Marking 8 Years and more of U.S. wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan: Part I
Eight years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, and years into the U.S.'s
military campaigns in Pakistan, we'll discuss the toll these wars have
taken, why they remain under the radar in American public consciousness
and the mainstream media, and what we can anticipate going forward.
With Junaid Ahmad, member of the faculty of law at Lahore University
of Management Sciences in Pakistan.
Guests
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A member of the faculty of law at Lahore University of Management
Sciences in Pakistan, JUNAID S. AHMAD has written for Left Turn
Magazine on Pakistan and Islam. He is a member of the Peoples Rights
Movement (www.prmpakistan.org), a progressive political confederation
of social movements committed to structural changes in the Pakistani
state, widespread social change, and a fundamental reconfiguration of
the global relations of power; the President of National Muslim Law
Students Association (www.nmlsa.org); and a longtime activist on
issues related to corporate-led globalization, HIV/AIDS, gender
justice, militarism and war, and Palestine.
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Marking 8 Years and more of U.S. wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan: Part 2
Eight years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, and years into the U.S.'s
military campaigns in Pakistan, we'll discuss the toll these wars have
taken, why they remain under the radar in American public consciousness
and the mainstream media, and what we can anticipate going forward.
With Sonali Kolhatkar co-author
of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda of
Silence.
Guests
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Sonali Kolhatkar, host of Uprising on Pacifica radio station KPFK. She is co-author of the book Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence and co-director of the Afghan Women’s Mission.
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Update on Iran Solidarity Work in New York
It’s been months since the controversial reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran. Months since countless Iranians took the streets to protest the elections. Here in New York City, solidarity efforts with the Iranian people continue. We'll talk to Bitta Mostofi of Where is My Vote? about the developments in NYC solidarity work with Iran. We’ll ask her to comment on the nature and politics of solidarity work in the context of Iran, and more broadly, as activists situated in the Global North.
Guests
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Bitta Mostofi is an immigrant rights attorney and a supervising attorney of the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project at NYU law school. In recent months Bitta has co-founded and worked with Where is my vote, New York to highlight human rights concerns in the aftermath of the disputed June 12, 2009 Iranian presidential election and raise the level of international solidarity with the citizens of Iran.
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