Thousands of Veiled Yemeni Muslim Women protest for the right to protest.

So many of us here in the US complain that we can't do anything.  Perhaps we've gotten a little too complacent.  And here are women protesting against a ruthless, US backed dictatorship.  And what's happening in Bahrain?  It is not an accident that US media coverage of the slaughter and oppressive response of protesters in that absolute monarchy  has gone from the landscape.  They want us to forget about Bahrain after the US stooges, the Saudi's went in to squash protests.


From Al Jazeera English

Thousands of women have protested in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, and other cities against remarks by Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president, that it is un-Islamic for women to join men in the demonstrations against his rule.

The women, many clad in black dress with full face veils, said their role in protests was religiously sound and called on the president to step down in line with nearly three months of demonstrations demanding his resignation. Read on