[Stopwar-l] Reminder: TONIGHT Malalai Joya

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Don't miss this special forum and book launch with

Afghanistan's
Malalai Joya in Vancouver

Saturday, November 14

7p.m., St. Andrew's -
Wesley Church
(1022 Nelson St, at the corner of Burrard)

with performance
by
Solidarity Notes Labour Choir

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

Please join us
for
the Canadian launch of Malalai Joya's book, A Woman Among Warlords:
The
Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Speak Out. 
People's Coop
Bookstore will have books available for sale and signing at this event.

"A
chilling, vital memoir that reveals hidden truths about Afghanistan
and
directly addresses the misguided policies of the United States." -
Kirkus Reviews

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 person.

Organized by StopWar.ca.

Sponsors:
Simon ">MORE INFORMATION ON MALALAI JOYA 

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:

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Woman-Among-Warlords/Malalai-Joya/9781439109465
[2]

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. 

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
Afghanistan.

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:
http://afghanwomensmission.org/awmnews/index.php?articleID=85 [3]
For
a complete listing of events with Malalai Joya across Canada (Nov. 13
-
27), see: http://rabble.ca/malalai_joya_tour [4]. 



Links:
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[1]
http://rabble.ca/
[2]
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Woman-Among-Warlords/Malalai-Joya/9781439109465
[3]
http://afghanwomensmission.org/awmnews/index.php?articleID=85
[4]
http://rabble.ca/malalai_joya_tour
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