[Peace-discuss] Fw: ACTION: Urge Your Members of Congress to Hear Experts from Afghanistan

[Jenifer Cartwright]

For those inclined to put all those earnest words into action...
 --Jenifer

--- On Tue, 6/2/09, Robert Greenwald <info at bravenewfoundation.org> wrote:


From: Robert Greenwald <info at bravenewfoundation.org>
Subject: ACTION: Urge Your Members of Congress to Hear Experts from Afghanistan
To: jencart13 at yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 2:40 PM


































Dear Jenifer, 





 

1. Watch this video

2. Call your member of Congress


I'm in Washington, D.C. this week for the America's Future Now! conference, where Brave New Foundation is helping bring together a panel of experts from Afghanistan to discuss the war with members of Congress. Today, from June 2, 5:30-6:30 PM in Room 2101 of the Rayburn House Office Building, there will be a briefing for congressional members and staff entitled: "Rethink Afghanistan: A View from the Ground." Please call your members of Congress in the House or Senate and ask them to meet us as we Rethink Afghanistan. 

The following experts will discuss their perspective on issues facing Afghanistan with a focus on women's rights and empowerment: 



Dr. Roshanak Wardak is an MP in the Afghan parliament. She is one of the few MPs who represent nearly 1 million people in their province. She is also a gynecologist and spent many years working with Afghan women in refugee camps in Pakistan.


Ann Jones is the author of eight books of nonfiction, most recently Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan. She spent the last eight years doing humanitarian work in conflict zones-four of them in Afghanistan-and is now working on a book about the impact of war on women worldwide.


Anand Gopal is a journalist covering the "Global War on Terror" from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia to the United States. He is a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, a contributor to The Huffington Post, and a blogger.All three of these experts either currently live or have recently resided in Afghanistan, and they offer a profound understanding of the complex issues involved in this war. Help them engage elected officials, policymakers, think tank experts, and others by calling the offices of your members of Congress at once. 

Yours, 

Robert Greenwald 
and the Brave New Foundation team 









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