hi :) a few things..i'm starting the banners again to help pay for the cost of anacam. i didn't want to, but i could find no other alternative! i'm going to try my best to only choose banners that go to places that i like, so far so good! our first banner is to eschaton books! please help to support anacam by clicking on the banner and perusing through this site!

if u are not a member of ana2, at least help to support anacam by clicking on the banner and look around, because this will help keep the refesh rate on anacam low! thank u SO much :)

i am having only one banner up at a time for the lowest annoyance factor and so that one banner gets the most attention. the rates are as low as $50 a day( in case u r interested in buying a banner). it's quite a deal considering around 10,000 to 20,000 people per day go to anacam on the average!

another feature i've added to anacam is "anagram". each month i will post my favourite anagram from ana2 on anacam :) ( anagrams are a semi-daily thing on ana2) so the 1st one is up now, if you'd like to check it out :) just click on menu, then on anagram.

i now have a link for the remote cam under the banner.

i'm starting to get all the press i've received together ( that i have or that i know of) and i'm going to put that all in "analyze" soon. :)

also, in the "anadoll" section...that is open to anyone who would like to make me into some sort of online doll. a paper doll to cut out...etc...if u r interested in doing your version of an anadoll, go ahead and make one and then put it up on a website for me to see it, if u can or if the file is small, send it to me at :anamothership@hotmail.com

i'm also now collecting dreams that people had about me ( or i was in). if you've had a dream i was in...and you'd like 2 write it down and send it to me, i'd be delighted to read it and save it for the anadream section i have not yet started

also, i want to start an "ugliest of ana" section. if u ever see a REALLY super ugly picture of me on cam ( not hard to find!). y'know the ones where my eyes are 1/2 closed and i look like i'm in mid-sneeze and the lighting makes me look dead.. send them to: anamothership@hotmail.com hehe :)

and last but not least, i'm starting a new section that does not have a name yet. it will be only for ana2 members 2 participate.. as i wrote on yesterday's anagram for ana2: "I have an idea for us. it would be like the old mail art in a way. the idea is this. I start a picture..it could be a drawing or photo or both..then I send it 2 the next person and that person then paints over it/chops it up/renders it/interprets it how s/he wants..then sends it 2 the next person who in turn does their "thing" onto it. then when it has finally made the rounds 2 each person, I will put up each person's version in the succession that it happened, and we can see what it turned into..from 1st to last :) wouldn't that be cool 2 see? we could do this once a month. if u are interested, email me at ana101@hotmail.com and I'll see how many people are interested in participating :) I guess how it would work is that as soon as you've ( if u r a participant) finished your version, u send it to me, as well as sending it to the next person, that way I'll make sure 2 get them all and save them. any suggestions as 2 what we could call this new section, if people want to give it a go? "

these are some of the things i'm working on! and now i must go get in the shower and get ready to go do a bunch of errands outside in the yucky cold.

that's it for now :) ana

P.S.

WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN

The government of Afghanistan is waging a war upon women. 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 burqa 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 skyrocketing 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 burqa, 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, often to death, for exposing an inch of flesh or offending them in 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 subhuman 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 the 1930's were lynched, prohibited from voting and forced to submit to unjust jim crow laws.