This document: Is for anyone in the global community wanting to help Afghans on the ground, legal aid resources in a few countries for those attempting to or helping others leave, actionable scripts to lobby US congressional officials. If you have additions, please request edit access with your additions in-message. Update 8.24.2021

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GOVERNMENT ADVOCACY

Congressional Committee Call Script - This document is an attempt to centralize contact information and demands for US politicians regarding Afghanistan.

Congressional Advocacy Script - Calling and petitioning congressional representatives based on your district

Text Crisis to 52886

Local advocacy tactics: This chapter describes the nuts and bolts of implementing four advocacy tactics to put pressure on your three Members of Congress (MoCs) — your Representative and two Senators.

FINANCIAL AID

List of Afghan charities

Fundraiser for basic necessities

Cash in hand relief

Asylum Seekers Fund

Funds for Humanitarian Parole applications

RAFFLES/FUNDRAISERS

Avah Collective - Print sale announcing soon

RELOCATION / LEGAL INFO

Aggregated immigration relief doc

CANADA:

Refugee resettlement program info: recently expanded to include human rights defenders [activists, women and highly visible leaders]

→ email canada-afghanistan@international.gc.ca with required personal info, highlighting role as a human rights defender or anyone who has worked with the government of Canada

Group of 5 - A Group of Five (G5) is five or more Canadian citizens or permanent residents who have arranged to sponsor a refugee living abroad to come to Canada.

UNITED STATES:

Humanitarian Parole: Humanitarian parole is a pathway for entry to the United States for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit. It is usually granted when someone has no other alternatives for entry and is typically a last option.

US Committee on Refugees Information page (with contact emails)

Information on the P2 Visa for Afghan nationals

Artistic Freedom Initiative: “AFI’s Legal Services for At-Risk Artists program is designed to facilitate pro bono immigration services for at-risk artists fleeing persecution or censorship in their countries of origin.”

Visas for Afghans: General

INFORMATION RESOURCES

List of actions @bushra_ebadi

A call to American journalists

Afghan Diaspora Hub

A collated guide on instagram

WEB SECURITY

Digital security protocol

Backpack by UC Davis: For Afghan students to secure their educational materials stored on cloud-based servers administered and protected by the university

RECOMMENDED READINGS from AAAWA

EDITORIALS:

Ebtikar, Munazza. 2020. A Critique of Knowledge Production About Afghanistan, Afghanistan Center at Kabul University

Olomi, Ali A. 2021. The U.S. Replicated Crucial Flaws from the Past in Afghanistan, The Washington Post

Osman, Wazhmah. 2021. The History of the Taliban in Afghanistan, NPR

Hanifi, Shah Mahmoud. 2021. “Quandaries of the Afghan Nation.” In Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands. Crews, Robert and Shahzad Bashir, eds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

BOOKS:

Manchanda, Nivi. 2020. Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Osman, Wazhmah. 2020. Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists. Urbana (IL): University of Illinois Press.

Bose, Purnima. 2020. Intervention Narratives: Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Crews, Robert. 2015. Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.