{"id":25749,"date":"2011-07-07T02:52:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T06:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25749"},"modified":"2011-07-07T03:03:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T07:03:06","slug":"words-and-slogans-are-more-important-then-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25749","title":{"rendered":"Words and slogans are more important then action."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One group that I have been following by the name of<a href=\"http:\/\/ourjourneytosmile.com\/blog\/\" title=\"ourjourneytosmile's\">&#8220;Journey to Smiles&#8221;<\/a> . When I first started to watch them I had some hope that it may turn into something useful. But as of the past year or two, all they produce is Hallmark type videos with cliches and naive slogans.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5y8bRK5-dM0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now it is full fledged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ourjourneytosmile#p\/a\/u\/1\/dkiMOPoU1qA\">propaganda.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We send you our love through our friends on the US Boat to Gaza sailing with the Freedom Flotilla 2.<br \/>\nA fortnight ago, there appeared a remote possibility that two of us would be considered for travel on the Mavi Marmara. It gripped us that we may have been able to share each other&#8217;s pain at a closer distance, for a little while. The people of Mavi Marmara and the other flotilla boats have opened up the seas of our hearts. <strong>Afghanistan needs a flotilla too, but you would know that Afghanistan has no sea. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We imagine the blue seas. Imagination helps friends not to worry about whether they&#8217;re available for each other ALL the time, or whether they will ever see each other face-to-face.<\/p>\n<p>20-year-old Skye Miller was our friend for a brief moment, introduced to us by <strong>Kathy Kelly<\/strong>, one of our dear activist friends on the US Boat to Gaza. Skye was dying from cancer in a hospice and Kathy had passed her a blue scarf from our silent, peace walk in Kabul this spring.<\/p>\n<p>We sent a message to Skye, &#8216;Mohammad Jan, Abdulai and I are typing this email feeling a sadness, and feeling that life must be more than just what we see. It is meaningful for us to give you our small &#8216;salams&#8217; through Kathy and through the visions of peace colored in blue. Thank you Skye! &#8216;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not to be out done Rethink Afghanistan is claiming that it is gaining ground that three Senators are calling for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/rethink-afghanistan\/get-out-three-senators-call-for-troop-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-by-end-of-2012\/214702721906778\">withdraw of Afghanistan<\/a>. They even have a Republican. But it kinda loses it impact once you see it is Rand Paul.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The senators are right. We need that money here at home, not wasted on a war that drags out for another 3 years. Get them home!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once again it is all about the money and the troops a after thought. But he slogans sound nice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One group that I have been following by the name of&#8220;Journey to Smiles&#8221; . When I &hellip; <a title=\"Words and slogans are more important then action.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25749\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Words and slogans are more important then action.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,43,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-code-pink","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}