Comments on: Day 4: Meeting ministers and looking toward the future http://codepink4peace.org/blog/2009/10/day-4-meeting-ministers-and-looking-toward-the-future/ the Personal is Political Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:48:48 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: xan joi http://codepink4peace.org/blog/2009/10/day-4-meeting-ministers-and-looking-toward-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2259 xan joi Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:22:20 +0000 http://codepink4peace.org/blog/?p=2382#comment-2259 So beautiful this Afghan perspective and reasoning, so beautiful to hear the words and thoughts so different from western thought and words: so intelligent, so kind even simple yet the lesson is so deep, so plain to see yet unseen before the story. It is also very distressing to see the solution framed by male dominant thinking: either more troops or more soldiers. We know what this is: it doesn't really matter if oppression is perpetuated and maintained by soldiers or troops, it is still oppression. And it still insures male violence subjugating women and directing life. Why not pursue women dominated solutions? And the same as we need to pursue here. Disarm EVERYONE. Provide basic needs for EVERYONE. No one can have more than another until everyone has everything one needs. Why not call for the removal of anyone who has participated in violence against life? Why do we keep participating in perpetuating male violence? I know, we say this is impossible, it's always been this way, it will always be this way. I do not know if the first two are really true, NO ONE REALLY knows - we only know what those men in power have convinced us is true. I do know that latter will be true as long as we believe it and allow ourselves to work towards it. So beautiful this Afghan perspective and reasoning, so beautiful to hear the words and thoughts so different from western thought and words: so intelligent, so kind even simple yet the lesson is so deep, so plain to see yet unseen before the story.

It is also very distressing to see the solution framed by male dominant thinking: either more troops or more soldiers.

We know what this is: it doesn’t really matter if oppression is perpetuated and maintained by soldiers or troops, it is still oppression. And it still insures male violence subjugating women and directing life.

Why not pursue women dominated solutions? And the same as we need to pursue here. Disarm EVERYONE. Provide basic needs for EVERYONE. No one can have more than another until everyone has everything one needs.

Why not call for the removal of anyone who has participated in violence against life? Why do we keep participating in perpetuating male violence?

I know, we say this is impossible, it’s always been this way, it will always be this way.

I do not know if the first two are really true, NO ONE REALLY knows – we only know what those men in power have convinced us is true.

I do know that latter will be true as long as we believe it and allow ourselves to work towards it.

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