A Reason For Change

Women Chowkies,

Forgive me for using this board for this event, but I didn`t know where else to post it. Hope to see some NYC Chowkies at this event:

Its March 8th; to all the women Chowkies out there

Happy International Working Woman`s Day

Saturday, March 16 7:00 - 10:00 pm

The Brecht Forum & the Women of Resistance in Brooklyn present Roses & Bread: 7th Annual Open Poetry & Performance Event

An International Women`s Day Tribute to Arab & Muslim Women and Benefit for RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Featuring: Nawal El Saadawi, Suheir Hammad and others TBA

We have just received word that Egyptian psychiatrist and writer Nawal Al Saadawi will be joining us at our 7th International Women`s Day

celebration. Saadawi is best known in the West for her novels, such as ``Women at Point Zero`` and ``God Dies By the Nile``. She writes against ancient customs oppressing Arab women, including her very personal account of the pain of female circumcision. In her words: ``We are living in a class patriarchal system, based on class and male

domination. This system breeds religious fundamentalism, paradoxes,injustices, and violence.``

Suheir Hammad is a Palestinian-American poet and activist, author of ``Born Palestinian, Born Black`` whose incendiary and lyrical verse ranges topics of police brutality, the

prison industrial complex, political prisoners, imperialism and the struggle for a free Palestine.

Join us for an evening of electric and intergenerational poetry,prose,politics and music as we celebrate International Women`s Day and

honor the inspirational and revolutionary work of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.

There is an article in Washington Post by a Pakistani. It reported the resignation of an Pakistani editor when he refused to fire journalists who did work on connections between the ISI and Pearl`s kidnappers.

feroz:

...you might find these two interesting read...

INDIA AND PAKISTAN
Back from the brink?

The NDA government`s perception of war as an option stems from the shifts in domestic distributions of power, a misperception regarding the place of Pakistan in U.S. strategic designs and the related delusion about India`s own importance in the U.S.-Israeli design for South-West and Central Asia.

AIJAZ AHMAD

http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1905/19051170.htm

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ANALYSIS

The truth about the Lahore Summit

A.G. NOORANI

http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1904/19040850.htm

temporal # 19

A great many number of people could benefit from reading Aijaz Ahmad and Noorani Sahib.
They can end up learning quite a few things in spite of the length of their articles.

This from me, an avid reader of Frontline every second week ..

Ras

Ref Urstruly #: 14

[Congrartulations to ROMAIR

Today the 121st and 122nd of the serving Generals of Paksitan Army were promoted from their previous ranks of Brigadiers.]

Brigadiers are already general officers in the British/Indian and I expect Pakistani armies. The US Army makes it explicit by having the title Brigadier-General.

[With this army of generals no wonder we have been able to moon Indians at the border for the past month and a half.]

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