Did I miss something or is the doyenne of "house beautiful" now a member of
our ecofem listserv? --E.
At 07:13 PM 11/17/1999 -1000, you wrote:
>Hi - have no idea what you're talking about, nor do I know how to send
>emails I have received to others - so am not the culprit! Thanks, L Adams
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martha Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 6:07 AM
>Subject: Re: Information.... (fwd)
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have probably received this forward 10 times in the last 2 years. I dont
>>mean to sound like a hard ass but did you check the validity of this
>>information before you forwarded it? I have a feeling this is one of those
>>forwards that keeps going and going with little basis in the actual world.
>>
>>Because blindly forwarding things you receive is a good way to spread
>>disinformation, I would recommend checking the facts yourself before
>sending
>>something like this along, especially to a list serv. If you are the
>sender
>>you should be able to vouch for this info.
>>
>>If you do have information more information about these women, I would be
>>very interested in learning more.
>>
>>Thank you,
>>Martha
>>
>>>From: Jake A Paisain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>Subject: Information.... (fwd)
>>>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:22:05 -0700 (MST)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 08:48:58 -0700
>>>From: Paul Filicetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>To: Blue Mountain Clinic Cherie Garcelon/Laura Lee
>>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>> Jake Paisain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>Subject: Information....
>>>
>>>Subject: Human rights violations
>>>Subject: women in Afghanistan
>>>
>>>
>>>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 stuffed into their homes, so that depression is becoming
>>>so widespread that it has reached emergency levels. There 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, who
>>>cannot find proper medication and treatment for severe depression and
>>>would rather take their lives than live in such conditions, has
>>>increased significantly. 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 on the street, even if they hold Ph.D.'s. There are almost no
>>>medical facilities available for women,and relief workers, in protest,
>>>have mostly left the country, taking medicine and psychologists and
>>>other things necessary to treat the sky-rocketing level of depression
>>>among women. At one of the rare hospitals for women, a reporter found
>>>still, nearly lifeless bodies lying motionless on beds, wrapped in their
>>>
>>>burqua, unwilling to speak, eat, or do anything, but slowly wasting
>>>way.Others have gone mad and were seen crouched in corners, perpetually
>>>rocking or crying, most of them in fear. One doctor is considering, when
>>>
>>>what little medication that is left finally runs out, leaving these
>>>women in front of the president's residence as a form of peaceful
>>>protest. 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 female relatives,especially their wives,but an angry mob has
>>>often just as much right to stone or beat a woman, to death, for
>>>exposing an inch of flesh or offending them in the slightest way. Women
>>>enjoyed relative freedom, to work, dress generally as they wanted, and
>>>drive and appear in public alone until 1996. The rapidity of this
>>>transition is the main reason for the depression and suicide; women who
>>>were once educators, doctors or simply used to basic human freedoms are
>>>now severely restricted and treated as SUB-HUMAN in the name of
>>>right-wing fundamentalist Islam. It is not their tradition or
>>>'culture', but 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 in 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 support and 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 1999 to be treated as sub-human and so much as property.
>>>Equality and human decency is a RIGHT not a freedom, whether one lives
>>>in Afghanistan or elsewhere.
>>>
>>>1) Suzanne Dathe, Grenoble, France
>>>2) Laurence COMPARAT, Grenoble,France
>>>3) Philippe MOTTE, Grenoble, France
>>>4) Jok FERRAND, Mont St Martin, France
>>>5) Emmanuelle PIGNOL, St Martin d'Heres, FRANCE
>>>6) Marie GAUTHIER, Grenoble, FRANCE
>>>7) Laurent VESCALO, Grenoble,FRANCE
>>>8) Mathieu MOY, St Egreve, FRANCE
>>>9) Bernard BLANCHET, Mont St Martin, FRANCE
>>>10) Tassadite FAVRIE, Grenoble, FRANCE
>>>11) Loic GODARD, St Ismier, FRANCE
>>>12) Benedicte PASCAL, Grenoble, FRANCE
>>>13) Khedaidja BENATIA, Grenoble, FRANCE
>>>14) Marie-Therese LLORET, Grenoble,FRANCE
>>>15) Benoit THEAU, Poitiers, FRANCE
>>>16) Bruno CONSTANTIN, Poitiers, FRANCE
>>>17) Christian COGNARD, Poitiers, FRANCE
>>>18) Robert GARDETTE, Paris, FRANCE
>>>19) Claude CHEVILLARD, Montpellier, FRANCE
>>>20) gilles FREISS, Montpellier, FRANCE
>>>21) Patrick AUGEREAU, Montpellier, FRANCE.
