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DESCRIPTION:WHAT: A Discussion with MALALAI JOYA: "The Bravest Woman in 
 Afghanistan"\n\n*TWO* EVENTS IN BERKELEY ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON!:\n\nWHEN: 
 Sunday November 8, 2:30 - 4:30 pm\nWHERE: Northbrae Community Church, 941 
 The Alameda, Berkeley CA\nhttp://www.gawba.org/current_actions.htm\n\nFOR 
 MORE INFO: call (510-845-3815) or e-mail, marpla2@hotmail.com 
 \n\nAlso:\n\nWHAT: CodePINK Benefit Dinner Featuring: Malalai Joya\nWHEN: 
 Sun, Nov 8, 2009, 6:00 PM\nWHERE: Redwood Gardens Residence Bldg, 2951 
 Derby St, 
 Berkeley\nhttp://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php?uid=10708\n\n\n“A 
 Woman Among Warlords” with Malalai Joya, Afghan politician, at 2:30 p.m. 
 at the Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda. Sponsored by 
 Grandmothers Against the War. 845-3815. \n\nMalalai 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.\n\nOften 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 of 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.\n\nWhile many have talked 
 about the serious plight of women in Afghanistan, Malalai Joya takes us 
 inside the country and shows us the desperate dayto-day situations 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 classrooms for female students.\n\nA 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.\n\nhttp://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php?uid=10677\n\nhttp://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-11-05/events\n\nhttp://books.simonandschuster.com/Woman-Among-Warlords/Malalai-Joya/9781439109465\n\nhttp://www.malalaijoya.com/dcmj/english/44-announcementsevents/117-a-woman-among-warlords-malalai-joya-on-book-tour-in-the-us.html\n\n\n[posted 
 by JA]\n\n-\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/07/18628062.php
SUMMARY:MALALAI JOYA, of the Afghan Parliament!: "The Bravest Woman in Afghanistan" -- Berkeley
LOCATION:WHEN: Sunday November 8, 2:30 - 4:30 pm\nWHERE: Northbrae Community Church, 
 941 The Alameda, Berkeley CA\ndirections & map: 
 http://www.northbrae.org/directions.html\n\nAlso:\n\nWHAT: CodePINK Benefit 
 Dinner Featuring Malalai Joya\nWHEN: Sun, Nov 8, 2009, 6:00 PM\nWHERE: 
 Redwood Gardens Residence Bldg, 2951 Derby St, Berkeley\ndirections & map: 
 http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2951+derby+st.++Berkeley,+ca&ie=UTF8&z=15&om=1&iwloc=addr\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/07/18628062.php
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