Sara Pursley on "Unveiling the Bushes"

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 9:05 AM -0800 12/17/01, Angelita Manzano wrote:
>  > or moral imperatives....Such humanitarian NGOs
>>  [e.g., Amnesty
>>  International, Oxfam, Medecins sans Frontieres, and
>>  other orgs for
>>  relief work and human rights protection] are in
>>  effect (even if this
>>  runs counter to the intentions of the participants)
>>  some of the most
>>  powerful pacific weapons of the new world order --
>>  the charitable
>>  campaigns and the mendicant orders of the Empire"
>>  (pp. 35-6), whose
>>  work is comparable to what Christian missionaries
>>  did for colonialism
>>  & imperialism in the earlier centuries.  I'd include
>>  Mavis Leno, the
>>  Feminist Majority Foundation, & the like among "the
>>  mendicant orders"
>
>So women in the Middle East who are opposed to
>fundamentalism & ally themselves w/US feminists--are
>they sellouts or what?

Surely, Mavis Leno & the Feminist Majority Foundation don't have 
monopoly on feminism in the USA.  There are feminists, and there are 
feminists.

At 9:05 AM -0800 12/17/01, Angelita Manzano wrote:
>  > >>Why silence then?  Why preoccupation now?
>
>I think your questions assume that there will be
>opposition to oppression when the conditions of
>oppression are the worst. If you look at the history
>of social movements, that's usu. not the case. 
>
>Why did this movement became stronger in the late
>1990's?  Maybe Afghan women in exile became better
>organized, got more funding, increased communication
>w/feminists in the US . . .

Actually, I'd be interested in knowing more about the funding 
question if you or anyone here cares to expand on it.  Who has funded 
various factions of Afghan women in exile?
-- 
Yoshie

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