From: Tamar Yaron [tiyaron@bigfoot.com] Sent: Thursday, December 31, 1998 3:14 PM To: Ami Isseroff; SALAAM-V-SHALOM@listserv.aol.com Cc: webmaster@splashdesigns.com; diamondback@mindspring.com; David Emery; webmaster@snopes.com; Charles Hymes; Charles_Hymes@hp.com Subject: Re: Petition for USAns - Women's rights in Afghanistan Please DO NOT forward the message about IT IS A HOAX! There are many chain letter rumors on the Internet, just taking up bandwidth, so I checked if there was a date embedded in the original message (there isn't, and that's one sign of a hoax), I couldn't find any "Kathleen Barbosa" or "Melissa Buckheit" on the Net (except for news groups' copies of this message) and I checked the email address to which full lists are supposedly to be sent (sarabande@brandeis.edu). That address does not exist! This is the reply I received when sending the following message: Subject: Test Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 02:04:36 +0200 From: Tamar Yaron Reply-To: Tamar Yaron Organization: ErgoLight Usability Software To: sarabande@brandeis.edu I'm trying to see if there's truth to an email petition message with subject "Petition for USAns - Women's rights in Afghanistan". ********* Quoted reply ************* Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 03:05:05 +0200 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem To: The original message was received at Thu, 31 Dec 1998 03:05:00 +0200 from host164-75.mishkei.org.il [62.0.75.164] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to cliff.unet.brandeis.edu.: >>> RCPT To: <<< 550 ... User unknown 550 ... User unknown Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.mishkei.org.il Received-From-MTA: DNS; host164-75.mishkei.org.il Arrival-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 03:05:00 +0200 Final-Recipient: RFC822; sarabande@brandeis.edu Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; cliff.unet.brandeis.edu Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 ... User unknown Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 03:05:04 +0200 ********* End of quoted reply ************* Please, if you did already forward the "Petition for USAns - Women's rights in Afghanistan" message, please also forward this message to those same recipients so maybe the chain will stop. Here are some links to check if you think you have received another hoax: Don't Spread that Hoax! http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/hoax.html ACLIO! ICQ chains & rumors http://aclio.splashdesigns.com/ E-Mail Hoaxes & Scams http://diamond-back.com/emailhoaxes.html Lies, Damn Lies & ICQ Messages http://surf.to/the.truth Urban Legends and Folklore http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/ Urban Legends Reference Pages http://snopes.simplenet.com/ Thank you and salaam wa/ve shalom and HAPPY NEW YEAR! Tamar Yaron. Ami Isseroff wrote: > >>I received this from a friend. I haven't checked it out, but it has the > >ring of truth, and so I'm forwarding it to you. Mindy > >> > >>Friends - I havenow received this message from two differnt sources. > >Please do pass it on to your friends and colleagues, and when you get to # > >50 on the list, forward it to the woman mentioned. Thanks, Liz > >> > >>If 1/10 of what is alleged by this petition is true, then this is a truly > >horrible situation. > >> > >>Matt > >> > >>This is a petition to support immediate interest and action about the > >situation in Afghanistan. Women's Rights are being violated and just > >because it is not a issue at "home" in the United States does not mean that > >it should not be supported. This petition, when large enough, will be > >presented to the Women's Majority at Brandeis and/or in the Boston Area, in > >addition to perhaps Amnesty International, and to other organizations, and > >the President, as a representation of people and Brandeis students, > >faculty, administration who want immediate attention to this issue. The > >following information was prepared by Kathleen Barbosa, Connecticut > >College, who is Representative and Officer of the Feminist Political > >Majority on her campus. > >> > >> **** Please Sign at the bottom to support and include your