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From: Bonnie Hutchins (bonnie.hutchins@ces.uwex.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 09:53:28 EDT
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While I certainly share in the horror of this treatment, I can't use a work 
computer to sign.  Sorry.

At 08:58 PM 10/10/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>As a woman that I very much admire, I am sending you this description of the
>Taliban's treatment of woman with the hope that you will be as outraged as I
>was at what is going on in Afghanistan. If you don't believe it is actually
>happening, I encourage you to watch "Beneath The Veil"on CNN.
>We must each raise our voice to end this and other similarly horrific
>situations.
>
>
>Dear friends:
>
>If you decide not to forward this, please send it back to me. This is an
>actual petition, and "signatures" will be lost if you drop the line.
>Please take 3 minutes out of your life to do your part. And be sure to
>include other members of your household who are willing to sign.
>
>Oprah recently had a show about this atrocity and it was heartbreaking.
>Madhu, the government of Afghanistan, is waging a war upon women.
>Since the Taliban took power in 1996, women have had to wear burqua and
>have been beaten and stoned in public for not having the proper attire, even
>
>if this means simply not having the mesh covering in front of their eyes.
>One
>woman was beaten to death by an angry mob of fundamentalists for
>accidentally exposing her arm(!) while she was driving. Another was stoned
>to death for trying to leave the country with a man that was not a
>relative. Women are not allowed to work or even go out in public without a
>male relative; professional women such as professors, translators,
>doctors, lawyers, artists and writers have been forced from their jobs and
>restricted to their homes.
>
>Homes where a woman is present must have their windows painted so that
>she can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear silent shoes so that
>they are never heard. Women live in fear of their lives for the slightest
>misbehavior.  Because they cannot work, those without male relatives or
>husbands are either starving to death or begging in the street, even if
>they hold Ph.D.'s. Depression is becoming so widespread that it has
>reached emergency levels.
>
>There is no way in such an extreme Islamic society to know the suicide
>rate with certainty, but relief workers are estimating that the suicide
>rate among women must be extraordinarily high: those who cannot find
>proper medication and treatment for severe depression and would rather
>take their lives than live in such conditions.  At one of the rare
>hospitals for women, a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies lying
>motionless on top of beds, wrapped in their burqua, unwilling to speak,
>eat, or do anything, but slowly wasting away.  Others have gone mad and
>were seen crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or crying, most of them
>in fear. When what little medication that is left finally runs out, one
>doctor is considering leaving these women in front of the president's
>residence as a form of protest.  This country also has the highest
>mortality rate in the world for women in childbirth and the highest infant
>mortality rate.  If Osama bin Labin has done nothing else he has raised
>the world's awareness of these women.
>
>
>It is at the point where the term "human rights violations" has become an
>understatement. Husbands have the power of life and death over their
>women relatives, especially their wives, but an angry mob has just as much
>right to stone or beat a woman, often to death, for exposing an inch of
>flesh
>or offending them in the slightest way.  Women enjoyed relative freedom: to
>work, to dress generally as they wanted, and to drive and appear in public
>alone until only 1996.  The rapidity of this transition is the main reason
>for the depression and suicide.  Women who were once educators or
>doctors or simply used to basic human freedoms are now severely
>restricted and treated as subhuman in the name of right-wing fundamentalist
>Islam. It is not their tradition or 'culture', but it is alien to them, and
>it is
>extreme even for those cultures where fundamentalism is the rule.
>
>Everyone has a right to a tolerable human existence, even if they are
>women in a Muslim country.  If we can threaten military force in Kosovo
>the name of human rights for the sake of ethnic Albanians,  citizens of
>the world can certainly express peaceful outrage at the oppression, murder
>and injustice committed against women by the Taliban.
>
>
>STATEMENT: In signing this, we agree that the current treatment of
>women in Afghanistan is completely UNACCEPTABLE and deserves action
>by the United Nations and that the current situation overseas will not be
>tolerated.
>
>Women's Rights is not a small issue anywhere, and it is UNACCEPTABLE
>for women in 2001 to be treated as subhuman and as so much property.
>Equality and human decency is a fundamental RIGHT, not a freedom to
>be granted, whether one lives in Afghanistan or elsewhere.
