[act-ma] LOCATION CHANGE: 3/25, Harvard - "Noam Chomsky & Malalai Joya: The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan"

[Keith Rosenthal]

NEW LOCATION: MEMORIAL 
CHURCH




The 
Case for Withdrawal
from 
Afghanistan
with 
Noam Chomsky and Malalai Joya



Friday, 
March 25, 5:30 pm 
Memorial 
Church, Harvard UniversityOne Harvard Yard(Across from the Harvard Sq. T-Station)



 
Students FREE, $5 suggested 
donation
RSVP 
and invite friends on Facebook at 
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151499161576478
 
Seating is first come, first 
served
 
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"The bravest woman in 
Afghanistan"

   
--BBC News
 
"Joya's life has been singular and 
heroic"

   
--New York Times Book Review
 
"Chomsky is a global phenomenonhe may be the 
most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet"

   
--New York Times Book Review
 
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Malalai Joya is the author of A 
Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Dared Raise Her 
Voice

   
Noam Chomsky is the author of Hopes 
and Prospects, Gaza in Crisis, Hegemony or Survival and many other titles.
 
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AT A CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY in Kabul 
in 2003, Malalai Joya stood up and denounced her countrys powerful 
U.S./NATO-backed warlords. She was only 25 years old. Two years later, she 
became the youngest person elected to Afghanistans new Parliament. In 2007, she 
was suspended for her persistent criticism of the warlords and drug barons. 
Beloved by her people for daring to speak out against U.S.-backed war criminals 
that dominate the government, Joya has survived at least 4 assassination 
attempts. Having come face-to-face with the brutality of war, Joya has been 
demanding an end to the occupation for years. In her book A Woman Among 
Warlords, just out in paperback, Joya explains the situation of ordinary 
Afghans: We are caught between two enemiesthe Taliban on one side and the 
U.S./NATO forces and their warlord allies on the other."


Though Malalai was scheduled to come 
to the U.S. for three weeks as part of this tour, she was denied a visa last 
week. Activists in Boston and around the country are currently in the process of 
contesting this decision. If she cannot be with us in person on Friday,she will 
be joining us via Skype. In addition, Malalai will be joined byworld-renowned 
linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky, internationally recognized as one 
of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today. Though it is 
likely that Malalai will not be with us, we encourage everyone to come hear her 
and Noam Chomsky on Friday both to stand in solidarity with the struggle against 
the repression of dissent voices, and to hear the truth about the ongoing war in 
Afghanistan, a truth that the U.S. has gone to great lengths to surpress.
 
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SPONSORED by: Haymarket Books, 
Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee, Harvard College Human Rights Advocates, 
Harvard GLOW, Harvard International Relations on Campus, UJP 
Afghanistan/Pakistan Task Force, Massachusetts Peace Action, United National 
Antiwar Committee, International Socialist Organization, Harvard College 
International Women's Rights Collective
 
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CONTACT
sarah at haymarketbooks.org


      
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