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[patty (pattypax]

Malalai Joya will be speaking this Friday night.  I still have 2  
tickets if anyone wants them.  patty

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> From: "braun044" <braun044 [at] tc.umn.edu>
> Date: March 29, 2011 9:46:12 AM CDT
> To: TCPCMn [at] yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [TCPCMn] Malalai Joya in Minneapolis April 1
> Reply-To: TCPCMn-owner [at] yahoogroups.com
>
> Dear Peacemakers,
>
> I just heard from a friend that many people do not know that Malalai  
> Joya got her visa and that she will be speaking at St. Joan of Arc  
> this coming Friday, April 1. So I would appreciate your getting out  
> the word that she is, in fact, coming.
>
> MALALAI JOYA, Author of: "A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary  
> Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice."
>
> TO SPEAK IN MINNEAPOLIS FRIDAY
> St. Joan of Arc
> 4537 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis
> Friday, April 1, 2011, 7:00 pm
> Ticket price: $10.00
>
> Sponsored by Women Against Military Madness and the Twin Cities  
> Peace Campaign
> FOR TICKETS: Call TCPC (612-522-1861) or WAMM (612-827-5364)
>
> Thanks for your help with this.
>
> Peace in the struggle,
>
> Marie Braun
> for Twin Cities Peace Campaign
> 612-522-1861
>
> ********************************
>
> Information from the Cover of her book
>
> Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At  
> a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and  
> denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was  
> twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest  
> person elected to Afghanistan's new Parliament. In 2007, she was  
> suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the  
> warlords and drug barons and their cronies. She has survived four  
> assassination attempts to date, is accompanied at all times by armed  
> guards, and sleeps only in safe houses.
>
> Often compared to democratic leaders such as Burma's Aung San Suu  
> Kyi, this extraordinary young woman was raised in the refugee camps  
> of Iran and Pakistan. Inspired in part by her father's activism,  
> Malalai became a teacher in secret girls' schools, holding classes  
> in a series of basements. She hid her books under her burqa so the  
> Taliban couldn't find them. She also helped establish a free medical  
> clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home province of Farah. The  
> endless wars in Afghanistan have created a generation of children  
> without parents. Like so many others who have lost people they care  
> about, Malalai lost one of her orphans when the girl's family  
> members sold her into marriage.
>
> While many have talked about the serious plight of women in  
> Afghanistan, Malalai Joya takes us inside the country and shows us  
> the desperate day-to-day situation these remarkable people face at  
> every turn. She recounts some of the many acts of rebellion that are  
> helping to change the country--the women who bravely take to the  
> streets in peaceful protest against their oppression; the men who  
> step forward and claim "I am her mahram," so the fundamentalists  
> won't punish a woman for walking alone; and the families that give  
> their basements as classroom for female students.
>
> A controversial political figure in one of the most dangerous places  
> on earth, Malalai Joya is a hero for our times, a young woman who  
> refused to be silent, a young woman committed to making a difference  
> in the world, no matter the cost.
>
>
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