Photo from Payvand, originally from here
According to the Feminist School in Iran, 19 more Iranian women’s rights activists were arrested January 14; fourteen were members of Mothers for Peace; also among the arrested was the sister of Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi. According to Ebadi, her sister was not involved in political activism:
“I am not aware of [...]
Spread the word!
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Read Full Post »
Posted in Deciding to Live, Domestic Violence, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Nonviolent Resistance, Pornography, Prostitution, Quiverfull, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism, Women's Spirituality on Aug 30th, 2009
Courage is making the choice to live when dying would be so much easier.Courage is knowing that living will be with double trauma.
Trauma of remembering the violence, the hate and the degradation that was and is inside my body and mind.
Trauma of knowing that, and living in a world that ridicules, silences and crushes any [...]
Spread the word!
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Read Full Post »
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Afghan Women, Afghanistan, Being colonized, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Imperialism, Male Terrorism, Oppression of Women Journalists, Patriarchal Politics, RAWA, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism on Aug 20th, 2009
Malalai Joya in this morning’s Independent:
Like millions of Afghans, I have no hope in the results of today’s election. In a country ruled by warlords, occupation forces, Taliban terrorists, drug money and guns, no one can expect a legitimate or fair vote. Even international observers have been speaking about widespread fraud and intimidation and, among [...]
Spread the word!
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Read Full Post »
Photo from Revolutionary Road
On November 7, 2007, I posted Iranian women’s movement leader Delaram Ali’s eloquent Open Letter written on behalf of the movement’s Million Signatures Campaign, which came together in the wake of the brutalities against, and arrests of, women demonstrating peacefully in Iran on June 12, 2006. The background of this protest is [...]
Spread the word!
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Read Full Post »
Breaking Free Blog
Covenant Eyes has blocked http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB…
I HAVE MADE A COVENANT WITH MY EYES – JOB 31:1
I clicked on an incoming link that brought me to a screen that included the above. The woman who either blocked Women’s Space or whose “guardian” blocked Women’s Space is a former long-time subscriber to the magazine I [...]
Spread the word!
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Read Full Post »
According to the most recent reports, Neda Soltani, whose murder at the hands of Iranian police was caught on film and broadcast throughout the world, was 27 and a philosophy student. She was demonstrating with one of her professors and with some other students.
The youtube video above shows her standing next to [...]
Spread the word!
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Read Full Post »
Tehran, June 21, 2009, from Revolutionary Road.
The people are chanting, “Have no fear, we are all together,” and “Down with the dictator!”
Below are some of my earlier posts about the Iranian women’s movement or in support of women in Iran:
Urge the Iranian Government to Commute the Sentence of Journalist Roxana Saberi
Tehran: Women’s Peaceful Demonstrations Being [...]
Spread the word!
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Read Full Post »
Shirin Ebadi in front of wall painted with threats against her. Photo by Arash Ashoori Nia, www.kosoof.com
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi has told RFE/RL that the Iranian authorities should hold a new election and allow monitoring by international observers. She also called for the release of everyone the regime has arrested, which includes [...]
Spread the word!
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Read Full Post »
Several foreign news organisations have complained Iranian authorities were blocking their reporters from covering protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election.
…ARD correspondent Peter Mezger can no longer leave his hotel while ZDF journalist Halim Hosny and his colleagues have not been allowed to report on the events, their chief editors wrote.
…Iranian authorities had already barred the [...]
Spread the word!
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Read Full Post »
All photos from Revolutionary Road, where there are many more
What thrilling days in Iran! The people have taken to the streets in the wake of the announcement of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election, when many believe in fact, Ahmadinejad was defeated by the more progressive candidate. This is really just the tipping point. Women, [...]
Spread the word!
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Read Full Post »
