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.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Guest blogger Annette Rondano is a small business owner and single mother of two in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I call on the women of the world to unite and create One Decade of International Women’s Rule. Ten years is all we will need to make the world livable again. Our priorities would look like a mother’s [...]
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Peace, Mothers throughout the world, How blessed we are to communicate today and join our spirits in the true spirit of the day – “Disarm!” Though I am unable to come to D.C., it is such a comfort to gather with you here at the Ocean Mother’s edge in Cambria, California. I will spend the day [...]
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
While I was being tackled by security guards at Washington’s Convention Center during the AIPAC conference for unfurling a banner that asked “What about Gaza?,” my heart was aching. I wasn’t bothered so much by the burly guards who were yanking my arms behind by back and dragging me-along with 5 other CODEPINK members-out of [...]
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Women know that war is SO over. We know it in our hearts, in our guts, in our wombs. We know that the madness in Iraq and Afghanistan has to end, that we cannot keep sending our children to kill the children of mothers across the globe. Last month at an appearance in Turkey, President [...]
Monday, April 20, 2009
From http://www.brusselstribunal.org/SouadAlAzzawi_Numbers.htm Six years into the occupation… - 72 months of destruction - $607 Billions spent on the war - 2 Million Barrels of oil being sold per day - 2 Million Displaced Iraqis inside of Iraq - 3 Million Iraqis forced to leave the country - 2615 professors, scientists, and doctors killed in cold blood - 338 dead journalists - $13 Billion misplaced by [...]
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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