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Tag: Oppression

Into Pakistan’s Textile Factories

The “haves” have been subjecting the “have-nots” to lives of miserable, crushing toil since polarized hierarchies appeared behind the walls of the world’s first city some 10,000 years ago. The names, faces and technologies change, but so far, the legacy of exploitation remains. (more)

Posted on Aug 22, 2011 READ MORE | 3 COMMENTS

Silence Meets Despair of Afghan Women

By Marie Cocco —

Afghanistan’s women are no longer in vogue. President Karzai has just signed a law that forces them to obey their husbands’ sexual demands and in general again consigns them to lives of brutal repression.

Posted on Apr 2, 2009 READ MORE | 48 COMMENTS

Stephen Colbert on California Republicans

Inspired by a nefarious scheme to divert California’s electoral votes to the GOP, Stephen Colbert looks into the oppression of California’s Republicans: “They must be under attack. Why else would so many of them live in gated communities?”

Posted on Sep 19, 2007 READ MORE | 1 COMMENT

Under the Shroud: Women and the Taliban

The Feminist Majority’s Lorraine Sheinberg created the 1999 documentary that first focused attention on the Taliban’s brutal oppression of women in Afghanistan. It’s worth another look now.

Watch:
Intro (2:15 min/2.3MB)
Whole (15.00 min/16.5MB)