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----- Original Message ----- From: Mary Kay Freshour To:
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Mary Kay Freshour ; Kelly Mitchell ;
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Tiffany Soule ;
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cindy Howell ; Barbara Myers ;
Terri Cooper ; Karen Havreberg ; Mary Eberlyn ; Debbie Cabrera ; Kay
Freshour ; <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sharon Kafka ;
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Andrea Herd ; Susie Timmons ; Patricia
Bruck ; Lisa Williams ; <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Kaye Roberts ; Laurie
Draper ; <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Caryl Rau ; Emiliah Adams ;
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Pam Courter ;
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Jani McClenathan ; Pat Trout ;
Carolyn Johnson ; Suzanne Sippel ; Betty Hard ;
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Nancy Snook ;
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Dotty Bracilano ;
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Jean Loveless ; <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Jeanne
Stuntz ; <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Nieves V Velasco ;
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Barb Donaugh ;
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Paulette Hogg ; Doris Smith Sent: Thursday,
January 11, 2001 1:44 PM Subject: (no subject)
Madhu, the government of Afghanistan, is waging a war upon women. If you
decide not to forward this, please send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .
This is an actual petition, and "signatures" will be lost if you drop
the
line.
Dear Friends: Please do not ignore this email. This is something that we
as women and essentially as human beings need to support. I don't know
if this is going to help but take three minutes out of your life to do
your
part.
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 stuffed into their
homes.
Homes where a woman is present must have their windows painted so that
she
can never be seen by outsiders. 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.Ds.
Depression 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 would rather take their lives than live in such
conditions. 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. It is at the point where the term "inhumane" is 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 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 resort to military force in Kosovo to
stop
genocide in the name of human rights, citizens of the world can
certainly
express 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 INTERVENTION BY THE
UNITED NATIONS. THE CURRENT SITUATION OVERSEAS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
WOMEN'S RIGHTS IS NOT A SMALL ISSUE ANYWHERE, AND IT IS UNACCEPTABLE FOR
WOMEN IN 2000 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)Giuliana 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, SanFrancisco, CA
8)Ellen Tilden, San Fransisco, CA
9) Vanessa Ross, San Francisco, CA
10) Jenna Shaw- Battista, San Francisco, CA
11) Jeanne Racik, Berkeley, 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)Rebecca Longworth, New York, NY
21) Kelly J.Williams,Chester, VA
22) Audrey W. Bunch, Elizabeth City, NC
23) Frances G.Shannonhouse, Elizabeth City,NC
24) Sharolyn M. Herring, Elizabeth City, NC
25) Michael W.Christol, Owensboro, Ky
26) Damon K. Christol, Louisville, Ky
27) Wendy D. Patton, Owensboro, Ky
28) Judy W. Christol, Owensboro, Ky
29) Onslow H. Wilson, Plainfield, IN
30)Davidand Allison Sahyoun, Magdalena, NM
31) Alana Wolfe, Santa Fe, NM
32) Kathryn Schomaker, Mt. Angel, OR
33) Ray Manna, Bay St. Louis, MS
34)Sachi Kuiper, Santa Rosa, CA
35) DianeAngehrn, Santa Rosa, CA
36) Steven Wadas, Fair Oaks, CA
37) Teresa Gardiner, Fair Oaks, CA
38) Staci Boden, SF, CA
39)Alex Gologorsky, SF, CA
40) Mark Levitan, Bishop, CA
41) Pam Koonce, Bishop, CA
42) Joyce Levitan, St. Paul, MN
43)Len Levitan, St. Paul, MN
44) Donna Byrne, St.Paul, MN
45)Fran Stier, Swarthmore, PA
46) Rose Berstein, Pawtucket, RI
47)Wendy B.Schatzman, Brussels, Belgium
48)Eugenia Bas-Isaac,Tucson,Arizona
49) Wallace Kinkade, Angouljme, France
