PASS IT ON
"AFGHANISTAN AS A MODEL FOR IRAQ: THE RHETORIC OF
LIBERATION"
TEACH - IN BY SONALI KOLHATKAR FROM 90.7 KPFK RADIO
WHEN: Tuesday April 25, 2006
TIME: 12:00 - 1:30 PM
WHAT: Sonali Kolhatkar Teach-in
"Afghanistan as a Model
for Iraq:The Rhetoric of Liberation"
WHERE: SSC 212 at Saddleback College, 28000 Marguerite
Parkway, Mission Viejo,CA 92692. Will be taking place in
Room 212 on the 2nd Floor of SSC
(Student Services Center) Building (next to the cafeteria).
For more information, please contact
scavalonclub@yahoo.com You are all invited on TUESDAY April 25, 2006 to join the
Saddleback College Democrats & the Avalon Club at Saddleback
College for a Teach in titled "Afghanistan as a Model for
Iraq: The Rhetoric of Liberation" Presented by SONALI
KOLHATKAR.
Sonali Kolhatkar is the Vice President of The Afghan
Women's Mission, Host of The Morning Show on 90.7 KPFK,
and a writer who has has written numerous published
articles. The 1 1/2 hour teach-in will look at the
"War on Terrorism" that has been waged since 9/11 in
Afghanistan, and the current war in Iraq. It will look at
how the goal of rooting out terrorism quickly turned into
one of liberating the Afghan people from the Taliban. Once
thehunt for Osama Bin Laden proved more difficult that the
Bush Administration imagined, the target quickly became
Iraq. The U.S how now lauched a brutal war against the
Iraqi people, Once more to liberate them through bombs.
Donald Rumsfeld, US Defense Secretary has hailed
Afghanistan as a model for Iraq. What are the implications
of this for the people of Iraq? How will this war effect
the women of Iraq? and what does it mean to be liberate a
people through war? Sonali will attempt to answer these and
more questions at the teach-in.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
DIRECTIONS:
1) Exit I-5 Freeway at CROWN VALLEY PARKWAY
2) Proceed EAST (LEFT) on Crown Valley Parkway a
3) Make a RIGHT on MEDICAL CENTER DRIVE
4) Stay on Medical Center Drive & it will bring you up
across MARGUERITE PARKWAY and into the college entrance
5) Once inside the entrance proceed to parking for free
(for the day)
6) You will need to make your way into the middle of the
college campus and look for a large building titled
SSC (Student Service Center)
7) After entering the SSC building, pass the double doors,
go up the 2nd floor stairs at the top of the stairs, walk
to
the end of the hall and Room 225 will be on your left.
It is right next to the cafeteria.
WHEN: Tuesday April 25, 2006
TIME: 12:00 - 1:30 PM
WHAT: Sonali Kolhatkar Teach-in "Afghanistan as a Model
for Iraq:The Rhetoric of Liberation"
WHERE: Saddleback College, 28000 Marguerite Parkway,
Mission Viejo,CA 92692. Will be taking place in Room 225
on the 2nd Floor of SSC
For a map of Saddleback, please visit:
http://www.saddleback.edu/maps/ For more information, please contact
scavalonclub@yahoo.com OR call 949-582-4422
BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Saddleback College Democrats & Avalon
Club,
BIO. OF SONALI KOLHATKAR:
Up until very recently Sonali Kolhatkar worked as an
Applications Developer at the California Institute of
Technology. She has undergraduate degrees in Physics and
Astronomy from the University of Texas and a Masters degree
in Astrophysics from the University of Hawaii. She now
enjoys waking up before the sun has risen to bring you one
hour of news and analysis on KPFK's Morning Show. Sonali
is the host and co-producer of the Morning Show on KPFK
Radio Los Angeles 90.7 fm, a listener-sponsored community
radio station, which is part of the Pacifica network. The
Morning Show airs from 8 am to 9 am weekdays and is a public
affairs political news magazine. Sonali Kolhatkar is also the
Vice President of the Afghan Women's Mission, a group that works
in solidarity with Afghan women to help improve health and educational
facilities for Afghan refugees in Pakistan. The Afghan
Women's Mission recently helped open a free hospital in
Pakistan for Afghan women and children refugees. Sonali has
spoken out about women's rights and human rights in
Afghanistan as well as the responsibility of the US to the
people of Afghanistan. Her piece entitled, "By Any Standard,
This is a War