=====AFGHANISTAN SAMIZDAT===== Keep your own safety in mind. If you are going to post sensitive information, be sure that you have registered (logged on) using a **throw-away email address** that will not lead back to you if somebody should manage to break in to this site. [[https://www.stratigicon.info/doku.php?id=magrea22|CALL FOR ACTION – CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS]] This work is fiction, but I think it reflects a kind of reality that we all need to be more conscious of. The writing is excellent. I quote a littie from the author's note to AAConnect: I recently finished a scifi short story I'd been working on for about 8 years and published it on Amazon (which does not let me list it at $0.00 unfortunately.... Anyway, I wanted to share it with this group in case there was any interest. Thank you in advance for any feedback, and much love! --Mahdi Title: Withdrawal Link: [[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086R8L3WZ|Amazon]] [[RewritingHistoryAndropov|A Soviet discussion of Samizdat]] revealing how leaks of documents to the outside world led to increased access to Samizdat inside the USSR. ---- [[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/05/bitter-memories-and-unknown-future-what-will-happen-to-the-free-press-in-afghanistan/|A reporter is tortured and forced to leave Afghanistan]] [[rahmatullahNabilOnGSM|A report from Twitter on Taliban steps to interfere with communications]] [[https://fullerproject.org/story/taliban-hazaras-women-protest-migrant/|Hazara family manages to escape]] Entered here on 8 April 2023. [[https://switchboardta.org/blog/operation-allies-welcome-an-afghan-american-reflects-on-supporting-the-emergency-evacuation-response/|An Afghan-American reports on the US end of the Emergency Evacuation Response]] Entered here on 4 April 2023. [[https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/02/07/what-life-is-like-for-afghan-women-now]] Entered here on 8 February 2023. [[https://twitter.com/hrw/status/1547061000649580546?s=20&t=Gmle76C23jF5L45Lq24KgQ]] Conversation with exiled teachers and women's rights figures, entered here on 8 February 2023. [[Drop Box]] [[Start]]