Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f9BFpl023627; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:51:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:51:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <B7EB0DCE.6DC%jgravley@asd5.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Jan Gravley <jgravley@asd5.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:319] Re: X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 16827 Lines: 391 on 10/11/01 7:00 AM, Phyllis Ruth at pruth@mail.state.tn.us wrote: > > >>>> corazj@mediaone.net 10/10/01 07:57PM >>> > 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. 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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 > 281. Phyllis Ruth, Nashville, TN 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 >
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