>>>22) Jean IMBERT, Marseille, FRANCE
>>>23) Jean-Claude MURAT, Toulouse, France
>>>24) Anna BASSOLS, Barcelona, Spain
>>>25) Mireia DUNACH, Barcelona, Spain
>>>26) Michel VILLAZ, Grenoble, France
>>>27) Pages Frederique, Dijon, France
>>>28) Rodolphe FISCHMEISTER, Chatenay-Malabry, France
>>>29) Francois BOUTEAU, Paris, France
>>>30) Patrick PETER, Paris, France
>>>31) Lorenza RADICI, Paris, France
>>>32) Monika Siegenthaler, Bern, Switzerland
>>>33) Mark Philp, Glasgow, Scotland
>>>34) Tomas Andersson, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>35) Jonas Eriksson, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>36) Karin Eriksson, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>37) Ake Ljung, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>38) Carina Sedlmayer, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>39) Rebecca Uddman, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>40) Lena Skog, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>41) Micael Folke, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>42) Britt-Marie Folke, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>43) Birgitta Schuberth, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>44) Lena Dahl, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>45) Ebba Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>46) Jessica Carlsson, Vaxjo, Sweden
>>>47) Sara Blomquist, Vaxjo, Sweden
>>>48) Magdalena Fosseus, Vaxjo, Sweden
>>>49) Charlotta Langner, Goteborg, Sweden
>>>50) Andrea Egedal, Goteborg, Sweden
>>>51) Lena Persson, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>52) Magnus Linder, Umea, Sweden
>>>53) Petra Olofsson, Umea, Sweden
>>>54) Caroline Evenbom, Vaxjo, Sweden
>>>55) Asa Pettersson, Grimsas, Sweden
>>>56) Jessica Bjork, Grimsas, Sweden
>>>57) Linda Ahlbom Goteborg, Sweden
>>>58) Jenny Forsman, Boras, Sweden
>>>59) Nina Gunnarson, Kinna, Sweden
>>>60) Andrew Harrison, New Zealand
>>>61) Bryre Murphy, New Zealand
>>>62) Claire Lugton, New Zealand
>>>63) Sarah Thornton, New Zealand
>>>64) Rachel Eade, New Zealand
>>>65) Magnus Hjert, London, UK
>>>67) Madeleine Stamvik, Hurley, UK
>>>68) Susanne Nowlan, Vermont, USA
>>>69) Lotta Svenby, Malmoe, Sweden
>>>70) Adina Giselsson, Malmoe, Sweden
>>>71) Anders Kullman, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>72) Rebecka Swane, Stockholm,Sweden
>>>73) Jens Venge, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>74) Catharina Ekdahl, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>75) Nina Fylkegard, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>76) Therese Stedman, Malmoe, Sweden
>>>77) Jannica Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>78) Douglas Bratt
>>>79) Mats Lofstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>80) Li Lindstrom, Sweden
>>>81) Ursula Mueller, Sweden
>>>82) Marianne Komstadius, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>83) Peter Thyselius, Stockholm, Sweden
>>>84) Gonzalo Oviedo, Quito, Ecuador
>>>85) Amalia Romeo, Gland, Switzerland
>>>86) Margarita Restrepo, Gland, Switzerland
>>>87) Eliane Ruster, Crans p.C., Switzerland
>>>88) Jennifer Bischoff-Elder, Hong Kong
>>>89) Azita Lashgari, Beirut, Lebanon
>>>90) Khashayar Ostovany, New York, USA
>>>91) Lisa L Miller, Reno NV
>>>92) Danielle Avazian, Los Angeles, CA
>>>93) Sara Risher, Los Angeles, Ca.