>
> >1) Gillian D. Black, Daly City, CA, USA
> >2) Mariam Nayiny, Palo Alto, CA, USA
> >3) Sunaina Gulati-Ruh, Palo Alto, CA USA
> >4) Megan McCaslin, Palo Alto, CA USA
> >5) Blake Hallanan, San Francisco, Ca. USA
> >6) Kit Henderson, Sacramento, CA USA
> >7) Kara Myers, San Francisco, CA
> >8) Ellen Tilden, San Francisco, CA
> >9) Vanessa Ross, San Francisco, CA
> >10) Jenna Shaw- Battista, San Francisco, CA
> >11) Jeanne Racik, B!erkeley, CA
> >12) Julie Silas, Oakland, CA
> >13) Renee Longstreet, Tarzana, CA
> >14) Susan Johnson, Encino, CA
> >15) Kenneth Johnson, Encino, CA
> >16) Terri Treas, Los Angeles, CA
> >17) Amy Retzinger, North Hollywood, CA
> >18) Babette Crooms, Los Angeles, CA
> >19) Olivia Kienzel; Santa Barbara, CA
> >20) Sean Dexheimer, Los Angeles, CA
> >21) Elio Chavez, Jr., Pasadena, CA
> >22) Gregory Kastigar, Los Angeles, CA
> >23) Robert Collie, Los Angeles, CA
> >24) Jeff Garvin, Brea, CA
> >25) Trice Allen, Sherman Oaks, CA
> >26) Joleen Nordstrom ~ Hollywood, CA
> >27) Theresa Donahoe - Martinez,CA
> >28) Jennifer Horn - Concord, CA
> >29) Roxanne Ryan - Alamo, CA
> >30) Miriam Tyler- San Jose CA
> >31) John Burns- San Jose CA
> >32) Kristin Lynn Minick- Fort Worth TX
> >33) Jeff Neal- Marietta, GA
> >34) Anna Neal- Marietta, GA
> >35) Frances Murley-Fort Worth, TX
> >36) David Murley-London, England, UK
> >37) Jillian Dykhouse, Colleyville, TX
> >38) Bonnie Dykhouse,Colleyville,TX
> >39) Nancy Williams, Colleyville, TX
> >40) Georgene Farr, Sterling Heights, MI
> >41) Joanne Arensberg, Riverview, MI
> >42) Luann Ouellette, Vermillion, SD
> >43) Sandie Sullivan, Vermillion, SD
> >44) Troy Nelson, Minneapolis, MN USA
> >45) Joseph Miller, Minneapolis, MN USA
> >46) Kathleen Miller, White Bear Lake, MN USA
> >47) Jerry Marquis, Mpls. Mn. USA
> >48) Julie Stokes, Coon Rapids, MN USA
> >49) Tracy Ford, Blaine, MN USA
> >50) Sheila Lawrence, Monticello, MN USA
> >51) Brenda Kitchen, Westlake Village, Calif!ornia,USA
> >52) Teresa Burke, Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
> >53) Bruce Ehrlich, Sherman Oaks, CA USA
> >54) Yllania Francis, Los Angeles, CA USA
> >55) Drew Hedin, Los Angeles, CA USA
> >56) Laura Paridon, Laguna Woods, CA USA
> >57) Jeanie Hagedorn, Des Moines, IA USA
> >58) Sue Christensen, Des Moines, IA USA
> >59) Sybil Finken, Glenwood, IA USA
> >60) Luke Finken, Earth
> >61) Doug Gerace, Lincoln, NE USA
> >62) Cheryl Gerace, NE
> >63) Sheri Lew, CO
> >64) Raven Grace, Boulder, CO
> >65) Martha M.Mertz, EL, Michigan
> >66) Colleen R. Cooper, Okemos, Michigan
> >67) Barbara J. Sawyer-Koch, East Lansing, MI
> >68) Margaret A. Meyers, Okemos, Michigan
> >69) Mary Helen Espes, Okemos, Michigan
> >70) Maureen Kirchhoff, Allenspark, CO
> >71) Bart Johnson, Err, France
> >72) Sharon!O'Connor, Olympia, WA USA
> >73) Nancy Irving, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
> >74) Martha Lindley, Seattle, WA, USA
> >75) Judith Alexander, Woodinville, WA, USA
> >76) Arlene B. Hawkinson, Seattle, WA, USA
> >77) Christine E. Mobley, Bothell, WA, USA
> >78) Trudie Breen, CA, USA
> >79) Catherine Standiford, CA, USA
> >80) Beverly Truett, AZ, USA
