September 11th Fallout page Welcome to the Kersplebedeb S11 fallout page (previously the S11 Anti-War page). As always, i have been unable to update this page as often as i had hoped. I apologize for the delay, and thank you all for your understanding! Please do keep getting back to me with any feedback, interesting texts, or links that you think i may have missed. My email address is info@kersplebedeb.com I try and keep information directly related to the September 11th attacks and immediate fallout (at home and abroad), as well as the context behind the attacks. Other Related Kersplebedeb Pages Palestine page     Revolutionary Texts   The Struggle in Iraq   Curious about what this is all about? For an idea of the politics behind the politics on this site, take a gander at my political perspectives .

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Resources:

S11: Truth or Consequences - The Solidarity and Arm the Spirit collectives have published this 78 page pamphlet in response to the events of September 11th and the consequent anti-terrorist hysteria. This pamphlet provides a good introduction to the history of US imperialism and both its collusion and conflicts with the Islamic far-right, including Osama Bin Laden’s network, in Afghanistan. It also attempts to give an overview of some of the domestic repercussions of the September 11th attacks within North America. All of the texts in this pamphlet are available from this website.  To read more - click here !  Please download the flyer about this pamphlet and distribute it in your community - this information must get out!

Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan, by Melody Ermachild Chavis with foreword by Alice Walker. A slightly hagiographical biography of Meena, founder and martyr of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, who have opposed the Taliban, the United States invasion and the  current mosaic of warlords, fundamentalists and gangsters in power in Afghanistan. Hardcover, 208 pages Retail Price: $19.95 Kersplebedeb Price: $10.00

Texts of Interest

• A Moment of Silence Before I Start This Poem , by Emmanual Ortiz

• Power Over the People - Bill Clinton, the man behind the Patriot Act by James Ridgeway

• Saying Goodbye to Patriotism by Robert Jensen

• "Terrorism, the Taliban and the World Economy" by Caribbean socialist Leonard Tim Hector

• Interview with Adil Khan of Afghan Liberation Organization (from November 2000)
  

• Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens , by Ward Churchill

• America Reaps What is Sows , by BLA prisoner of war Jalil Muntaqim

• The Terrorism that Terrorism Has Wrought , by political prisoner David Gilbert
  

• Bush, Recent Convert to Feminism, Defends the Rights of Afghan Women in His Own Unique Way , by Naomi Jaffe

• Know Your Enemy: Q & A on Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban and the CIA , by Butch Lee and J. Sakai

• You're in the Hole - a crackdown on dissident prisoners , by Anne-Marie Cusac

A look at the plight of political prisoners and prisoners of war in the United States following the September 11th attacks. Prisoners have been denied the right to communicate with legal counsel, and have in many cases been segregated for know reason other than general paranoia.

• Human Rights During Wartime , by political prisoner Jaan Laaman

• Important information about the situation of political prisoners and prisoners of war following September 11th (from the Jericho Movement)

• Terror, Prisons, and the Time to Rebuild , by Matt Meyer

Resistance in Brooklyn member Matt Meyer reflects upon the meaning of terrorism, and the plight of prisoners in the U.S. today.

• Leftist Listening Points , by Matt Meyer

Meyer examines what leftists can listen for and learn from the September 11th fallout.

• An Open Letter from One Person in the U.S. to the Others We Cannot Allow Terror to Drive Us into Uniting with Our Rulers , by Michael Novick

 
• We Organize with Love in our Hearts , by Chris Crass

• You Cannot Slaughter People into Submission , by professor Sunera Thobani

On Monday, October 1st 2001, Sunera Thobani, Women's Studies Professor at the University of Vancouver and former head of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, made what I consider to be a relatively mild-mannered speech stating the obvious regarding U.S. imperialism and terrorism around the world. Nevertheless, in the current climate of psycho-jingoism her observations were met with accusations that she was "the feminist equivalent to the Taliban" guilty of inducing her "fellow Amazons into an orgasmic paroxysm of anti-American passion" ( 'Sunera Thobani rides again...', Ross McLlennan, Winnipeg Sun Oct. 5 2001- guess what this guy has on his mind!). She received death threats and people proposed that she be deported. Read the speech, see what gets these mild mannered Canucks all hot and nasty...
 
