Afghanistan

With the New Year and the situation globally changing, I have tried to look at how the US strategy is affecting countries other than Afghanistan.
-- Tilly Sheridan

Crisis bulletin from War Resisters' International

1) Anti-war vigils Sunday 11 November 2) Teach-ins/public meetings Saturday 10 November Please forward this email to local groups.

ARROW (Active Resistance to the Roots of War), a London-based nonviolent direct action group, is calling for groups around the UK and around the world to hold anti-war vigils on 11 November 2001 to oppose the war against Afghanistan, to call for "food not bombs for Afghanistan", and to oppose any widening of the war to other countries.

Letter to a Member of Parliament

Mr Christopher Leslie
House of Commons
Whitehall,
London SW1

Dear Mr Leslie,

Peace Movement sounds the alarm: No military Europe

While the leaders of the governement are building up their intervention army, hundreds of people put together a wooden wall against a military Europe. On wooden boards they paint their message for Europe's leaders: Stop the war, we don't want a military Europe. The guys of Komilfoo, Luc De Vos (Gorki) Mong and many others hearten them with their live songs.

War Is the Problem, Not the Solution
Statement on Attacks on Afghanistan New York, New York
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 12, 2001

On Sunday, October 7, without a declaration of war from Congress, George W. Bush took the United States to war, sending out bombs and missiles against Afghanistan, a country that had not attacked us. Those acts demand sober reflection and a careful examination of the facts and of the courses open to a more responsible administration than the one nominally headed by Bush.

After the communist government fell in 1992 civil war continued between different factions of the former Mujaheddin resistance. Since 1992 different parts of the country have been ruled by different armed groups and local commanders; effective central government is consequently lacking. In September 1996 the capital Kabul was seized by the Taleban, which ever since has been considered the government of Afghanistan and controls approximately 75 percent of the country.