town. > >> > >>If you receive this list with more than 50 names on it, please email a > >copy of it to sarabande@brandeis.edu >you decide not to sign, please be considerate and do not kill the petition. > >Thank you. It is best to copy rather than forward the petition. > >> > >> Melissa Buckheit > >> > >>The situation is getting so bad that one person in an editorial of the > >times compared the treatment of women there to the treatment of Jews in > >pre-holocaust Poland. Since the Taliban took power in 1996, women have had > >to wear burqua and have been beaten and stoned in public for not having the > >proper attire, even if this means simply not having the mesh covering in > >front of their eyes. > >> > >>One woman was beaten to DEATH by an angry mob of fundamentalists for > >accidentally exposing her arm while she was driving. Another was stoned to > >death for trying to leave the country with a man that was not a relative. > >> > >>Women are not allowed to work or even go out in public without a male > >relative; professional women such as professors, translators, doctors, > >lawyers, artists and writers have been forced from their jobs and stuffed > >into their homes, so that depression is becoming so widespread that it has > >reached emergency levels. There is no way in such an extreme Islamic > >society to know the suicide rate with certainty, but relief workers are > >estimating that the suicide rate among women, who cannot find proper > >medication and treatment for severe depression and would rather take their > >lives than live in such conditions, has increased significantly. > >> > >>Homes where a woman is present must have their windows painted so that she > >can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear silent shoes so that they > >are never heard. Women live in fear of their lives for the slightest > >misbehavior. Because they cannot work, those without male relatives or > >husbands are either starving to death or begging on the street, even if > >they hold Ph.D.'s. there are almost no medical facilities available for > >women, and relief workers, in protest, have mostly left the country, taking > >medicine and psychologists and other things necessary to treat the > >sky-rocketing level of depression among women. At one of the rare > >hospitals for women, a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies lying > >motionless on top of beds, wrapped in their burqua, unwilling to speak, eat > >or do anything, but are slowly wasting away. Others have gone mad and were > >seen crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or crying, most of them in > >fear. One doctor is considering, when what little medication that is left > >finally runs out, leaving these women in front of the president's residence > >as a form of peaceful protest. It is at the point where the term 'human > >rights violations' have become an understatement. Husbands have the power > >of life and death over their women relatives, especially their wives, but > >an angry mob has just as much right to stone or beat a woman, oftento > >death, for exposing an inch of flesh or offending them in the the slightest > >way. > >> > >>David Cornwell has told me that we in the United States should not judge > >the Afghan people for such treatment because it is a 'cultural thing', but > >this is not even true. Women enjoyed relative freedom, to work, dress > >generally as they wanted, and drive and appear in public alone until only > >>1996 -- the rapidity of this transition is the main reason for the > >depression and suicide; women who were once educators or doctors or simply > >used to basic human freedoms are now severely restricted and treated as > >sub-human in the name of right-wing fundamentalist Islam. It is not their > >tradition or 'culture', but is alien to them, and it is extreme even for > >those cultures where fundamentalism is the rule. Besides, if we could > >excuse everything on cultural grounds, then we should not be appalled that > >the Carthaginians sacrificed their infant children, that little girls are > >circumcised in parts of Africa, that blacks in the deep south in the1930's > >were lynched, prohibited from voting and forced to