Posted in Art and Activism, Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Poetry, U.S. empire, Women's Lives on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jewish-American Women Speak Out Against the Occupation
Whole World Press
Spring 2010
Edited by Osie Gabriel Adelfang
with an introduction by Cindy Sheehan and a forward by Amira Hass
Including contributions from:
Anna Baltzar
Maia Ettinger
Susan Greene
Linda Dittmar
Osie Gabriel Adelfang
Hannah Mermelstein
Tomi Laine Clark
Starhawk
Alice Rothchild
Jen Marlowe
Hedy Epstein
Kim Goldberg
Sandra Butler
Emma Rosenthal
On facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shifting-Sands-Jewish-American-Women-Speak-Out-Against-the-Occupation/117315474206?ref=ts
On the web: http://www.osieonline.com/Home_Page.html
“I applaud Osie Gabriel Adelfang and all those [...]
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Posted in Women's Lives on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The problem isn’t that we don’t know what is wrong. The problem is that we fail to
act — or to speak out — even when we do.”
Published on Friday, October 30, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
Savagery and Silence in the First World
by Sandy Leon Vest
In America — in my country — I fear we are losing [...]
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THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACCESS LIES WITH THE EVENT PLANNERS. IT IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL ATTENDING THE EVENT.
The issue of disability rights is often either ignored within the larger human rights dialogue or treated with outright hostility. Too often events are either held in inaccessible locations, or the way space is used, in [...]
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“I am the only one here because I cannot go home- you are all being deported home, I am denied home”
-Laila el Haddad
Laila el Haddad’s Update
from twitter.com/gazamom
After 36 hours of being held at Cairo Airport, where she was repeatedly
interrogated and given contradictory information as to what would
happen, Laila el Haddad and her two children are now [...]
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Posted in Advisory Board, Afghan Women's Mission, Afghanistan, Cafe Intifada Advisory Board, Calling out neo-liberalism, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, U.S. empire, Women's Lives on April 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Sonali Kolhatkar serves on the Advisory Board of Cafe Intifada
Published on Monday, April 6, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
Trading Afghan Women’s Rights for Political Power
New Afghan Law Comes as No Surprise: Women’s Rights Have Always Been Traded for Political Power
by Sonali Kolhatkar
The proposed new Afghan law requiring (among other things), women to have sex with their husbands [...]
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What follows is my post to the dopex activist list, after one member of the list made a series of unsubstantiated personal attacks against women on the list, myself in particular. It’s a pattern I’ve seen often; men, fight man to man, but resort to personal attacks when confronted with debating a woman. The flaming [...]
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Sonali Kolhatkar serves on the Advisory Board of Cafe Intifada
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May 29th, 2008, Thursday 7:30 pm Golden Eagle Building, 3rd Floor Ballroom At Cal State LA!
Moderated by SONALI KOLHATKAR of KPFK 90.7 FM and “Afghan Women’s Mission”
Speakers Include:
RAED JARRAR, an Iraqi political analyst and consultant to American Friends Service Committee’s/Iraq Program currently based in Washington, D.C. After the [...]
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SUNDAY MAY 11
10:30 – 11:30 am
A Mother’s Day talk by Afghan Women’s Mission Co-Director, Sonali Kolhatkar about “The Lives of Afghan Women.” Kolhatkar will address how US policy has affected Afghan women, before and during the US occupation of Afghanistan. She will also offer solutions on what Americans can do to end the war.
LOCATION: Sepulveda [...]
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Afghanistan’s fiercest critic of the warlords, Malalai Joya, returns to the US for a brief visit. She will be addressing students and antiwar activists.
In May 2007, Joya was kicked out of Parliament for comparing the warlords to animals in a zoo in a TV interview. Thousands of Afghans protested across the [...]
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