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Violence Against Women in Afghanistan: Documenting Prevalence, Organizing for Change

Opening pomegranates. Arghand soap cooperative, Kandahar, Afghanistan. photo: © www.Sarahchayes.net
Authors: Diya Nijhowne Lauryn Oates

Summary:

62% of women surveyed survived multiple forms of violence.

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US Soldier Refuses Deployment to Afghanistan: CO Declares War "Flat-Out Murder"

Authors: Sarah Lazare

Summary:

I won't go.

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Poppies for Medicine in Afghanistan: A Potential Balm for Numerous Ills

Opium poppies, Aryu, Panjshir province, Afghanistan, August 12, 2008. photo: Chuck Holton, http://flickr.com/photos/rangerholton/2757355468/
Authors: Metta Spencer

Summary:

Don't eradicate poppies. Use them to relieve pain.

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Alternatives to the War in Afghanistan: Don't Escalate the War -- Pull Troops Out

This picture from a U.S. court martial file, drawn by military polygraph examiner George Chigi III, shows how Afghan detainee Dilawar was shackled by his wrists to the ceiling of an isolation cell at Bagram Air Base before being beaten to death in Decembe
Authors: Joseph Gerson

Summary:

Peace is negotiated between enemies.

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Ten Ways To End the Occupation of Afghanistan: Inform, Educate, Agitate, Organize

Protesters of the war in Afghanistan collect blankets for Afghanistan refugees at Boston City Hall Plaza, November 8, 2001. Over 75,000 blankets were collected and sent within four months. photo: © Ellen Shub
Authors: maTT De Vleger

Summary:

To organize, we need to inform ourselves and share what we learn.

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Afghan Parliamentarian Confronts War: Malalai Joya Risks Her Life to Speak for Human Rights

Joya with the Politkovskaya award, October 6, 2008. photo: AfghanKabul
Authors: Sam Diener

Summary:

Despite death threats and attacks, I will not stop telling the truth.

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Building on Afghanistan's Traditions of Peacemaking: An Interview with Abdul Aziz Yaqubi

Authors: Abdul Aziz Yaqubi

Summary:

We're caught between warlords, drug lords, the government, international armies, and the Taliban.

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The US War in Afghanistan: A Primer for US Peace Activists

Engineer clearing a land-mine in Afghanistan, 2007. photo: UN Photo/UNMACA
Authors: Alexandra Cooper Jesse Laird Kelly Campbell Madelyn Hoffman

Summary:

The death toll is rising.

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Authors: Sam Diener

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Peace and Permits in Al Aqaba: A Palestinian Village Seeks Security in Area C

Authors: Haj Sami Sadik

Summary:The Israeli Army Civil Authority declares the130 Palestinian villages in Area C as "unrecognized," making residents lawbreakers just by living in their homes.

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