5.07 countering sexism and promoting feminism

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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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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A Community Stands with its Military Women: Vigilers Grieve Four Murders in Nine Months

Fort Bragg, NC, October 8, 2008. Former army Captain Michael McPhearson, now executive Director of Veterans for Peace, joins a vigil at the gates of the Fort Bragg military base for four women killed locally by military men over the preceding nine months.
Authors: Ann Wright

Summary:Because the preventive action being taken by the military is not enough, 40 women and men from around North Carolina and the nation stood at the Fort Bragg entrance gate to commemorate the deaths and call for action to prevent any others.

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From Hermitage to Heritage: Del Martin's Declaration of Lesbian Pride, 1956

Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Boston Chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, Nov 20, 1994. Photo: © Ellen Shub
Authors: Del Martin

Summary:

The solidarity of a cooperative front can replace a tight fist of security.

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Celebrating the Co-Mother of Lesbian Feminism: Del Martin: May 5, 1921 -- August 27, 2008

Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Boston Chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, Nov 20, 1994. Photo: © Ellen Shub
Authors: Kate Kendall

Summary:

She had the courage to be herself when the world offered only condemnation.

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Principles for Feminist Leadership: Struggling to Share Power

Authors: Michelle Williams

Summary:

When we become so afraid of conflict that we stop challenging, we take power away from our organization.

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The Tyranny of Tyranny

Homeless women at St. Patrick's shelter in Somerville MA protest against Catholic Charities cancelling onsite HIV/AIDS education programs and access to condoms, as well as the firing of the program director, Gayle Basten, November 16, 1991. Photo: © Ellen
Authors: Cathy Levine

Summary:

Small groups aren't the problem. They're the solution.

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