TOMORROW: AF3IRM/GABNet to RALLY AGAINST ESCALATION OF WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
EMERGENCY PROTEST!
TOMORROW, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 5pm
Westwood Federal Building
11000 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
GABNet is disgusted by the Obama administration’s decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. We have examined US intervention in Afghanistan and this war’s impact on women and have seen that the US-backed Karzai/warlord alliance has only dragged women down further in Afghan society. This year alone, martial rape has become legal – a law was passed requiring women to have sex with their husbands up to four times a week, a law that must be followed unless the woman is ill. Islamic fundamentalism views women as sub-human, fit only for household slavery and procreation. Sexual crimes against women, gang raping, lust murders, abductions of young females, blackmail of families with eligible daughters, etc. were commonplace during the rule of the pre-Taliban fundamentalists, who now once again have key positions in the government of Hamid Karzai. They are free to brutalize Afghan women in areas under their domination and the unholy alliance of Karzai’s gang and the United States will only protects and funds murderers.
During this 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence we must answer the call to protest the escalation of the war in Afghanistan and continued US occupation!
AF3IRM/GABNet stands in solidarity with the women, the people of Afghanistan!
[For more information on the AF3IRM/GABNet contingent, please email organizing@gabnet.org or call Ivy Quicho at 951-333-4306.]
