Our current world is less a bureaucracy or even a technocracy than a mediacracy, in which the construction and management of society are controlled by the ever-extending sway of the media.
- Kate Linker
As feminists concerned with global politics we have to be involved in the production and reception of mainstream media,
as well as, the alternative networks of communication which allow for the eruption of new forms of knowledge.
Therefore we can take Laura Bush's speach and counteract this with images in the media of "white womanhoods" connection to patriotic values.
These issues are deeply ingrained in American conceptions of identity and how we react to the war in Afghanistan.
The women of Afghanistan will not be displaced by romantic notions of missoniary resuce.
We will instead recognize the historical, political and religious ideologies that create oppression.
We must reimagine ourselfs, not as individuals, but as part of a larger community.
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"RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afganistan)is a political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan." |
"Statement of Purpose WRL was organized in 1923 by men and women who had opposed WWI, many
of whom had been jailed for refusing military service. " |
"Bat Shalom is a feminist peace organization of Israeli women. We
work toward a just peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors that includes
recognition of a Palestinian state side-by-side with Israel and Jerusalem
as the capital of both. Within Israel, Bat Shalom works toward a more
just and democratic society shaped equally by men and women." |
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A progressive newwire with an interactive web resource bank |
"Women International League for Peace and Freedom National Peace and Justice Coalition" |
"We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century." |
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"Z is an independent political magazine of critical thinking on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the United States. It sees the racial, sexual, political, and class dimensions of personal life as fundamental to understanding and improving contemporary circumstances and it aims to assist activist efforts to attain a better future." |
"ASAP (Acting in Solidarity with Afgan People) is a network of individuals who are committed to the alleviation of oppression and human rights violations in Afghanistan." |
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* the statements describing each website are taken from that particular site*
Bibliography
Collins, Patricia Hill. Fighting Words: Black Women & the Search for Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. 117
Bush Laura. "Ladies Home Journal Awards Speech". Ladies Home Journal Online. Nov 21 2001. http://www.lhj.com.
Images:
Shell & Endoderm - http://sif.plantbio.ohiou.edu/diglight.htm
Spiral green & blue - www.intrex.net
Hand-Spiral - www.exploratorium.edu/turbulent/letter.html
"Your either with us or you are with the terrorists" - www.adbusters.org