[Peace-discuss] ...7:30 tonight, "Life in Iran, A Girl's Story" at Foellinger

[C. G. Estabrook]

  As Fairness And Accuracy (FAIR) points out, “The escalation of the war in 
Afghanistan is treated as something that cannot be debated (see the Sunday chat 
shows) or as the only thing that might save the women of that country (see Time 
magazine's recent propagandistic cover).”

On 10/3/10 4:11 PM, Stuart Levy wrote:
> ...earlier this week, I noticed people energetically chalking
> the UofI Quad with announcements of a talk going on this evening, Sun 10/3:
>    "Life in Iran, A Girl's Story"
> 7:30pm, Foellinger Auditorium, Sunday Oct 3rd
>
> This could be a story of human rights and personal experience in Iran,
> but the flyer suggests that it doesn't end with that.
>
> It shows two faces: an angry caricature of Ahmadinejad, and a quote
> from his recent UN visit, on the subject of the Sept. 11th attacks,
> "Don't you feel that the time has come to have a fact finding committee?"
>
> The other, larger face is of a young girl in hijab, and there's
> a small outline map of Iran.
>
> Then the list of sponsors:
>    Hillel Israel Initiative; Sexual Health Peers; Alpha Epsilon Pi;
>    Phillippine Student Association; Illini Conservatives Union;
>    College Democrats; College Republicans; Chabad;
>    ZBT (Zeta Beta Tau??);
>    StandWithUs (a pro-Israel "anti-hate-speech" group)
>
> If this is a human-rights talk, so be it, but if it's
> an excuse to demonize Iran and argue that regime change is
> regrettable but necessary to protect the rights of women,
> just like it was in Iraq in 1991 (remember the
> babies-dumped-out-of-incubators fabrication) and in 2003,
> and in Afghanistan now, then we should point that out.
>
>
> I'm thinking to go and hope other AWARE people will too.
> At least a couple of people from CIMIC are attending --
> one guy, Martin, came and spoke to Ron S and me about this
> at the Farmer's Market yesterday.
>
>
> (P.S. re human rights: Oliver Stone's film, South of the Border,
> at the New Art through Wed Oct 6th, points out that "human rights"
> has taken the rhetorical place that "freedom" had during the
> Cold War, as an excuse for any kind of intervention.)
>