Eight years have passed since Laura Bush declared that "because of our recent military gains, women are no longer imprisoned in their homes" in Afghanistan. For eight years, that claim has been a lie. The fact is that life for women in Afghanistan has gotten worse since the Taliban were removed from power.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
On AlterNet here this morning, Sonali Kolhatkar, the host and producer of Uprising Radio and co-director of the Afghan Women’s Mission, a U.S. nonprofit that funds health, educational and training projects for Afghan women, and Mariam Rawi, a member of the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan working under a pseudonym, write this insightful critique [...]
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
See Jane Do, a rockin’ mama media duo from California, joined CODEPINK on Mother’s Day in DC to highlight the stories of the many amazing women who were standing vigil together. They caught up with Sweeta Noori, Afghanistan country director of Women for Women International, to talk with her about why she left Afghanistan (temporarily) [...]
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Afghanistan has a CEO and his name is Zalmay Khalilzad. He is the man behind the mujahideen and “conducted risk analyses for Unocal” at the time that Unocal was engaging the Taliban on the construction of an oil and gas pipeline through Afghanistan. Sonali Kolhatkar, co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of [...]
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
And we say, “no kidding.” Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was quoted in an AP report yesterday as saying,”We cannot succeed … in Afghanistan by killing Afghan civilians”. While he stays tight-lipped about the disastrous unmanned drones, he goes on to say that it will take at least 2 YEARS [...]
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Check out Elsa Rassbach’s interview with “Zoya” of the Foreign Committee of Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). Elsa is a US citizen and activist who’s lived in Germany for the past eighteen years. She’s a founding member of American Voices Abroad Military Project and of the German affiliate of the War Resisters’ [...]
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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