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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 Begin forwarded message: > 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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