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The Heretics: new film on women's movement
The documentary "focuses on the Heresies Collective as a microcosm of the larger international Women’s Movement in which thousands of small, intimate groups of women met together to consider their situation ... and to devise strategies for unlocking their potential and to make their work visible..."The Heresies Collective published HERESIES; A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics from 1977-1992... All the women (ages 54-84) are still doing the work they fought for the right to do when they founded HERESIES." more information
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July 19, 2010
Medea Benjamin: "Afghan Envoy Holbrooke and Senate in La La Land"
It had been hard to sit through hours of Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke’s storytelling about some far-off land he called Afghanistan. In his Afghanistan, there were new gains in agriculture and a reduction on poppy production for opium. We were empowering women and rebuilding everything from the rule of law to the electrical grid. President Karzai was really intent on tackling corruption. There was an exciting soon-to-be-unveiled program to integrate the lower-level Taliban. We were making significant gains in training the Afghan security forces, and we had real commitments from the Pakistani government to crush Al Qaeda.
We’ve heard this tall tale for the past eight years, which made some of the Senators a bit skeptical—although not skeptical enough to stop funding the war.
The most skeptical were the Republicans, who also happen to be the most anxious to keep fighting there, indefinitely. Senator Bob Corker said that despite more than an hour of testimony by Holbrooke, "I have heard nothing, nothing" about how progress will be measured. "I have no earthly idea what our objectives are on the civilian front.”...
Read full article, published July 16 by Common Dreams.org