[Stopwar-l] Tuesday event featuring Malalai Joya / Media links to share

[StopWar]

A reminder about Tuesday evening's event featuring Malalai Joya. There
will be tickets available at the door. Please share this notice, as well
as the following links.

-Vancouver Sun article: 'Afghan activist calls for end to NATO
'occupation' of her country'
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Afghan+activist+calls+NATO+occupation+country/3654044/story.html

-Video preview of Malalai Joya speaking tour:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY4DcmZQSu4&feature=player_embedded

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*Please forward widely*

Tickets will be available at the door!

Real Aid, True Solidarity:
Anti-War Benefit Evening for Afghanistan and Palestine

Featuring Malalai Joya

Tuesday, Oct. 12
7pm (Doors at 6:30pm)
at W2 Storyeum
151 W. Cordova (Between Cambie and Abbott). Five minute walk from
Waterfront Skytrain St, accessible by transit.

Tickets: $10-$20 sliding scale, at People's Coop Books, 1391 Commercial
Dr. There will also be some tickets available at the door.

Main program will also feature:
- Solidarity Notes Labour Choir
- MC: Author Charles Demers
- Music by Joaquin Ernesto
- Amal Rana on 'Af-Pak' war and flood disaster in Pakistan
-Sid Shniad of Independent Jewish Voices
- Gaza flotilla activist Kevin Neish... and more

Followed by a special W2 After Party with Live Afghan music and songs by
Majid Qiyam, cash bar - 9pm until late

Join us in raising funds for a free medical clinic in Afghanistan and for
the Canadian Boat to Gaza

"Today the soil of Afghanistan is full of land mines, bullets, and bombs
-- when what we really need is an invasion of hospitals, clinics, and
schools for boys and girls." - Malalai Joya

Information

Malalai Joya was the youngest woman elected to Afghanistan’s parliament in
2005, but was expelled from her position and has faced five assassination
attempts because of her opposition to the warlords in the Karzai regime
and her fearless advocacy of women’s rights. She has emerged as one of the
most prominent voices against NATO’s war, with TIME magazine recently
naming her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

With the Canadian government threatening to extend Canada’s support of the
occupation of Afghanistan beyond 2011, this special evening is an
important chance to hear directly from an Afghan women’s leader about the
war.

In addition, your contributions will go towards bringing genuine aid to
the people directly affected by Canadian foreign policy in both
Afghanistan and Palestine. Money raised will be go to support two very
worthy causes:

-The Canadian Boat to Gaza, a civil society initiative to challenge the
siege of Gaza and deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid. A cross-Canada
effort is currently underway to raise funds to send a Canadian Boat as
part of the next international flotilla organized by the Free Gaza
Movement (See http://canadaboatgaza.org/)

-Malalai Joya’s Defense Committee, which provides much needed financial
support to Hamoon Clinic, a free medical facility in Farah Province, and
which works to support other grassroots health and education projects
throughout Afghanistan. (See
http://www.malalaijoya.com/dcmj/donate-to-joya.html)

Organized by StopWar.ca. For more information, email stopwar at resist.ca.

Sponsored by W2 Storyeum (http://www.creativetechnology.org/)

Media Sponsor: rabble.ca