>>>94) Melanie London, New York, NY
>>>95) Susan Brownstein , Los Angeles, CA
>>>96) Steven Raspa, San Francisco, CA
>>>97) Margot Duane, Ross, CA
>>>98) Natasha Darnall, Los Angeles, CA
>>>99) Candace Brower, Evanston,IL
>>>100) James Kjelland, Evanston, IL
>>>101) Michael Jampole, Beach Park, IL, USA
>>>102) Diane Willis, Wilmette, IL, USA
>>>103) Sharri Russell, Roanoke, VA, USA
>>>104) Faye Cooley, Roanoke, VA, USA
>>>105) Natalie Edwards, Charlottesville VA USA
>>>106) Cyndy Williams, Charlottesville, VA USA
>>>107) Donna Hall, Lynchburg, Va USA
>>>108) Robin Hinkle, Lynchburg, VA USA
>>>109) George Vass Venice, FL USA
>>>110) Martha Ferris, Moncks Corner, SC USA
>>>111) Teresa Smith, Charleston, SC, USA
>>>112) Terry Longo, Orlando, FL, USA
>>>113) Charlotte Downs, Orlando, FL, USA
>>>114) Laura M. Connaughton, Orlando, FL USA
>>>115) Ronit Doran, Tel Aviv, Israel
>>>116) Eran Hazoum, Tel Aviv, Israel
>>>117) Ze'ev Ben-Tsvi, Givaatim, Israel
>>>118) Esther Spanjer, Netherlands
>>>119) Pascal Moser, Bern, Switzerland
>>>120) Lucien Moser, Bern, Switzerland
>>>121) Josepha Oostvogels, Bern, Switzerland
>>>122) Germany
>>>123) Sierd de Bruin, Bern,Switzerland
>>>124) Tina Eslick, Rossdorf, Germany
>>>125) Daniela Bergsch, Cologne, Germany
>>>126) Brigitte Molsich, Pulheim, Germany
>>>127) Beate Molsich, Bochum, Germany
>>>128) Claudine Ip, Mauritius
>>>129) Max Li ,Mauritius
>>>130) Laval Liong, Mauritius
>>>131) Jrme BOURGEOIS, FRANCE
>>>132) Patricia Labeye, France
>>>133) Nicolas Gilbert, FRANCE
>>>134) Cline BONNAIRE, France
>>>135) Claudio Banegas Bruzzone, BELGIUM
>>>136) Stephane Wajskop, BELGIUM
>>>137) Nannette RIPMEESTER, The Netherlands
>>>138) Marja Exalto Sijbrands
>>>139) Bep Jungschlager, Delft, The Netherlands
>>>140) Mandy Jungschlager, Schiedam, The Netherlands
>>>141) Shirly van den Boogert, Delft, The Netherlands
>>>142) Robert de Vette, Schiedam, The Netherlands
>>>143) Margt van den Oever, Delft, The Netherlands
>>>144) Vivian Engels, Delft, The Netherlands
>>>145) Bart Sosef, Honselersdijk, The Netherlands
>>>146) Matthijs Withaar, Naaldwijk, The Netherlands
>>>147) Joost Den Haag, the Netherlands
>>>148) Marco Van Belle, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
>>>149) Leon van Rijnsbergen, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
>>>150) Walco van Loon, Hilversum, The Netherlands
>>>151) Noor van de Beek, Batam, Indonesia
>>>152) Lucie Kompier, Utrecht, The Netherlands
>>>153) Canavesi Manuela, Milano Italia
>>>154) Sabina Langer, Milano, Italia
>>>155) Giorgio Amsicora Onnis, Treviglio (Bg), Italia
>>>156) Matteo Boni, Milano, Italia
>>>157) Camillo Boni, Milano, Italia
>>>158) Barattieri Silvana, Milano, Italia
>>>159) Cavaliere Sara, Milano, Italia
>>>160) Flocchini Anna, Milano, Italia
>>>161) Lucia GASPERINI, Milano, Italia
>>>162) Bruno Mansoux, Paris, France
>>>163) Giovanni Losurdo, Pisa, Italia
>>>164) Reza Ansari, Paris, France
>>>165) Jean Kaplan, Paris, France
>>>166) Giovanni Gallavotti, Italia
>>>167) Michael Keane, The Hague, The Netherlands
>>>168) Emmanuel Lesigne, Tours, France
>>>169) Yves Lacroix, Brest, France
>>>170) Victoria Dreitz, Laurel, Maryland, USA
>>>171) Jeffrey Prince, Florida, USA
>>>172) PM Johnson, Washington, USA
>>>173) P. FILICETTI, Montana, USA
>>>174) J. Paisain, Montana, USA
>>>
>>>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 200 names on it, please e-mail a copy of it to :
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Send after every
>>>
>>>200 names.) Even if you decide not to sign, please be considerate and do
>>>
>>>not kill the petition. Thank you. It is best to copy rather than
>>>forward the petition. Melissa Buckheit , Brandeis University
>>>Yves Lacroix
>>>
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>>Martha Stewart
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>>The Top 2 Signs I am stalking you:
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>>1. That tell-tale lemon slice in the dog's water bowl.
>>
>>2. Twice this week you've been the victim of a drive-by doilying.
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