Shortly after I graduated college in 2000, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1325 which mandates women’s equal involvement in conflict resolution. While the U.S. participated in the unanimous passage of that resolution, it has failed to implement it in any of its military interventions. The result? Ten years into the U.S. occupation, Afghanistan remains the most dangerous [...]
Friday, June 17, 2011
The Metro Economies Policy Committee passed the War Dollars Home Resolution unanimously. As Jackie Cabasso of Mayors for Peace explained, #USCM2011 Metro Econ Cmmttee used consent calendar-type process to adopt 13 resolutions simultaneously. Noone pulled Bring Our $$ Home!! Unpacking that tweet: business is done at the US Conference of Mayors by consent. A member [...]
Friday, June 10, 2011
Personally, I think all federal budget debates are connected. Specifically, the Republicans want to slash spending for domestic priorities – that feels to me like the second half of the statement “Bring Our War $$ Home.” Our platform is not simply cut the military budget: we want money re-appropriated to human needs. Regardless of your [...]
Friday, March 5, 2010
Reposted from Alice Walker’s Blog The Cushion and the Road: Meditation and Wandering As the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way ©2010 by Alice Walker I do not believe in war at all; although I am as capable of anger as anyone. To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, [...]
Saturday, October 3, 2009
We began at the offices of the ROSE magazine. A magazine just for women that is funded by an Afghan-French woman. It covers practical life, politics and culture. The chief editor is a man because women can't do what is needed because of security and problems with the government. When we heard that we were concerned that the material would not be interesting, but we opened up to a piece on how AIDS hits women harder than men in Afghanistan and an article called "Where is the First Lady?" So Medea quit rolling her eyes.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
On our first full day out into Kabul, I saw an old woman being dragged across the street by two men. One of our delegates said she thought she saw the men kick the clearly resisting woman. This happened only a few blocks away from our meeting with Women for Women International, where they said if they would have seen the altercation they would have intervened.
Monday, June 20, 2011
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