Saving America from Smart Afghan Schoolgirls -

[packman]

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Schoolgirls attend an outdoor classroom led by a teacher who returned to the school after having acid thrown in her face

"... (An) all-girl team from the city of Herat in Afghanistan has been invited to the United States to participate in the prestigious FIRST Robotic Competition. Despite great difficulty in obtaining both supplies and instruction, the girls have worked hard to design, construct, and program a robot for the competition. With the help of the first female tech CEO in the nation, they’re polished their skills and prepared. And they’ve literally risked their lives to be a part of the contest.


To interview for their visas, the girls risked a 500 mile trek cross-country to the American embassy in Kabul – the site of several recent suicide attacks and one deadly truck bomb in early June that killed at least 90 people.

Their application for a visa? Denied. The girls even made a second journey to revisit the embassy. Denied again. There is still a chance that their robot is coming to America.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/30/1676753/-Saving-America-from-smart-schoolgirls-Afghan-teenagers-denied-visa-for-robotics-competition

[MedusaX]

1. This is a perfect example of exactly how much damage *45 has done in less than 180 days.

There is no term which sufficiently describes the breadth and depth of the deconstruction of state which has already occurred... both functionally and philosophically.

Unfuckingbelievable.