Note: 1) this is a digital copy. 2) please read and if possible buy her book, this is information that all people in the west should know.

URL:

part 1 (Intro-Chapter 6): http://www.mediafire.com/?quyqffqsxq4gw2c

part 2 (Chapter 6- end): http://www.mediafire.com/?m6g6v5yy3jjuv6w

Description:

Malalai Joya was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2010. An extraordinary young woman raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan, Joya became a teacher in secret girls’ schools, hiding her books under her burqa so the Taliban couldn’t find them; she helped establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home providence of Farah; and at a constitutional assembly in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country’s powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan’s new Parliament. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the warlords and drug barons and their cronies. She was survived four assassination attempts to date, is accompanied at all times by armed guards, and sleeps only in safe houses. 

Joya takes us inside this massively important and insufficiently understood country, shows us the desperate day-to-day situations its remarkable people face at every turn, and recounts some of he many acts of rebellion that are helping to change it. A controversial political figure in one of the most dangerous places on earth, Malalai Joya is a hero of our times. 

Note: Digital Read. Also, this is a book of small size, so you will have to zoom in.

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?9s538sloilogvl8

Introduction:

New York is, for countless millions, a beacon. As much it has a history as a destination point and a place to make a better life, it also has a history of protest, at different times and for different reasons, when needed. 

During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln issued the Enrollment Act of Conscription, or military draft. Lincoln’s call for 300,000 young men to fight a seemingly endless war frightened even those who supported the Union cause. Not everyone was nervous, however- one of the exemptions to the Act was a “commutation fee.” For $300, an outrageous sum in 1863, the wealthier citizens of New York could buy their way out. 

On July 12th, 1863, the names of the first draftees were published in city newspapers. Within hours, throngs of outraged New Yorkers had formed a roving mob, destroying homes of the rich, looting stores, and sadly, fighting amongst themselves. For three days 50,000 people terrorized New York, sick of the war, enraged at being forced to fight because they couldn’t afford not to.

Few New Yorkers would welcome a three-day riot, even if the draft were reinstated for the war in Iraq. But the parallels are there from 1863-the fat that then, as now, money is a key factor in enlistment, and many who join do so for economic reasons, even when those benefits are not guaranteed.

On May 2, 2003, aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft called the USS Abraham Lincoln, George W. Bush proclaimed “Mission Accomplished.” He wore a flight suit, despite the fact that he had used his wealth and position in society to advance to the top of the list for the Texas Air National Guard, a position that shielded him form combat in Vietnam.

ALmost three years later, we know the war isn’t over. We know the same economic advantages are being used to free certain people from the specter of enlistment, and we know who profits from this war and who loses. What else do you know, and what are we going to do with that knowledge?

What you hold in your hands is as much a love letter as a warning, filled with equal parts hope and outrage, a product of wishful thinking, grim acknowledgment and thoughts of the past as well as the future. 

By: DC SDS

note: this was scanned in to be printable. feel free to print as many copies as you want.

URL: http://viewer.zoho.com/docs/cQbA5

Opening: Thinking about joining the military? Are you willing to leave your family for extended periods of time? Are you ready to kill or die for a cause you don’t believe in? Are you prepared to give up the rights you enjoys as a civilian? Are you willing to fight someone else’s war? If you answered “No” to any of these questions, then the military may not be for you.

By Rochester SDS

note: this zine/fold was scanned in so that you would be able to print it if you liked. it might be hard to read online. It was scanned in as a paper front/back/cover on pg 1, inside on pg 2. Also, this zine is a bit old. We’re about to enter into our 9th year in Afghanistan.

URL: http://viewer.zoho.com/docs/chbdcae

Opening:

October 7th will mark the eighth year that the U.S. has been at war with Afghanistan under the auspice of fighting “the war on terror.” In eight years under occupation, tens of thousands of Afghanistan have been killed by U.S. air strikes, bombs, and bullets and the Afgani infrastructure has been devastated. In just one day of this war, May 4, 2009, U.S. air strikes killed over 150 Afghan children, women, and men in a village in Farah province. Afghanistan Rights Monitor estimates that in 2008: 1,620 civilians were killed by U.S.- led military forces, 2,800 civilians were injured and 80,000 were displaced from their homes. 2008 was the highest civilian death total since 2001, the year of the invasion.

The war affects us deeply here at home. The number of U.S. troop casualties increase more and more each year that the war continues. By next year the cost of the Afghanistan war will be more than the cost of the Iraq war, with the U.S. government requesting $65 billion for the war in 2010. So far the government has spent almost a trillion dollars in the wars against Iraq and Afghanistan.

The obama administration has already sent a “serge” of 21,000 troops to fight the insurgency. We know this is NOT a so called “just war,” but a war for regional domination and control of natural gas reserves in the region. The Afghan people have a right to self -determination, to choose their leaders and governments and to take care of their own affairs. It is not the place of the U.S. to bomb Afghanistan into submission and to choose its political leader. There is no military solution. They only real way for Afghanistan to be free is for the bombing to halt, and for all U.S. and NAto troops to leave the country immediately.