2 ANNOUNCMENTS
1) MONDAY MARCH 24, EMERGENCY ANTI-WAR RALLY @ SADDLEBACK COLLEGE
2) WED. MARCH 9, SONALI KOLHATKAR & TAHMEENA FARYAL @ SADDLEBACK
COLLEGE
3) Vandana Shiva at Saddleback April 2nd
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THERE IS GOING TO BE AN EMERGENCY ANTI-WAR PROTEST ON MONDAY MARCH 4
AT SADDLEBACK COLLEGE IN ORANGE COUNTY.
***Please bring your signs, voices, and bullhorns***
ANTI-WAR RALLY & COMMUNITY OPEN MIC. SESSION!
SADDLEBACK COLLEGE JOINS IN PROTEST AGAINST WAR!
CAMPUS ANTI-WAR PROTEST/RALLY
OUR DEMANDS:
- STOP THE BOMBING ON IRAQ! No Blood For Oil
- No Racist Scapegoat
- No Racial Profiling of students on/off campus
- No Military Recruitment on Campus
- Money for education, health care, and jobs
- USA out of the middle east
Use YOUR voice and join Saddleback college students, faculty, and
community residents at an emergency Anti-War Rally on Monday March
24, 2003 as we come together in conservative South Orange County and
show that even in this white-bread little town there are plenty of
people who will stand up and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! STOP THE BOMBING
NOW!
WHEN: Monday March 24, 2003
TIME: 11:00-2:00 PM
WHERE: Main Quad (located next to the Main bookstore & Admissions
and Records office)
SADDLEBACK COLLEGE IS LOCATED: 28000 Marguerite Pkwy., Mission
Viejo, CA 92692 ( 5 Freeway & Crown Valley Parkway, Mission Viejo)
Please bring your own sack lunch for an outdoor picnic after rally.
Let your voice be heard, bring your signs, noise makers, and most
importantly yourself !
SPONSORED BY CAMPUS CLUBS: Avalon Club, Gay Straight Students
Alliance, Poetry Club, Sign Language club
MORE INFORMATION: scavalonclub@yahoo.com
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"Those of us who love peace must organize as
effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the
propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda
of peace."---Martin Luther King Jr.
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SAVE THE DATE: WED. APRIL 9!!!
"AFGHANISTAN AS A MODEL FOR IRAQ: THE RETHORIC
OF LIBERATION"
THE WAR IN IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN IS NOT JUST A WAR AGAINST MUSLIMS OR
PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST, BUT A WAR ON HUMANITY AND THE WORLD!
Wednesday April 9, 2003, 12:00-1:30 PM
SADDLEBACK COLLEGE GYM (P.E 200)
28000 Marguerite Pkwy. Mission Viejo, CA 92692
FREE PARKING FOR EVENT IN LOTS # 13 & 5
A Teach – In by SONAL KOLHATKAR Vice President of
the AFGHAN WOMEN'S MISSION & Host of the MORNING
SHOW on KPFK 90.7 FM
&
TAHMEENA FARYAL of the Revolutionary Association of
the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
THEY WILL BE SPEAKING ABOUT AND TRYING TO ANSWER SOME OF THE
FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
• Have the women and people of Afghanistan really been
liberated by US bombs?
• Does the replacement of one fundamentalist terrorist
regime in Afghanistan with another really root out
terrorism and what might this foretell for Iraq?
• What challenges do the democratically minded people
of Afghanistan and the world still face and how is
RAWA addressing them?
* The many reasons why humans beings from around the world
need to come together and take a stand against war.
THE WAR IN IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN IS NOT JUST A WAR AGAINST MUSLIMS OR
PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST, BUT A WAR ON HUMANITY AND THE WORLD!
For more information Contact:
949-436-1188
OR
scavalonclub@yahoo.com
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 target 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 the hunt for Osama Bin Laden proved
more difficult that the Bush Administration imagined,
the target quickly became Iraq. The U.S is now on the
verge of launching 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 affect the women of Iraq? and what does it
mean to be liberate a people through war? Sonali will
will attempt to answer these and more questions at the
teach-in.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC & ALL CAMPUS CLUBS
Tahmeena Faryal is one of the leading spokeswomen of
the Revolutionary Association of the Women of
Afghanistan (RAWA). She is in her twenties, very
eloquent and has a good grasp of English. In October
2001, Tahmeena testified in front of the Subcommittee
of the US House on International Operations and Human
Rights. Tahmeena was born in Afghanistan and raised
in Pakistani refugee camps. She joined RAWA at a young
age after attending a school run by RAWA members.
Today she travels around the world speaking out on
behalf of Afghan women and their rights. Tahmee na also
works on RAWA's various projects in Pakistani refugee
camps and
inside Afghanistan when she is not traveling.
