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THE TROUBLES-5

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

Assembled by Skip Schiel

November 19, 2001

A Just Cause, Not a Just War, by Howard Zinn, December 2001 Progressive

http://www.progressive.org/
0901/zinn1101.html
Human tide—The Afghan refugees flooding Pakistan are unintended victims of the war on terrorism—
photos & text by Bikem Ekberzade


http://www.bostonphoenix.com/
boston/news_
features/other_stories/
documents/02007892.htm

Colin and Cathy South's letters from Ramallah

(Colin South is the Director of Ramallah Friends Schools)

https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-114287659.html
Cycle of forgiveness completes itself in South African shantytown
Parents repay daughter's killers with forgiveness

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
article.cgi?file=/
chronicle/archive/2001/10/28/
MN234525.DTL

Images submitted as a response to the Sept 11 attacks

 

http://www.pixelpress.org/
september11/sept11.html

UN World Food Program—provides food, high energy biscuits which are critical in
early stages of humanitarian emergency since people are on the
move and cooking facilities are limited, rice, flour etc.

http://www.wfp.org/
Doctors without Borders
provide medical relief, medical staff, assessment of health conditions, mental health care, treatment of chronic diseases
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

RAWA (Revolutionary Afghan Women Mission)
—Pakistany based, women operated organization provides
schooling materials and teaching to girls and women, is active in helping with medicine in refugee camps, provides proof on their website of human rights abuse combated by the Taliban regime among other things, probably the only humanitarian-political combo organization
http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/
index.html
Provides medicine, tents, clothes, assessment and reports

http://www.usaforunhcr.org


Breathing in, I am still water. Noticing the temporary nature of government, I breathe out.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

 

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Thanks to Lisa Taylor, Teresa Williams, Frank Houde, Louise Dunlap, Meck Groot, Tracy Marks, Bob Schiel and others for leading me to many of these sites.