[Stopwar-l] Malalai Joya in Vancouver media!

Thu Nov 12 14:46:41 PST 2009

Greetings StopWar supporters,

We know that you must be getting excited
about Malali Joya coming to Vancouver November 14th just as we are. All the
information is found below. Malalai Joya will also be appearing in local
media and you can catch these exciting interviews as follows:

*Friday, Nov
13, CBC Radio, station 690.a.m. Almanac, 12pm.
*Friday, Nov 13 CBC
Newsworld (in Vancouver, Channel 26) Power and Politics between 1 -
3p.m.

*Georgia Straight interview with Malalai Joya found at: 

http://www.straight.com/article-270310/vancouver/afghan-activist-wants-natos-mission-end
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*Please forward widely*

Malalai Joya in Vancouver

Saturday,
November 14
7p.m., St. Andrew's - Wesley Church 
1022 Nelson St, at the
corner of Burrard

Suggested Donation: $5-10
All proceeds will go towards
Joya's humanitarian projects in Afghanistan.

Please join us for this
special event: the Canadian launch of Malalai
Joya's book, A Woman Among
Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan
Who Dared to Speak Out,
which Kirkus Reviews calls, "A chilling, vital
memoir that reveals hidden
truths about Afghanistan and directly addresses
the misguided policies of
the United States."

Co-written with StopWar activist and writer Derrick
O'Keefe, A Woman Among
Warlords is an important and timely book. Malalai
Joya's personal story is
inspiring, and her political message is an
uncompromising appeal for an
end to NATO's occupation of Afghanistan and
the impunity of the warlords
in the Karzai regime. Don't miss this rare
chance to hear Malalai Joya in

Organized by StopWar.ca.

Sponsors: Simon &
Schuster Canada, the Canadian Peace Alliance, Voice of
Women - Canada,
rabble.ca, Iranian Centre for Peace, Freedom and Social

Malalai Joya, the
young woman who the BBC has hailed as the 'bravest in
Afghanistan,' has
published her memoirs, A Woman Among Warlords: The
Extraordinary Story of
an Afghan Woman Who Dared to Speak Out. You can
purchase the book at your
local independent bookstore, or online now at:

Joya, now 31, was the
youngest ever woman elected to the Afghan Parliament
in 2005 and is an
outspoken critic of the Karzai government and NATO
occupation. She will be
touring North America between Oct. 23 and Nov. 27
to speak about her new
memoir, co-written with Canadian activist and
writer Derrick O'Keefe.

With
U.S. President Obama considering escalating the war in Afghanistan
with
over 40,000 more troops -- and the Canadian government signaling that
this
country's forces will in fact not be coming home at the end of 2011
--
Joya's speaking tour and book release is timely.

"Afghan women like me,
voting and running for office, have been held up as
proof that the United
States has brought democracy and women's rights to
Afghanistan," Joya
writes. "But it is all a lie."

Her book tells the story of her life in the
context of three decades of
war. Joya details her reasons for opposing
NATO's war and suggests
concrete steps for building an independent and
genuinely democratic

Malalai Joya, often compared to Burma's Aung San Suu
Kyi, has emerged as a
symbol of Afghans' desire for freedom from
corruption, warlordism and
foreign occupation. Her father, who lost a leg
fighting the Soviet
occupation of Afghanistan, named her after a 19th
century hero in the
fight against the British Empire, Malalai of
Maiwand.

Today, Joya brings to a North American audience the lessons
of
Afghanistan's long history of occupation and resistance. And she hopes
her
book will "correct the tremendous amount of misinformation being
spread
about Afghanistan."

"Afghans are sometimes represented in the media
as a backward people,
nothing more than terrorists, criminals and henchmen.
This false image is
extremely dangerous for the future of both my country
and the West. The
truth is that Afghans are brave and freedom loving people
with a rich
culture and a proud history. We are capable of defending our
independence,
governing ourselves and determining our own future."

For
book tour details in the United States (Oct. 23 - Nov. 12), see:

For a
complete listing of events with Malalai Joya across Canada (Nov. 13
- 27),
see: http://rabble.ca/malalai_joya_tour.

See Malalai Joya's breakthroughs
into the mainstream media earlier in her book tour here, a reflection of
growing doubts about the war. 

CNN (Domestic and international):

-GritTV
with Laura Flanders:

-Democracy Now!

-NPR Talk of the
Nation:

http://www.straight.com/article-270310/vancouver/afghan-activist-wants-natos-mission-endperson.Justice.http://www.amazon.com/Woman-Among-Warlords-Extraordinary-Afghan/dp/143910946X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255692565&sr=1-1orhttp://books.simonandschuster.com/Woman-Among-Warlords/Malalai-Joya/9781439109465Afghanistan.http://afghanwomensmission.org/awmnews/index.php?articleID=85http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2009/10/28/malalai-joya-and-the-tale-of-2-cnns/#athttp://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2009/10/28/malalai-joya-afghanistan/http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2009/10/27/malalai_joya#athttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5

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http://www.straight.com/article-270310/vancouver/afghan-activist-wants-natos-mission-end
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http://www.straight.com/article-270310/vancouver/afghan-activist-wants-natos-mission-end
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