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Showing videos filed under: Afghan Women’s Mission
Tariq Ali, Sonali Kolhatkar, and Voices from Ground Zero
May 2, 2011"If the aim was to show us that state terror was more powerful than individual terrorists, we already knew that," says Tariq Ali of the U.S. special forces action that reportedly killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. As Americans celebrated outside of the White House and gathered at Ground Zero to remember those lost, Tariq reminds us that bin Laden's death will not make the U.S. safer.Sonali Kolhatkar, Rethink Afghanistan, and Psychology of Torture
August 17, 2010The media face of the war in Afghanistan is a woman's face--one particular mutilated woman, in the case of Time. Sonali Kolhatkar of the Afghan Women's Mission notes, though, that this is a clear strategy from those who benefit from the war to win over European and American audiences. Meanwhile, Afghan women who oppose occupation, like former GRITtv guest Malalai Joya, are silenced in the media just as they are silenced in Afghan politics.Year in Review: Benevolent Occupation in Afghanistan?
December 30, 2009The war in Afghanistan largely took over the headlines this year from Iraq. Obama's escalation there has led many to call it his war. A couple of months ago, we spent an entire show focusing on the issue.Week in Review: Malalai Joya: Raise Your Voice
November 1, 2009Malalai Joya has lived through more and accomplished more in her 31 years than most of us could ever dream of. Growing up a refugee in Iran and Pakistan, she returned to her native Afghanistan and took the Loya Jirga, the constitutional convention, by storm at age 25, taking on both warlords and the U.S. occupation.
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