Against All Odds: Voices Of Popular Struggle In Iraq
By Yanar Mohammed in US Labor Against War - My name is Yanar Mohammed and I am an activist from Iraq. I am President and co-founder of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI).
In Iraq, OWFI works to connect our fight for gender justice with the Iraqi workers movement based in a politics of independence from US occupation, regional influence, and the repressive state. Amidst the sectarian violence of rising Islamic fundamentalism across the region – movements that found openings during US-led wars – voices like ours have never been more needed.
In recent months OWFI has expanded our women's safe houses – which the Iraqi government does not allow us to run – for survivors of domestic violence and refugees displaced by ISIS.