> >81) Christine Meehan,AZ,USA
> >82) Janice Gilbert, Valley Center, CA, USA
> >83) Dawna Upchurch, Anchorage, AK USA
> >84) Roxanna Groves, Olympia, WA USA
> >85) Lynda Lynde, Helena, MT USA
> >86) Constance Gelu, University Place, WA USA
> >87) Jodi Woolett, Tacoma, WA USA
> >88) Lisa I. Reeves- Lynden, WA USA
> >89) Amanda James-Bow, WA USA
> >90) Kelli J. Smith, New Port Richey, FL USA
> >91) Chris Poirier, Largo, Fl USA
> >92) Mike Carpenter, Palmetto, Fl USA
> >93) Alice Pryor, Melbourne FL USA
> >94) Ellen Catano, Manchester NH USA
> >95) Bevely Jennings, Cincinnati OH USA
> >96) Linda Feely, Norwood,OH USA
> >97) Sherry Stidham, Norwood OH USA
> >98) Brittany Brown, Cincinnati OH USA
> >99) Sandy Brown, Cincinnati, Oh USA
> >100) Tim Brown, Cincinnati, OH USA
> >101) Pat Brown, Cincinnati, OH USA
> >102) Amy Cregger, Memphis, TN USA
> >103) Kay Emerick, Logan, OH USA
> >104) Trina Bookman, Logan, OH USA
> >105) Mary Samuelson, St. Louis, Mo USA
> >106) Jeannette Ward, Memphis, TN USA
> >107) Elisabeth Davis, Memphis, Tn USA
> >108) Rose Klimek, Memphis, TN USA
> >109) Barbara K. White, Hoquiam, WA, USA
> >110) Paula J. Eriksen, Palm Harbor, Florida USA
> >111) Rag!nar Eriksen, Palm Harbor, Florida USA
> >112) MARILYN KING, CLEARWATER, FL, USA
> >113) Barbara Stiner,Oldsmar,FL,USA
> >114) Jac'line Weisgerber,Clearwater,FL,USA
> >115) Charlotte Beadles, Douglasville, GA, USA
> >116) Jody Hoadley, Powder Springs, GA, USA
> >117) Hope Howard, Atlanta, GA, USA
> >118) Cliff Howard, Atlanta, GA, USA
> >119) Kay Chicoine, Atlanta, GA USA
> >120) Mark Chicoine, Atlanta, GA USA
> >121) Paula King, Lexington, KY,USA
> >122) Sally Weissman,Minneapolis,Mn,USA
> >123) Susan Abbott, New Brighton, MN USA
> >124) Rachel Fine, St. Louis Park, MN, USA
> >125) Deb Harley,Eden Prairie, MN,Usa
> >126) Barb Handahl,Faribault, MN,USA
> >127) Ann Olson,Chamberlain S.D.USA
> >128) Deb Hunt,Sioux Falls S.D.USA
> >129) Anne Frankman, Sioux Falls, SD USA
> >130) Susie Kostel, Tabor, SD USA
> >131) Julie Anderson, Mount Prospect, IL USA
> >132) Janet Tilden, Fremont, NE USA
> >133) Debbie Bowman, Kingston Springs, TN, USA
> >134) Shari Watkins, Franklin, TN, USA
> >135) Teresa Beck, Columbia, TN USA
> >136) Amy Stephens, Brentwood, TN, USA
> >137) Vicki Warren, Lyles, TN, USA
> >138) Linda Lupo, Westland, MI, USA
> >139) Cathie McClary, Clinton Twp. MI, USA
> >140) Diane Catellane, Clinton Twp. MI, USA
> >141) Judy Mellen, Clarkston, MI, USA
> >142) Donna Waite, Lake Orion, MI, USA
> >143) Ann Acton, South Lyon, MI, USA
> >145) Tami Hall, South Lyon, MI, USA
> >146) Wendy Belsley, South Lyon, MI, USA
> >147) Gretel Coombs, East Lansing, MI, USA
> >148) Mike Jones, Lansing, MI, USA
> >149) Jeff Jones, Atlanta, GA, USA
> >150) Marion Jones, Atlanta, GA , USA
> >151) Pat Scott, Enumclaw, WA, USA
> >152) Bob Panzer, Houston, TX, USA
> >153) Pat Panzer, Houston, TX, USA
> >154) Joe Schwartz, Jacksonville AL USA
> >155) Stefanie Walfield, Fayetteville, NC, USA
> >156) Liz Dunkley, Milledgeville, GA, USA
> >157) Christine Dunkley, Milledgeville, GA, USA
> >156) Mike Dunkley, Milledgeville, GA, USA
> >157) Randy Parsons, Eatonton, Ga.
