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Title: "AFGHANISTAN AS A MODEL FOR IRAQ: THE RHETORIC OF
START DATE: 4/25/2006
START TIME: 12:00 PM
Duration: 1 Hours
Location:
Location Details:
Saddleback College - Mission Viejo CA
Event Topic:
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DESCRIPTION:
\\"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 WEDNESDAY 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 two

hours 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 7 am to 9 am weekdays (except Fridays

from 8 am to 9 am) 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 Against Afghans\\" was published as part of a

series of essays in \\"September 11th: Feminist Perspective\\",

and online at www.zmag.org And www.commondreams.org.

Sonali\\'s latest article entitled \\"The Impact of US

Intervention on Afghan Women\\'s Rights\\" appears in the

Summer issue of the Berkeley Women\\'s Law Journal. Sonali

has been asked to speak at many venues, commenting on

current political affairs, from independent media, to third

party politics, and recently, the impending war in Iraq.

Sonali is also one half of \\"Love and Subversion\\", a

Pasadena-based music band, along with her husband, Jim

Ingalls. She sings, paints,sews, cooks, and dabbles in web

design.

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