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of
Afghanistan (RAWA) is the oldest political women's
organization in Afghanistan. RAWA was founded in 1977
and after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, they
joined the anti-Soviet resistance and rejected the
fundamentalist ideologies of the US-backed Mujahadeen.
RAWA also strongly denounced the Taliban and today
they reject the Northern Alliance who comprise much of
Afghanistan's government. RAWA has been at the
forefront of the Afghan women's movement - they
maintain that a secular and democratic government in
Afghanistan, which ensures the rights of women
alongside men, is the only solution for peace and
stability in their country. In addition to RAWA's
political work of organizing demonstrations and
political campaigns, RAWA also coo rdinates
humanitarian projects. These include the newlyopened Malalai Hospital
in Pakistan for Afghan
refugees, a sustainable farming project in Afghanistan
and scores of schools, orphanages, adult literacy
courses and income generating courses for Afghan women
and children. To find out more about RAWA, visit there
website at www.rawa.org.
Please invite anyone who might be interested and
forward this invitation freely (especially if you are
on any list-serves).
DIRECTIONS:
Driving Directions:
For detailed, street-by-street directions to
Saddleback College, log onto Mapquest
(www.mapquest.com). From there, click on 'Driving
Directions' - enter in your starting address. Enter
the following address in to 'To' field:
28000 Marguerite Pkwy.
Mission Viejo, CA 92692
Mapquest will then provide detailed driving
instructions to Saddleback College from the location
you specify.
North or Southbound on the Interstate 5 Freeway:
1. Exit Avery
2. Tur n East on Avery
3. Cross Marguerite Parkway and
go left into Saddleback College Avery Entrance
or
1. Exit Crown Valley
2. Turn East
3. Turn RIGHT on Medical Center Drive
4. Cross Marguerite Parkway into College Drive
Entrance
FREE PARKING FOR EVENT IN LOT # 13 & 5
NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY OR VIDEO TAPING ALLOWED PLEASE!!
For more information, please contact
scavalonclub@yahoo.com
OR 949-436-1188
BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Saddleback College Avalon Club,
Sign Language Club, Poetry Club, and The Gay &
Straight Alliance Club & Saddleback College Students
Against War
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#4 Vandana Shiva at Saddleback April 2nd
DESPAIRity
A teach-in about the inequalities between
first and third world countries.
April 2nd (Wednesday)
12PM - 1:30PM
Gymnasium (Room PE 200)
Saddleback College
Mission Viejo, California
Vandana Shiva will be speaking at Saddleback College
about the growing inequalities between first and third
world countries. What are the responsibilities first world
countries have to third world countries? Do we have any?
Have our activities contributed in any way to their conditions?
These are some of the questions Dr. Shiva will address
as well as the solutions on how we can create a global
democracy and smash the economic apartheid. Please
join us in examining the issues surrounding corporate
power, globalization, economic disparities, international
aid, and patent rights.
After the event, Dr. Shiva's books will be available for
sale for a special book signing.
VANDANA SHIVA
Born in India in 1952, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned
environmental leader and thinker. Director of the Research
Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, she is
the author of many books, including Water Wars: Pollution,
Profits, and Privatization (South End Press, 2001),
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
(South End Press, 1997),
Monocultures of the Mind (Zed, 1993), The Violence of the
Green Revolution (Zed, 1992), and Staying Alive
(St. Martin's Press, 1989).
Shiva is a leader in the International Forum on
Globalization, along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin.
She addressed the World Trade Organization summit in
Seattle, 1999, as well as the recent World Economic Forum
in Melbourne, 2000. In 1993, Shiva won the Alternative Nobel
Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award). The founder of
Navdanya ("nine seeds"), a movement promoting diversity
and use of native seeds, she also set up the Research
Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in her
mother's cowshed in 1997. Its studies have validated the
ecological value of traditional farming and been instrumental
in fighting destructive development projects in India.
Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India's
leading physicists. She holds a master's degree in the
philosophy of science and a Ph.D. in particle physics.
EVENT SUMMARY
WHEN: Wednesday, April 2, 12PM -1:30PM
WHERE: Saddleback College, 28000 Marguerite Parkway, Mission Viejo,
CA
92692. The event will be taking place in PE 200 (the campus
gymnasium).
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public; Parking is $1 for a daily
permit
or
$0.25/ hour at the parking meters. There is also free parking areas
around
the campus.
DIRECTIONS
1) Take the 5 Freeway.
2) Exit Avery (make a left off the exit if you're taking the 5 South
and
make a right if you're taking the 5 North).
3) Go straight and pass Marguerite.
4) Make your first left into Saddleback College (you will see the
electronic
marquees).
5) Make a right at the stop sign to get on College Drive East.
6) You will see the gymnasium on your left. It is located at the
corner
of
College Drive East and Service Road (a very small road shortly after
Lower
Campus Drive). If you reach Library Drive, you have gone too far.
For a map of Saddleback, please visit:
http://www.saddleback.cc.ca.us/maps/
