Rape is a WAR Crime! Once again, we are witnessing women in war zones being raped. The latest are women in the Congo who are being brutalized. See The New York Times article from 10/7/07 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/world/africa/07congo.html:
What can we do? Besides educating others we can write to the UN, to our national representatives, to the State department and tell them to get involved humanitarianly. Tell them that violence agaisnt women is unacceptable. Rape is a war crime.
Please read this article: http://www.alternet.org/sex/63349/ It's about the link between porn & war. Our society gives the message that violence against women is normal. Maybe the laws need to be changed to make rape a hate crime. Educating men and women not to accept women being called bitches and hos would be a start.
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The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. A MUST read concerning the implementation of Milton Friedman's economic theories--very relevant to today's economics.
The Girl I Left behind: a Narrative History of the Sixties by Judith Nies. While this is a story of her coming to feminism, it is also an insight into our foreign policy practices.
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf. This is an historic look at the 10 steps from democracy to tyranny.See post 12/11/07 for more links about this book.
Snow by Orhan Pamuk about Turkey's secular/islamic divide, rich in Turkish history, which landed Pamuk on trial. Told as a story about an investigation on the suicide of young school girls who have donned the head scarf.
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What can we do? Besides educating others we can write to the UN, to our national representatives, to the State department and tell them to get involved humanitarianly. Tell them that violence agaisnt women is unacceptable. Rape is a war crime.
Please read this article: http://www.alternet.org/sex/63349/
It's about the link between porn & war.
Our society gives the message that violence against women is normal. Maybe the laws need to be changed to make rape a hate crime. Educating men and women not to accept women being called bitches and hos would be a start.
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