submit to unjust Jim > >Crow laws. Everyone has a right to a tolerable human existence, even if > >they are women in a Muslim country in a part of the world that Americans do > >not understand. > >> > >>If we can threaten military force in Kosovo in the name of human rights > >for the sake of ethnic Albanians, Americans can certainly express peaceful > >outrage at the oppression, murder and injustice committed against women by > >the Taliban. > >> > >>Kathleen Barbosa > >> > >> > >>STATEMENT: > >> > >>****** In signing this, we agree that the current treatment of women in > >Afghanistan is completely UNACCEPTABLE and deserves support and action by > >the people of the United States and the U.S. Government and that the > >current situation overseas will not be tolerated. Women's Rights are not a > >small issue anywhere and it is UNACCEPTABLE for women in 1998 to be treated > >as sub-human and so much as property. Equality and human decency is a RIGHT > >not a freedom, whether one lives in Afghanistan or the United States.***** > >> > >>1) Kathleen Barbosa, New London, CT > >>2) Melissa J. Buckheit Waltham, MA > >>3) Olga Broumas, Brewster, MA > >>4) Heather Feldman, Waltham, MA > >>5) Robert L. Hawkins, Waltham, MA > >>6) Ann Vollmann Bible, Cambridge, MA > >>7) Joy Garnett, New York, NY > >>8) Cynthia Pannucci, New York, NY > >>9) Ken Knowlton, Merrimack NH > >>10) Eric Somers, Poughkeepsie, NY > >>11) Faith Watson, Philadelphia, PA > >>12) Sherry Branch, Orlando, Fl. > >>13) Susie Ellis, Strasburg, VA > >>14) Christine Jurzykowski, TX > >>15) John Steiner > >>16) Wendy Volkmann > >>17) Leonie Walker, Portola Valley, CA > >>18) Kate O'Hanlan, Portola Valley, CA > >>19) Rayona Sharpnack, Redwood City, CA > >>20) Rita Hovakimian, San Francisco, CA > >>21) Karen Andes, San Rafael, CA > >>22) Carolena Nericcio, San Francisco, CA > >>23) Kajira Djoumahna, Santa Rosa, CA > >>24) Deborah Rennie, Mill Valley, CA > >>25) M. Esther Colwell, San Rafael, CA > >>26) Kate Colwell M.D., Kensington, CA > >>27) Heather Conrad, Kensington, CA > >>28) Bonnie S. Arthur, Penngrove, CA > >>29) Kay R Kerriden, Penngrove, CA > >>30) Sharon Bard, Santa Rosa CA > >>31) Sedonia Cahill, Forestville, CA > >>33) Pam LaCoe, Sebastopol, CA > >>34) Denise Meier, Sebastopol, CA > >>35) Michael Jacob, Sebastopol, CA > >>36) Matt Biers-Ariel, Berkeley, CA > >>37) Djina Ariel, Berkeley, CA > >>38) Sally Wilk, Tarzana, CA > >>39) Barry Wilk. Tarzana, CA > >>40) Marian Weissman, Los Angeles, CA > >>41) Riv-Ellen Prell, Minneapolis, Mn > >>42) Frida Kerner Furman, Chicago, IL > >>43) Elizabeth Feldman, M.D. Chicago, Ill > >>44) Penina Oren, Boston, MA > >>45) Stephen Oren, Chicago, IL > > Dr. Judith Ganchrow > Department of Oral Biology > The Hebrew University-Hadassah > Faculty of Dental Medicine > POB 1172 > 91010 Jerusalem, ISRAEL > FAX: 972-2-675-8583 OR 678-4010 > PHONE: 972-2-679-8448 (home) > 675-8589 (work) -- Shalom, Tamar. PlanetAll linking page: http://www.planetall.com/main.asp?cid=20780 (Signing up from here gives me travel points - thanks!) My ICQ communication page: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/5651107 What can you do for Israel/Palestine peace? Check out http://www.ariga.com/whatyoucando/ Peace Now Israel: http://www.peace-now.org American Friends: http://www.peacenow.org Every Day Counts For A Better World! http://www.WorldPeace2000.org/ Is it true that eating chocolate and being in love will produce the same feelings in the body? -> I've had love and I've had chocolate, and I've never come close to confusing the two. Where did this myth come from? Seems that there's an amphetamine-like chemical--called "phenylethylamine"--in the brains of people in love that is also present in chocolate. In an effort to prove that guys in lab coats have a sense of humor, several years ago, two doctors suggested that perhaps phenylethylamine was the reason that people like chocolate so much. Not to let any wacky theory go untested, some other guys in labs coats later concluded that most of the phenylethylamine is digested before it hits the brain, causing no amorous effects at all. (Source: MORE OF THE STRAIGHT DOPE by Cecil Adams) http://www.MailBits.com/Trivia