Tag Archives: Afghanistan

Rethink Afghanistan

Renee remin­ded me of this with a clip she pos­ted.
Brave New Films has part­ne­red with RAWA, to help Afghans dis­pla­ced by US war, focu­sing on what is really hap­pe­ning in Afgha­nis­tan as a result of US policy. The part­nership is to pro­vide direct aid to dis­pla­ced peo­ple living in des­pe­rate con­di­tions in suburbs of …

July 10, 2009 – 1:28 am | By cooper | Posted in Politics, Society, Women, human rights, liberty | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Dear President Obama

Now that Netroots Nation has sol­ved the coun­tries pro­blems I’d like to address Sena­tor Obama.
If at the end of this see­mingly infi­nite elec­tion you are vic­to­rious and decide to go finish the job we left undone in Afgha­nis­tan  —  as you allu­ded to recently in your mee­ting with Pre­si­dent Hamid Kar­zai, pled­ging “stead­fast aid” and all
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July 20, 2008 – 8:15 pm | By cooper | Posted in Politics | Tagged , , , | Comments (11)

Dirty water — Dirty Death — Dirty tee — shirts. No contest.

While we lament over the “horror” of tee­nage girls wea­ring Aberc­rom­bie and Finch tee-shirts, because god knows the shirts might send “detri­men­tal mes­sa­ges” to tee­nage girls or others,while there is some stuff going on that is of real sig­ni­fi­cance.
Con­ti­nued honor killings in Afgha­nis­tan.
Mukh­tar Mai  –  A Pakis­tani Rape Vic­tim con­ti­nues to blog at the …

September 29, 2006 – 1:19 am | By cooper | Posted in Women, activism, feminism, human rights, liberty | Tagged , , , | Comments (11)