Those of you who are near Toronto: I’ll be speaking, along with my good friends Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls, this Thursday September 21 at 7pm at the University of Toronto’s Bahen Centre. The event announcement is below. See you there.
OPIRG – Toronto Presents…
BLEEDING AFGHANISTAN:
Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence
Book Launch and Public Forum
-Sonali Kolhatkar
-James Ingalls
-Justin Podur
Thursday, September 21st
7 PM
Bahen Centre, Room 1130
40 St. George St (just north of College)
University of Toronto
Books will be available – Bring cash only!
Those of you who are near Toronto: I’ll be speaking, along with my good friends Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls, this Thursday September 21 at 7pm at the University of Toronto’s Bahen Centre. The event announcement is below. See you there.
OPIRG – Toronto Presents…
BLEEDING AFGHANISTAN:
Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence
Book Launch and Public Forum
-Sonali Kolhatkar
-James Ingalls
-Justin Podur
Thursday, September 21st
7 PM
Bahen Centre, Room 1130
40 St. George St (just north of College)
University of Toronto
Books will be available – Bring cash only!
In the years following 9/11, U.S. policy in Afghanistan has received
little scrutiny, either from the media or the public. Despite official
claims of democracy and women’s freedom, Afghanistan has yet to emerge
from the ashes of decades-long war.
Canada has been alongside the US in Afghanistan since the beginning.
Canada is currently the leading the UN-Sanctioned NATO-led International
Stabilization Assistance Force (ISAF) with over 2000 troops. The
Department of National Defence states that Canada is in Afghanistan to,
“Defend Canadian interests at home and abroad by preventing Afghanistan
from relapsing into a failed state that provides a safe haven for
terrorists and terrorist organizations.” This reasoning is clearly in line
with the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror.’ Yet, Afghanistan is just
one example of Canada’s shifting role and robust support for a pre-emptive
and aggressive foreign policy. With Canadian PM Stephen Harper calling
Israeli bombings of Lebanon a ‘measured response’ and Canadian General
Rick Hillier calling those on the receiving end of Canada’s Afghan war
‘detestable murderers and scumbags,’ the Canadian government and armed
forces have committed to a bloody policy in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Join Sonali Kolhatkar, James Ingalls, and Justin Podur as they explain and
discuss the history of US intervention in Afghanistan as well as Canada’s
current role and intentions in the country. Bleeding Afghanistan:
Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence by Sonali Kolhatkar
and James Ingalls highlights the injustice of U.S. policies in Afghanistan
historically and in the post-9/11 era.
SONALI KOLHATKAR and JAMES INGALLS are the co-authors of the new book,
Bleeding Afghanistan (www.bleedingafghanistan.com), and co-directors of
the Afghan Women’s Mission, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that
works with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
(RAWA).
JUSTIN PODUR is a Toronto-based writer and editor at ZNet (www.zmag.org).
He has reported from Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia, Israel/Palestine, and
other countries.
This event is organized by GRAIN (Grassroots Anti-Imperialist Network) @ U
of T – An action group of OPIRG – Toronto
Contact: grain-uoft@riseup.net / 416-978-7770 for more information
Or Visit: www.opirguoft.org
Endorsed by: GRAIN @ York, International Solidarity Working Group of CUPE
3903, and others to come…
war not good anyway
war not good anyway
like afghanistan did strange
like afghanistan did strange thing and they killed people and scourged for their goodness,
and us killing tht for the justice
but i think us hasmore
somthing, reason, for that.
if it is really trtuth than the bleeding afgahnistan is not that their fault, imen could be.,
war is not good, and have to be justice.