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The Algebra of Infinite Injustice: A Fundraiser for RAWA

November 9, 2001

A Fund Raiser for RAWA’s Malalai Hospital

In addition to the various free lectures, the Afghan Women’s Mission, in conjunction with Mia Kirshner and Track 16 Art Gallery, present “The Algebra of Infinite Injustice”, an evening of art, music, and words in support of RAWA.

Honoring Tahmeena Faryal of RAWA, Pakistan

Wednesday, November 14 2001 at 7 pm
Track 16 Gallery*, 2525 Michigan Avenue, C1, Santa Monica
(exit 10 fwy at Cloverfield. Go north. Turn right on Michigan)

Until a few years ago, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) administered the Malalai Hospital in Quetta, Pakistan. The hospital, one of the finest in the region, treated up to four hundred people a day, including landmine victims. Due to lack of funds, the hospital has been forced to shut down. The current war has only worsened conditions in Afghanistan, paving the way for a humanitarian disaster.

RAWA needs $300,000 to reopen Malalai Hospital.

RAWA was formed in Kabul in 1977 as a way to promote women’s rights through nonviolent action. Since then, this organization has evolved – it now runs schools, orphanages, mobile health-care units, self-help classes, and adult literacy classes, and it also provides emergency relief in refugee camps. The Afghan Women’s Mission was formed as the North American fundraiser for RAWA.
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$100 Suggested Donation

$500 for 6PM cocktail party with Tahmeena Faryal

$2,500 Super Friends

No Host Bar

Absolutely No Photography

Make checks payable to the IHC/Afghan Women’s Mission, mail to 2460 N. Lake Avenue, PMB 207, Altadena, CA 91001. This event will sell out, get your reservation in soon.

ORGANIZED BY

Mia Kirshner, Pilar Perez, Sonali Kolhatkar, Steve Penners, Cindy Ojeda and Natasha Gregson Wagner

EVENT COMMITTEE

Bonnie Abaunza, Lida Abdullah, Roya Adjory, Kooshy Afshar, Ann Archer Artists for Amnesty, B+, Mariana Botey, Exene Cervenka, Susan Clark, Robbie Conal, Peter Coyote, Alfonso Cuaron, John Cusack, Dana Delany, John Densmore, D.V. DiVincentis, Robert Downey, Jr., Cheryl Dunn, Dave Eggers, Eve Ensler, Deliah Ephron, Nora Ephron, Jodie Evans, Susan Feiniger, Helen Fielding, Anne Fishbein, Bill Fishman, Stephen Frears, Eve and Bill Gerber, Dana Gluckstein, Marsea Goldberg, Ryan Gosring, Melanie Griffith, Guerrila Girls, Tom Hayden, Leslie Hope, Stephen Hopkins, Nick Hornby, Khaled Hosseini, Roya Hosseini, Arianna Huffington, Steve Irvin, Cynthia Janos, Glenn Kaino, Earl Katz, Diane Keaton, Sally Kellerman, Gita Khashabi, Lisa Love, Ustad Mahwash, Rebecca Marder, Ali McGraw, Dylan McDermott, Mary Sue Milliken, Sedika Mojadidi, Viggo Mortensen, Amitis Motevalli, Meena Nanji, Manuel and Sherry Ocampo, Will Oldham, Tom Patchett, Marisa Pearl, Rosie Perez, Sarah Polley, Katha Pollitt, Bonnie Raitt, Mary Anne Reyes, Shiva Rose, Arita Shahrzad, Laurie Steelink, Nancy Stevens, Eric Stoltz, Tara Subkoff, James Taylor, Ed Templeton, Benicio del Toro, Robert and Jill Wagner, Dan Waters, Chloe Webb, Mike Welch, Carol Wells, Barbara Williams, Alfre Woodard

*On view at the Gallery (beginning Nov. 10):

HERE IS NEW YORK
Images from the Frontline of History: A Democracy of Photographs

A VIEW FROM A GRAIN OF SAND
Images of RAWA’s Projects and the Lives of Afghan Refugees by Steve Penners, AWM President

OVERFLOWING
Lida Abdullah, Gita Khashabi, and Amitis Motevalli