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Intl’ Women’s Day Film Screening
“A View From a Grain of Sand”
Special Screening for International Women’s Day on March 10, 2007 at 11 am at the Laemmle One Colorado Theater, Pasadena Continue reading
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2nd Annual Fair Trade Crafts Fair
Holiday Gifts with a Conscience!
Saturday December 9th, 11am – 4pm
Echo Park Methodist Church, 1226 N. Alvarado St. Los Angeles, CA
Browse through a large selection of affordable, sweat-shop free crafts made by artisans internationally and locally including embroidered pillow-covers, wallets and purses from Afghanistan, locally made silver jewelry, blankets, scarves and tote-bags, as well as organic fair trade coffee, tea and chocolates, and much more!
There will be refreshments all day long!
All proceeds will directly benefit the artists and workers who made the items.
Call (323) 788-3171 for more information. Organized by RAWA Supporters of Southern California & Afghan Women’s Mission. Continue reading
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‘We are just watching things get worse’
When Britain and America went into Afghanistan in 2001, they claimed that the liberation of the country’s burka-shrouded women was one of their top priorities. So did they deliver? Five years on, Natasha Walter visits Kabul – and is shocked by what she discovers. Continue reading
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NPR Interviews RAWA Member
NPR Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with an Afghan woman who goes by the name of Zoya. Continue reading
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Afghanistan Like a Ticking Bomb, says Women’s Rights Activist on 5th Anniversary of US Bombing
“Today Afghanistan is still chained and burning in the fires of both the Taliban and the criminal ‘Northern Alliance’ fundamentalists and the future of Afghanistan is in serious jeopardy,” warned Zoya, a member of RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) five years after the start of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Zoya is available for interviews during her two week US tour. Call 626-676-7884 to schedule interviews. Continue reading
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Report of RAWA Benefit with Zoya, Eve Ensler, Michelle Shocked, Mimi Kennedy, and Sonali Kolhatkar
October 7th 2006 marked the 5th anniversary of the start of Operation Enduring Freedom. AWM organized a major benefit event for RAWA at Cinespace in Hollywood on Saturday October 7th with special guests Eve Ensler (“Vagina Monologues”, V-day), recording artist Michelle Shocked, actor and activist, Mimi Kennedy & Zoya (RAWA). Plus exclusive a sneak film preview of “A View from a Grain of Sand” by Meena Nanji. The event was hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar (KPFK, AWM).
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“Five Years Later, Afghanistan Still in Flames” – RAWA
Transcript of a speech by RAWA member Zoya at a benefit for RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan), called “Breaking the Propaganda of Silence,” organized by the Afghan Women’s Mission on October 7, 2006.Download an mp3 of the speech: [64 Kbps] [128 Kbps for radio].
October 7th 2001 is a day that many believed to be the beginning of a “new” Afghanistan as the US and its allies started their “War on Terror.” Terror was unknown to the US until the 9/11 tragedy, but for RAWA and the vast majority of our people it was the beginning of another tragedy for Afghan people. Looking back to the US involvement in Afghanistan, one could not expect that the US government would think in the interests of our country. The US policy in the Cold War period has sponsored one terrorist regime after another. All kinds of tyrants have been America’s friends including the Afghan Mujahiddin. Continue reading
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Bleeding Afghanistan
By Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls* “A wake-up call to everyone who thought the war was a success story.” – Eve Ensler Book Description In the years following 9/11, U.S. policy in Afghanistan has received little scrutiny, either from the … Continue reading
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The Other War
KPFK’s Sonali Kolhatkar and Caltech’s Jim Ingalls offer a new way to look at Afghanistan Continue reading
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RAWA Benefit with Eve Ensler, Zoya
October 7th 2006 marks the 5th anniversary of the start of Operation Enduring Freedom; violence is on the rise and women are still struggling for their rights.
Join us for a benefit for RAWA at Cinespace in Hollywood on Saturday October 7th with special guests Eve Ensler (“Vagina Monologues”, V-day), recording artist Michelle Shocked, actor and activist, Mimi Kennedy & Zoya (RAWA). Plus exclusive a sneak film preview of “A View from a Grain of Sand” by Meena Nanji. The event will be hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar (KPFK, AWM). Continue reading
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