• War Frenzy , by Sunera Thobani
Professor Thobani reflects on the way in which the media and political establishment in Canada reacts to being told the ugly truth that the U.S. is a terrorist State (wonder how they'd react to being told that Canada is just a pompous and complicit cheerleader to American misdeeds?)
 
• Statement by West London Anarchists and Radicals

• Threat of U.S. strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack (September 22, 2001 The Guardian)

Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington, which were allegedly masterminded by the Saudi-born fundamentalist, a Guardian investigation has established.

  The Cost of an Afghan 'Victory' , by Dilip Hiro (The Nation February 15 1999)

"Did the founders of US policy in Afghanistan during the Carter Administration (1977-1981) realized that in spawning Islamic militancy with the primary aim of defeating the Soviet Union they were risking sowing the seeds of a phenomenon that was likely to acquire a life of its own, spread throughout the Muslim world and threaten US interests? "

A Message to the Troops, Would-be Troops and Other Youth , by Jeff Paterson

On August 30, 1990, 22-year-old Marine Corporal Jeff Paterson refused to board a military plane in Hawaii heading to Saudi Arabia. He was the first active-duty military resister in the U.S.-led attack on Iraq. The photo of Jeff sitting on the airstrip, defying orders to go fight in the Gulf War, appeared on TV and in newspapers around the world...

Women, Islam, and the State: Subordination and Resistance , by Tazeen Mahnaz Murshid

The paper attempts to examine the interplay of religion and politics in relation to its impact on the position and status of women. It demonstrates that the forces of religious 'fundamentalism' do not endorse the concept of female equality and that an alliance between these forces and a weak state is particularly problematic for female emancipation. The state is unable to play an effective role as a mediator between these forces and the women who are often their victims, because it effectively becomes a party to the perpetration of injustices against them.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan Proclaims Afghanistan Day (1983)

"The Great Communicator" does some, errrr.... communicating?!?

 Links of Interest

Progressive Political Organizations and Resources

• Afghanistan Liberation Organisation (ALO) - A Marxist Leninist Afghan organization
• The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is a civil rights watchdog group representing the concerns of the Arab-American community
• Statements by progressive artists and politicos abound on Refuse and Resist's Artist Network website
  
• Autonomedia have up this page with many essays regarding S11: Interactivist Info Exchange: Independent Media & Analysis
• The Center for Democracy and Technology provides important analysis of what the anti-terrorism legislation means in regards to state surveillance
• The Indymedia website has a list of articles and postings about this issue: www.indymedia.org/peace
• Infoshop.org Anti-War page
• Italian Resources on September 11th
• Marxism.com has a fairly interesting S11 page up
  
• Political Research Associates examine repercussions to S11
• Resist, an anti-authoritarian website based in British Columbia (Canada), has put up a NoToWar website. This site is very complete, and has links to many very important resources regarding the current crisis.
• The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) carries out work underground in Afghnaistan from a feminist left-wing perspectiv
• Wartime News - an excellent newsletter available in PDF and DOC format about the "war on terrorism" and its numerous casualties - "because freedom begins between the ears!"
  
• World Socialist Web Site : i may not be a Trotskyist, but i like this group's analysis of the current crisis

General Information, Resources, Self-Education

• Gallup Polls on the anti-terrorist hysteria and war (but remember Benjamin Disraeli's observation that "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.")
• Institute for Afghan Studies provides up to date mainstream news coverage as well as background information
• Understanding Islam contains a wealth of information on Islam
• UNICEF statistics about Afghanistan

Dissidents and Subversives in Islamic Society

• Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society
• Queer Jihad

Women in Afghanistan

• Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
• Taliban: Bitter Fruit of U.S. Imperialism’s Anti-Soviet War - Women Enslaved by Islamic Reaction , by International Communist League (Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 756, 13 April 2001)
  
• Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan!
• The Afghan Women's Mission
• Women in Islam

Related History

 
 
 
 
 
 

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