> >158) Bonita Platner, Kirkwood, NY. USA
> >159) Ralph Platner, Kirkwood, NY. USA
> >160) Charles Lundquist, Binghamton, N.Y. U.S.A.
> >161) Tracy Rowe, Hollywood, CA USA
> >162) Daniel Raphael New York, New York USA
> >163) Ann Brameier, New York, NY USA
> >164) Kazuko Tao, Healdsburg, Ca USA
> >165) Shelley Zavat, Rio Nido, Ca. USA
> >166) Kendall Smith, Fort Bragg, Ca USA
> >167) Candi Zizek, Sacramento, California USA
> >168) Annette Blackwood, West Hartford, CT USA
> >169) Frank Sentner, West Hartford, CT USA
> >170) Behnoosh Behmaram, Avon, CT US
> >171) Pamela McAfee, New Britain CT USA
> >172) Marianne Hebenstreit, New Britain CT USA
> >173) Tami Steveson, Newington, CT USA
> >174) Chenie Bell-Parikh, Philadelphia, PA USA
> >175) Meg Zinda, Boston, MA USA
> >176) Sue Jackson, Dickinson, ND USA
> >177) Cynthia W.. Carson, Atlanta, GA USA
> >178) Katie Shugart, Winston-Salem, NC
> >179) Stephanie Dunnington, Rochester, NY
> >180) Mary Jo Dunnington, New York, NY
> >181) Heather Hopkins, New York, NY
> >182) Lisa Kersey, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
> >183) Jeanne Shingleton, Atlanta, GA, USA
> >184) Annette Kinderman, Birmingham, AL
> >185) Jennifer Mallory Rawl, Columbia, SC
> >186) Tameika C. Isaac, Columbia, SC, USA
> >187) Cassandra Keller, Columbia, SC
> >188) CAMM, Columbia, SC
> >189) Gail Gladden, Columbia, S.C.
> >190) Sandi Chamberlain, Surrey, BC (Canada)
> >191) Lynda McNally Thompson, Mt. Prospect, IL (USA)
> >192) Roy Thompson, Mt. Prospect, IL (USA)
> >193) Sandra Davis Houston, Evanston, Ill. (USA)
> >194) Janet Alexander-Davis, Evanston, IL (USA)
> >195) Janice Moman-Pratt, Evanston, IL (USA)
> >196) Jennifer Lorenz, Chicago, IL (USA)
> >197) Lisa Lupinski, New York, NY (USA)
> >198) Kelly Mortimer, New York, NY
> >199) Lana Grounds, Dallas, TX (USA)
> >200) Christin Scheel, MO (USA)
> >201) Julie Bennett, OKC, OK (USA)
> >202) Jean Hale, OKC, OK (USA)
> >203) Theresa Henrion, OKC, OK (USA)
> >204) Pamela Henrion, Landstuhl, Germany
> >205) Johnita McCorkle, Yukon, Ok (USA)
> >206) Tynette Truax, OH (USA)
> >207) Tara Lamb, WI (USA)
> >208) Cristie Burtz, OH (USA)
> >209) Robert Burtz, OH (USA)
> >210) Patricia Alford, IN (USA)
> >211) John Alford, IN (USA)
> >212) Peter Doffin, IN (USA)
> >213) Angie Cuson IN (USA)
> >214) Roxanna Horton IN (USA)
> >215) Ken Horton IN (USA)
> >216) Daniel T. Cuson IN (USA)
> >217) Mary Anne Wagner
> >218) Dina Varano IN (USA)
> >219) Deborah Harris-Abbott GA (USA)
> >220) Suzanne Mason, Atlanta, GA (USA)
> >221) Robin Thompson, Stone Mountain, GA (USA)
> >222) Sam Thompson, Stone Mountain, GA (USA)
> >223) Amanda Sanders, Chattanooga, TN (USA)
> >224) Daniel Sanders, Chattanooga, TN (USA)
> >225) Charles Gearing, Atlanta, GA (USA)
> >226) Carol Gearing, Atlanta, GA (USA)
> >227) Edwina M. Simpson, Dearborn, MI (USA)
