Fly a Kite for Afghan Women

"This Mother's Day, Amnesty [International] is inviting you to write a message of solidarity for Afghan women. We'll put it on a kite -- kite flying is a popular pastime in Afghanistan -- and fly it during the NATO Summit in Chicago, May 20-21, where President Obama and Afghan President Karzai will be discussing Afghanistan's transition."



To President Obama and President Karzai meeting in Chicago on May 20, 2012 without a single Afghan woman at the table 


I am shouting but you don’t answer—
One day you’ll look for me and I’ll be gone from this world.

      Zarmina, a landai


The pay phone is ringing, ringing—
For love, yet another woman has set herself on fire.

Comments

Ms. said…
BRAVO JEE
O'm stealing this shamelessly to repost at my site in a compendium of MOTHERHOOD references Saturday, also known as passing it along. Thank you.
Jee Leong said…
The landai comes from a New York Magazine article by Eliza Griswold about Aghan women poets.

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