[Nettime-bold] the OTHER America Welcomes the OTHER Afghanistan

["Ivo Skoric" <ivo@reporters.net>]

the OTHER America Welcomes
the OTHER Afghanistan

AN EVENING OF INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH RAWA

-- the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Must we choose a “lesser evil” -- the terrorist attacks of September 11 or the U.S. government's war on Afghanistan? Or is it possible to turn a different vision of the future into a reality -- a future of freedom, human dignity, cooperation, and genuine safety? Who are our allies in helping to realize this vision?

Come listen to and speak with Tameena Faryal, representative of RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.

RAWA is an independent, all-volunteer, non-violent organization that calls for multilateral disarmament and the establishment of a secular democracy in Afghanistan, where women may once again participate fully in public life.

Since 1977, the women of RAWA have stood up to all native and foreigner oppressors with courage and principle. They opposed the Russian occupation of Afghanistan and today they oppose all Islamic fundamentalist forces, including both the Taliban and those in the Northern Alliance.

On September 14, RAWA condemned the September 11 attacks as a barbaric act of violence and terror; opposed a U.S. military attack that would kill thousands of innocent Afghans for the crimes committed by the Taliban and Osama; and expressed its sincere hope that the great American people can differentiate between the people of Afghanistan and a handful of fundamentalist terrorists.

While the Taliban have outlawed education for women beyond the second grade, and deny them the few social services that exist in Afghanistan, RAWA secretly -- and under the threat of death -- provides schooling for girls and boys, as well as medical care and adult education for women. In neighboring Pakistan, it provides Afghan refugees with aid, runs orphanages, and sponsors income- generating projects.

Date: Sunday, October 28, 2001
Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time begins that day)
Place: Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South
(between Thompson and Sullivan Streets), Manhattan

The meeting is free and open to the public, but no cameras
and no news media will be allowed. Seating is limited.

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Program of the October 28 Meeting

Welcome (6:30-6:40)

Anne Jaclard, News and Letters Committees (Marxist-Humanists)

Introduction (6:40-6:50)

TBA, Women for Afghan Women

MAIN ADDRESS (6:50-7:40)

TAHMEENA FARYAL, Representative of RAWA

(Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan)

Open Discussion, Questions and Answers (7:40- 8:30)

The meeting is organized by the New York Local of News and Letters Committees (Marxist-Humanists), www.newsandletters.org; nandl@igc.org. For more information, or to co-sponsor the meeting (organizations only, please), call News and Letters at (212) 663-3631.

Sponsors (List in Formation)

Brecht Forum

Education Committee of the NY Not in Our Name anti-war coalition

FED-UP (Federation for URPE Pluralism)

Hegel class of Brecht Forum

NY News and Letters Committee (Marxist- Humanists)

NY Transfer News

NOW - NYC (National Organization for Women)

Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory

WILPF NY Metro (Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom)

Women for Afghan Women

Women in Black - NY

To assist with the national RAWA tour, please contact rawa_afg@yahoo.com.

For background information on RAWA and to support women’s peaceful

resistance in Afghanistan, please visit www.rawa.org

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