Archive | July, 2011
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Demanding Democracy in Afghanistan

Dear Stakeholders in Afghanistan, Forgive this letter. We felt we could share with you our burdens without incurring your anger or pity. Much has happened to the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers since we met with you for a wonderful hour in Kabul. Like it is with 30 million other Afghans, our mounting challenges are ‘intolerable […]

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Saudi Arabia’s Freedom Riders

by: Farzaneh Milani On the surface, when a group of Saudi women used Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to organize a mass mobile protest defying the kingdom’s ban on women driving, it may have seemed less dramatic than demonstrators facing bullets and batons while demanding regime change in nearby countries. But underneath, the same core principles […]

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