Fwd: Malalai Joya events; Please Distribute widely
From: Patty Guerrero (pattypaxearthlink.net)
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:49:49 -0700 (PDT)
Malalai Joya will be speaking at a few different places.   Tues and again on 
Wed, and also on Thurs.   

patty

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> From: sarah martin <scsrn [at] yahoo.com>
> Date: October 14, 2013 11:53:57 AM CDT
> To: Cathy Apostle <caquilt51 [at] aol.com>
> Subject: Malalai Joya events; Please Distribute widely
> Reply-To: sarah martin <scsrn [at] yahoo.com>
> 
> Afghanistan: Twelve years into the U.S. war - An evening with âthe bravest 
> woman in Afghanistanâ
> SPEAKER: MALALAI JOYA
> Tuesday, October 15 @ 7 pm @ Augsburg College - Foss Center, 625 - 22nd 
> Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN
> Author of âMalalai Joya: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Daredto 
> Raise Her Voiceâ.  Malalai Joya has been called âthe bravest Women in 
> Afghanistan.â At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and 
> denounced her countryâs powerful U.S./NATO backed warlords. She was only 25 
> years old. Joya was suspended by the Afghan Parliament in 2007 for her 
> criticism of the warlords and drug barons and their cronies. Although she has 
> received numerous death threats, she has continued to speak out against 
> corruption within her government. She is a staunch defender of human rights, 
> a powerful voice for Afghan women, and an outspoken opponent of the U.S. war 
> and occupation of her country. She is also the recipient of numerous 
> international awards.
> 
> Organized by WAMM End War Committee and Twin Cities Peace Campaign.  
> Co-sponsors: Department of Political Science, Anne Peterson Women's Resource 
> Center and the Sabo Center for Citizenship and Learning of Augsburg College 
> and  U of M Womenâs Student Activist Collective, Anti-War Committee, 
> Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, Minnesota Peace Action Coalition, 
> Socialist Action, Veterans for Peace and others.  
> On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/574729322588944/
> 
> Malalai Joya: A Woman Among Warlords
> Wednesday, October 16 from 12:15â1:05 p.m. @ the U of MN Law School in Room 
> 40 @ Mondale Hall, 229 19th Ave S., Minneapolis
> Lunch provided!  Please join us for lunch with Malalai Joya, activist, writer 
> and ex-MP of Afghan Parliament, as she speaks about ongoing human rights 
> issues in Afghanistan.  Malalai Joya served in the National Assembly of 
> Afghanistan from 2005 until early 2007, after being dismissed for publicly 
> denouncing the presence of what she considered to be warlords and war 
> criminals in that body. In 2010, Time magazine placed Malalai Joya on its 
> annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Foreign Policy 
> Magazine listed Malalai Joya in its annual list of the Top 100 Global 
> Thinkers. On March 8, 2011, The Guardian listed her among the worldâs âTop 
> 100 women: activists and campaignersâ. Sponsored by Amnesty International 
> Legal Support Network (Law School), Women Student Activist Collective, 
> Students for a Democratic Society,Human Rights Program College of Liberal 
> Arts, & Women Against Military Madness.  
> 
> SPEAK! Series: "Malalai Joya: A Woman Among Warlords" 
> Wednesday, October 16th from 4:30 PM  - 6PM â> @ Macalester College - Davis 
> Court, Markim Hall (Grand & Snelling intersection), St. Paul 
> Malalai Joya first gained international attention in 2003 when she spoke out 
> publicly against the domination of warlords in Afghanistan. She was at that 
> time serving as an elected delegate to the Loya Jirga that was convened to 
> ratify the Constitution of Afghanistan. In 2005, she became one of 68 women 
> elected to the 249-seat National Assembly, or Wolesi Jirga, and was the 
> youngest member of the Afghan parliament.An extraordinary young woman raised 
> in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan, Joya became a teacher in secret 
> girlsâ schools, hiding her books under her burqa so the Taliban couldnât find 
> them, and established a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished 
> home province of Farah.In 2007 she was suspended from the parliament for her 
> outspokenness. Since then she has survived six assassination attempts. She 
> travels in Afghanistan with armed guards and has worked tirelessly on behalf 
> of Afghan women and to end the occupation of her country.In 2010, Time 
> Magazine placed Malalai Joya on their annual list of the 100 most influential 
> people in the world. She has also received numerous other accolades.Sponsored 
> by the Lealtad-Suzuki Center in the Department of Multicultural Life.This 
> event is part of the Lealtad-Suzuki Center's ongoing series "SPEAK! A Series 
> of Conscious Conversations." For more information about this event and/or the 
> SPEAK! Series, please contact Karla Benson Rutten, Director of the 
> Lealtad-Suzuki Center, at benson [at] macalester.edu. 

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