{"id":7742,"date":"2017-06-10T19:23:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=7742"},"modified":"2017-06-10T19:23:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:23:17","slug":"nonviolence-they-choose-for-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2017\/06\/nonviolence-they-choose-for-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonviolence They Choose For\u00a0Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anitamckone.wordpress.com\/songs-of-nonviolence\/nonviolence-they-choose-for-afghanistan\/\">Anita\u00a0McKone<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\">(11 March 2011)<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Dedicated to the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers (now Afghan Peace Volunteers) <a href=\"http:\/\/ourjourneytosmile.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/ourjourneytosmile.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F15188797\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><a href=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Capture-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7743 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Capture-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Capture-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Capture-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Capture-1-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Capture-1.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>LISTEN AND LEARN MORE HERE ON <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/smoyle\/nonviolence-they-choose-for\">SOUNDCLOUD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>So many fathers are gone, lost to the fighting<\/p>\n<p>What can they do? What can children do?<\/p>\n<p>But work so hard to survive in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>* Guns, bombs, grenades, soulless machines<\/p>\n<p>What can they do? What can they do?<\/p>\n<p>Nonviolence they choose for Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>* Threatened by those with fear in their hearts<\/p>\n<p>What can they do? What can they do?<\/p>\n<p>But risk their lives for the peace in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>* The land is degraded to dust and sand<\/p>\n<p>What can they do? What can they do?<\/p>\n<p>But nurture the life of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>* Send them our light<\/p>\n<p>Send them our hope<\/p>\n<p>Send them our love<\/p>\n<p>Send them the strength to carry on<\/p>\n<p>* Nearly all trust is gone, broken by fear<\/p>\n<p>What can they do? What can they do?<\/p>\n<p>But stand bravely with love in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>* Their courage and faith speak to us all<\/p>\n<p>What can we do? What can we do?<\/p>\n<p>But stand up for peace in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>What can we do? What can we do?<\/p>\n<p>No more war in our name in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>* Let them send us their light<\/p>\n<p>Send us their hope<\/p>\n<p>Send us their love<\/p>\n<p>Send us the strength to carry on&#8230;. *<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ll send them our light<\/p>\n<p>Send them our hope<\/p>\n<p>Send them our love<\/p>\n<p>Send them the strength to carry on.<\/p>\n<p>* La, la etc.<\/p>\n<p>Nonviolence they choose for Afghanistan Nonviolence they ask for Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0Anita\u00a0McKone (11 March 2011) Dedicated to the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers (now Afghan Peace Volunteers) http:\/\/ourjourneytosmile.com LISTEN AND LEARN MORE HERE ON SOUNDCLOUD Lyrics: So many fathers are gone, lost to the fighting What can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,51,5,85,43,122,48],"tags":[260,661,285,245],"class_list":["post-7742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-child-rights","category-geography","category-human-rights","category-human-rights-online-library","category-politics","category-war-and-peace","tag-afghanistan-peace-process","tag-child-victims","tag-children-and-war","tag-childrens-rights","country-afghanistan","Documents-statements-multimedia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8063,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions\/8063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}