<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><h1><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Matthew Hoh: A New Way Forward in Afghanistan</font></h1><p>
<strong><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">When:</font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> Thursday, November 4, 2010, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm<br></font><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Where: </font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">First Parish in Cambridge • 3 Church St. - corner of Mass. Ave. • Harvard Sq. T • Cambridge</font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><img alt="A New Way Forward" vspace="5" src="http://masspeaceaction.org/home/images/ANewWayForward.jpg"></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Massachusetts Peace Action and the UJP Afghanistan/Pakistan Task Force present Matthew Hoh speaking on the failure of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. </font></p>
<p><img width="150" vspace="5" hspace="10" align="left" alt="" src="cid:ce05b6d5697d21c6f588a4b4cf657f1c@justicewithpeace.org"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Hoh is the director of the </font><a href="http://www.afghanistanstudygroup.org/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Afghanistan Study Group</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">, a dovish Beltway task force with more than 40 co-authors which released a report in September 2010 calling for all but 30,000 troops to be withdrawn by 2012.</font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Matthew Hoh earned a degree from Tufts University. He served in the Marine Corps, then as a Foreign Service officer in Afghanistan. He resigned from the State Department in 2009 with a devastating public critique of the Administration's Afghanistan policy.</font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Maryam Shansab, an Afghan-American graduate student and member of the UJP Afghanistan/Pakistan Task Force, will introduce Mr. Hoh and moderate the Q&A session.</font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">A donation of $5 is requested to offset costs, but no one will be turned away. Mr. Hoh will also speak to </font><a href="http://justicewithpeace.org/node/1724" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">New Hampshire Peace Action </font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">in Concord on the 5th.</font></p>
</span><br clear="all">-- <br><div>Cole Harrison</div><div>Massachusetts Peace Action</div><div>11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138</div><div>617-354-2169 w</div><div>617-466-9274 m</div><br>