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THE TROUBLES-11

Links helping people understand the crisis exacerbated by the attacks of September 11, 2001

Assembled by Skip Schiel

March 15, 2002

Israel & the Occupied Territories

Amnesty International

http://www.amnesty-usa.org/countries/
israel_and_occupied_territories/

Amnesty International Urges Investigation of Ariel Sharon

by Carl Schoettler

October 3, 2001

http://www.amnesty-usa.org/news/
2001/belgium10032001.html

Not In My Name—
The Courage to Refuse

Letter and website from the Israeli Defense Forces reserve combat soldiers and officers

http://www.seruv.org.il/defaulteng.asp

Analysis of how the media has covered the 'War on Terrorism'; Bush threatening to use nuclear weapons; an exposé on communications between Enron's Lay & Bush...

in the People's Weekly World

 

http://www.pww.org/article/frontpage/

Thoughts in the Presence of Fear

Wendell Berry

in Orion magazine

 

http://www.orionsociety.org/pages/
oo/sidebars/America/Berry.html


Pakistan’s slave trade—Afghan refugees sold into prostitution; indentured servitude flourishes; scenes from a slave auction

by Andrew Bushnell

in the Boston Phoenix, February 14 - 21, 2002

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/
boston/news_features/top/features/
documents/02161800.htm


Jim Crow on Frat Row

November 5, 2001
On Nov. 5 the fraternity's Auburn University chapter was suspended, along with the Auburn chapter of Beta Theta Pi, for "potentially offensive and racist conduct" at Halloween parties on Oct. 25 and 27, 2001.

 

http://www.tolerance.org/news/
article_hate.jsp?id=319


Sharing the mountain with the ghosts of Buddha

The giant Buddhas of Bamiyan survived for over 1,500 years until the Taliban blew them to bits. Now the caves in which they stood are home to Bamiyan's homeless, reports Elaine Lafferty Wednesday, January 2, 2002 in the Irish Times

 

 

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/
opinion/2002/0102/opt2.htm
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Thanks to Susan Lees, Marquerite Helen, Jim Casteris, Mazin Qumsiyeh, Dinah Starr, Shawn McGivern, Esther Murer (Types & Shadows), American Friends Service Committee (New England region), Lisa Taylor, Teresa Williams, Frank Houde, Louise Dunlap, Meck Groot, Tracy Marks, Bob Schiel and others for leading me to many of these sites.

The views of what's linked are not necessarily those of the website manager, Skip Schiel