We began at the offices of the ROSE magazine. A magazine just for women that is funded by an Afghan-French woman. It covers practical life, politics and culture. The chief editor is a man because women can't do what is needed because of security and problems with the government. When we heard that we were concerned that the material would not be interesting, but we opened up to a piece on how AIDS hits women harder than men in Afghanistan and an article called "Where is the First Lady?" So Medea quit rolling her eyes.
On our first full day out into Kabul, I saw an old woman being dragged across the street by two men. One of our delegates said she thought she saw the men kick the clearly resisting woman. This happened only a few blocks away from our meeting with Women for Women International, where they said if they would have seen the altercation they would have intervened.
I figured out what makes the birds sing throughout the night—it is the call to prayer. But at 4am, after going to bed at 3:30, it is not so charming anymore. Sara moved her room because she was getting no sleep. However, in the late afternoon after spending all day in the dust of Kabul, [...]
(Kabul) It’s hard to believe the access and diversity of meetings that our 9-person delegation has had in the past few days! Little wonder our heads are spinning. We met with heads of women’s organizations and women who are learning new skills from literacy to business classes. We were briefed by UN reps and international [...]
The folks over at Media Matters captured this outrageous clip from the Glenn Beck Program this week. In it, substitute host Joe Pagliarulo gives his “expert” analysis on Afghanistan: We had a decision to make from the very start of this thing in November of 2001. And that decision was, do we go all Japan [...]
Saturday, October 3, 2009
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