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« Friday October 30, 2009 »
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Ralph Nader book talk Start: 2:00 pm Ralph Nader will be on a book signing tour in Connecticut and Boston this week. Ralph will be speaking and holding Q/A sessions about single payer national health insurance. And he'll be signing his new book -- his first book of fiction -- Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! (Seven Stories Press, 2009). A Woman Among Warlords Start: 2:30 pm End: 3:30 pm 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. 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. She will be speaking in the Boston area between October 29-31 as part of a North American tour to speak about her new memoir, co-written with Canadian activist and writer Derrick O’Keefe. With U.S. President Obama considering escalating the war in Afghanistan with over 40,000 more troops, 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.” Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine Start: 6:30 pm Prof. Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine Speaking this week: Thur October 29 Noon Harvard Law School, Pound 335 Sponsored by Justice for Palestine, a Harvard Law School Student Organization 7pm E5 in Chinatown (fifth floor of 33 Harrison Ave - near the Downtown Crossing subway) E5 Forum is very comfortable with having as few as five and as many as fifty people at an event. The point of the event is not the numbers but, in the spirit of the Social Forum process, building productive social relationships across political and thematic differences - hence the comfort with a small audience. After the event - at around 9pm - we usually all go out for dinner at a nearby restaurant. Friday October 30 6:30pm MIT, Room 4-337 Violence and Impunity in Guatemala Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:00 pm Speaker: Gladys Monterroso Gladys Monterroso is a Guatemalan lawyer, university professor, secretary for the Encuentro por Guatemala political party, and wife of the Guatemalan Human Rights Ombudsman, Sergio Morales. Gladys was kidnapped and tortured in March 2009. Gladys is touring various U.S. cities with the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA to speak out on violence and impunity in Guatemala, and the need for immigration reform here in the U.S. ?I speak out in order to break the silence and impunity, to put an end to the uncontrollable violence in Guatemala that forces thousands to migrate to the US,? she said. Gladys' talk at MIT is co-sponsored by the MIT chapter of Amnesty International, the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA, the Guatemala Solidarity Committee of Boston, and Amnesty International Local Group 133 of Somerville. Open to: the general public Sponsor(s): Amnesty International Special Guest: Ralph Nader Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:00 pm America’s stalwart fighter against corporate abuse, best selling author and presidential candidate will talk about new strategies to build economic equality and his new book, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us. In his first work of fiction, Nader tells the story of what would happen if the country’s richest and most powerful decided to act for the common good, challenging corporate power and fixing our government - in a way that actually benefited hard working families. This is his only Boston-area book appearance! Praise for “ONLY THE SUPER-RICH CAN SAVE US” A Woman Among Warlords: Malalai Joya Denounces U.S. War in Afghanistan Start: 7:00 pm 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. 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. She will be speaking in the Boston area between October 29-31 as part of a North American tour to speak about her new memoir, co-written with Canadian activist and writer Derrick O’Keefe. With U.S. President Obama considering escalating the war in Afghanistan with over 40,000 more troops, 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.”

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