How
you can help the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers: Help Afghan
Youth Peace Volunteers Get Their Visas to Visit U.S.
The Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers have applied for visas to come
to the States to speak about their work at schools and churches,
but so far the visas have been denied by the Obama
administration. Here are steps you can take:
1. Urge your elected representatives to send a letter urging the
U.S. Embassy to reconsider their decision. Contact your
representative and senators here:
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Email ralphlopez AT hotmail DOT com for more details if you have a
representative interested in supporting AYPV. The more elected
representatives that send letters, the greater the chance that the
U.S. Embassy will reverse their visa denial.
2. Call and write the White House to allow the Afghan Youth
Peace Volunteers to get visas.
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Please include your e-mail address
Phone Numbers
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461
Also post to the
White House
Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/WhiteHouse
3. Contact Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and demand the
reversal of the State Department's decision
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Main Switchboard:
202-647-4000
CONTACT
FORM
Refer the officials to the AYPV website, here:
http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog
Also please, if you can, forward a copy of your
message to ralphlopez AT hotmail DOT com so that we can
track the campaign and deliver your messages en masse. Thank
you!
Finally, the exit of American troops in Afghanistan should leave
Afghans with something in the form of reparations for the decade
of neglect of the reconstruction in favor of making brutal
war. The equivalent of one month of military spending should
be placed in trust for the honest and competent
Afghan National
Solidarity Program, run by Afghans, for Afghans.
Please
help us lobby for this.
More information on reconstruction at
JobsForAfghans.org