50) NanMcBriide, Scottsdale, Arizona
51) Carolyn Vagourdes, Hilton Head,SC
52) Sally Reinhold, Pittsburgh, PA
53) Sue Blair,Highlands, NC
54) Mary Morris Knepp, Sky Valley, GA
55)Kelly McCarthy, Santa Barbara, CA USA
56)Mark Stucky, Santa Barbara, CA USA
57) Victoria Morris, Santa Barbara, CA USA
58) Susan Comey, Harpswell, ME USA
59)Maria Donaldi, New York,NY, USA
60) Jean Rawn, New York, NY, USA
61) Victoria Bigelow, Chicago, USA
62) Beverly Karp, Defiance, OH, USA
63) Maria Plochocki - Williams, Jersey City, NJ USA
64) Nicolette Porochnia, Brooklyn, NY, USA
65) Lilli Avenia, Flushing, NY
66) Lisa Modifica, Astoria, NY
67) Richard Haw, Leeds, UK
67) Krista Petkovsek, Chicago, IL
68) John Potter, Chicago, IL
69) Nina Marks
70)joanmarie marks,williamstown,ma
71)Allison Robbins, Bolton, CT
72)Geraldine Shen, New York, NY
73) Mark Heinrich-Wallace
74) Sam Arons,Berkeley, CA
75) Andrew Gillette, Kensington,CA
76)James McDonnell, Little Rock, AR
77) Jeni McDonnell, Little Rock, AR
78) Margaret Magee, Wall, NJ
79) Laura Roman, Chatham, NJ
80) Krystle Massey, Irvington, NJ
81)Baronese Taylor,Snellville, GA USA
83) Ophelia Richardson,Hoboken, NJ
84)Jiri Cruz, Jersey City, NJ
85)Jacqueline Villa, Weehawken, NJ USA
86) Sara Catalano, Manalapan, NJ USA
87) Toni Favale, Freehold, NJ USA
88) Lauren Mizejewski, Middletown, NJ USA
89) Kendale Soldano, Brick NJ USA
90)Gina Toaldo, Brick NJ
91)Megen Toaldo
92)Brook Marcotte Barnet, VT
93)ShannonMaroney,Danville, VT
94)kate graves, burlington,VT
95) Lillian Harris Montreal, Quebec, Canada
96) Nobue Inamura, Kanagawa, Japan
97) June Rousso
98) Lori Saffer. MA, USA
99) Aviva Wertkin NY,USA
100) Summer Killian, NY, USA
101) Maria C. Rodriguez, NY, USA
102) Richard Stolzenthaler, Hyogo ken, Japan
103) Rhonda Fleischer, NY, USA
104) Judy Cohen, Queens, NY, USA
105) Sylvia Bookbinder, NJ, USA
106) Jane Sarwin
107) Charity Quinn
108) Yaron Glucksman, NY, NY
109) Ella Dodson, Madison, New Jersey USA
110) Rhona Sewell, New York, NY USA
111) Julia Zarudzka, Vancouver, BC, Canada
112) Rebecca Bertrand, Ottawa, ON, Canada
113) Kelly Edwards, London, ON, Canada
114) Adam Boon, London, ON, Canada
115) Pauline Edward, QC, Canada
116) Marie Gribbon, Qc, Canada
117) Cristina Rizzuto, Qc, Canada
118) Manon Pepin, Qc, Canada
119) Lorraine Brooke Qc, Canada
120) Sylvie Poirier Qc,Canada
121) Geneviève Brisson Québec, Québec
122) Serge Lacasse, London, Ontario
123) Dr Piers Robinson, Liverpool UK
124) D. Eric Herring, Bristol UK
125) Judith Squires, Bristol UK
126) Judith Ion, Canberra AUSTRALIA
127) Mary Hawkesworth, Philadelphia, USA
128) Nancy Theriot, Louisville, KY, USA
129) Loren Reni Beard, Louisville, KY, USA
130) Nina N. Greipel, Louisville, KY, USA
131) Simone R. Green, Louisville, KY, USA
132) Molly F. Green, Louisville, KY, USA
133) Annemarie Greipel, Louisville, KY, USA
134) Viki Greipel, Louisville, KY, USA
135) Susanne Huth, Meckenbach, GERMANY
136) Jacqueline van't Spijker, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
137) Eve van Dinther, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
138) Claudia Schalkx, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
139) Ann Webster, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
140) Amy Shaffer, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
141) Sherie Shaffer, Uhrichsville, Ohio, USA
142) Larry Shaffer, Uhrichsville, Ohio, USA
143) Anita Forsberg Culbertson, South Euclid, Ohio, USA
144) Kurt Culbertson, South Euclid, Ohio, USA
145) Patricia Richardson, Brecksville, Ohio, USA
146) Caroln Haynali, Ohio, USA
147) Marcia S. Klaas, Arkansas, USA
148) Jody Crowe. WV, USA
149)Marcia Perry Rhoades, Ohio, USA
150) Jane Mockler, Ohio USA
151) Kathy Strawn, Columbus, OH, USA
152) Laurie Spinosi, Columbus, OH, USA
153) Helen I. Chan, Columbus. OH, USA
154)Phyllis C. Gallagher Worthington, Ohio USA
155)Ann W. James, Pataskala, Ohion USA
156) Diana Clark, Sunbury, Ohio USA
157) Mary Kay Freshour, Columbus, Ohio USA
158) Norman R. Snook, Delaware, OH, USA
159) Nancy M. Snook, Delaware, OH, USA
160) Sally Lerner, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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 to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Even if you decide not to sign, please be considerate and do not kill
the
petition.
Thank you.