> >228) Bruce H. Simpson, Dearborn, MI (USA)
> >229) Thomas R. Gossen, Wichita, KS (USA)
> >230) Helen R. Betenbaugh, Wichita, KS (USA)
> >231) Elizabeth M. Warren, Dallas, TX (USA)
> >232) Camie Swanson-Hull, Noblesville, IN (USA)
> >233) Bob Anderson, Helena, MT (USA)
> >234) Mark O'Keefe, Helena, MT (USA)
> >235) Jack Kirkley, Dillon, MT (USA
> >236) Lorraine Clough, Butte, MT (USA)
> >237) Margie Ewing, Butte, MT (USA)
> >238) Linda Hastie, Missoula, MT (USA)
> >239) Michael F. Gribben, Butte, MT (USA)
> >240) Richard H. Durnford, Jr, Butte, MT (USA)
> >241) Patricia A. Durnford, Butte, MT (USA)
> >242) Linda Douglas, Butte, MT (USA
> >243) John Douglas, Butte,MT (USA)
> >244) Carol Orr, Butte MT (USA)
> >245) S. Turney; Jacksonville, NC (USA)
> >246)Carole Urbanski, Palatine, IL (USA)
> >247) Joy Entzminger, Arlington Heights, IL (USA)
> >248 Karen Scott, Danburyk, WI (USA)
> >249) Marilyn Gerecke, Minneapolis, MN (USA)
> >250) Warren Gerecke, Minneapolis, MN (USA)
> >251) Diane Waarvik, Minneapolis, MN., USA
> >252) Kristi Kuder, Minneapolis, MN (USA)
> >253) Tom Kuder, Minneapolis, MN (USA)
> >254) Lynn Oehler, Minneapolis, MN (USA)
> >255) Mary Scott, Battle Ground, WA (USA)
> >256) Deborah Du Nann Winter, Walla Walla, WA (USA)
> >257) Sharon Kaufman-Osborn, Walla Walla, WA (USA)
> >258)  Kathy Ketcham, Walla Walla, WA 99362
> >259)  Patrick Spencer, Walla Walla, WA 99362
> > 259) Marilyn Dickinson, Etna, NH, USA
> >260) Kelly Dickinson, Etna, NH, USA
> >261) Rick Dickinson, Etna, NH USA
> >262) Jane Sweet, Minnetonka, MN  USA
> >263) Virginia Slimmer, Manhattan, KS USA
> >264) Jackie Langholz, Plainville, KS USA
> >265) Bill Rosen, San Diego,CA USA
> >266) Nelson P Bouchard, San Diego Ca. USA
>267) Mary Ann McCarthy, San Diego, CA USA
>268) Connie Thurston, La Jolla, CA USA
> >269 Susie Walton, Del Mar, Ca., USA
> > 270 Nathan Walton, SD., Ca., USA
> >271 Adam Walton, SD, Ca., USA
> >272 Luke  Walton, Tucson,  AZ., USA
> >273 Christopher Walton, SD, Ca. USA
>274>Virginia Holt, Del Mar, Ca. USA
>275. Abigail Erdmann
>276. Jennifer Miles
>277.  Judith Krupp, Wellesley, MA, USA
>278. BA Blum, Boston, Mass USA
>279. J Corazzin, Boston, MA USA
>280.  K. Corazzini, Boston, MA USA
>
>
> >DIRECTIONS: PLEASE COPY this email on to a new message, sign the
> >bottom and forward it to everyone on your distribution lists. If you
> >receive this list with more than 300 names on it, please e-mail a copy of
> >it
>
> >mailto:sarabande@brandeis.edu <mailto:sarabande@brandeis.edu>
>Even if you
> >decide not to sign, please be considerate and do not kill the petition.
> >
> >
> >Signed with hope for peace and a prayer for a better day
>
>Kim Corazzini, Boston, MA. USA

Bonnie Hutchins
UW-Extension Family Living Programs
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