Action for Monday

I've decided to postpone our post on Zainab Salbi and Women for Women International to post this call to action found by OMB's advocacy and research assistant, Sarah Martinez.

Libya is on all of our minds right now.  For some of us it raises difficult questions, some of us are sure of where we stand on the issue. Despite differing political views, we must recognize that civilians are suffering.

Many of us listened with horror to the news reports telling the story of Eman al-Obaidi, who rushed into a crowd of journalists in a hotel in Libya, telling them she was raped by Gaddafi military forces.  She was dragged away by security forces and has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared.

Click HERE for a link to the original story.

For me, this is the crux of the horror and cruelty that we are seeing around the world; that the people in power and the people fighting for them refuse to make the distinction between military and civilians. As people of conscience we have to send a message that civilians must be protected. Please take a moment to sign this PETITION calling for Eman's immediate release. It's one small individual action, but as all of us at One Million Bones believe, enough of these individual actions will, eventually, make a difference.