this [Afghanistan war] as a "good war" and that it is helping to liberate Afghan women. Bombing Afghanistan into oblivion is not going to help these women. NATO occupation out of Afghanistan!

http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2012/05/24/making-illa-noise-in-chicago-against-nato-and-the-afghanistan-war.html

It is a raw, angry, hard-hitting and heartbreaking, stranger than fiction but based in fact poem. I followed a few links until I came to the Afghans For Peace website. Unfortunately, her speech is password protected. But in case you'd care to listen, here's the link.

http://afghansforpeace.org/archives/2646
http://afghansforpeace.org/

I've been reading around and many who were there agree that this was the most powerfully moving moment of the demonstration.