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RAWA Supporters Southern California presents a screening of “Taliban Country”

March 6, 2005

Video Screening, Slide Show and Music
Proceeds to Benefit RAWA

Taliban Country is a documentary where journalist Carmela Baranowska spent three weeks embedded with U.S. Marines in Afghanistan. She then returned in secret to the area where she was with the Marines to document what was really happening that the Marines would not let her see. Its a story of prisoners abused and villagers humiliated. "This report prompted US inquiry."

For additional information:
Aljazeera Story (opens in new browser window)

Taliban Country Web Site (opens in new browser window)

With Special Guests:

Carmela Baranowska: filmmaker

Sonali Kolhatkar: Co-Director of Afghan Women’s Mission and host of KPFK’s Uprising. Sonali will speak on the terrible conditions still facing Afghan women, and the lack of progress on education, employment, and poverty reduction in Afghanistan, as well as the on-going problem of US-backed warlord domination. From a recent trip to Afghanistan with her colleague, Jim Ingalls, Sonali found that main-stream media coverage of Afghanistan has painted an extremely misleading portrait of Afghan women’s “liberation” and the advent of democracy. During her trip she visited the capital city, Kabul, and Herat and Farah Provinces to interview Afghan journalists, lawyers, refugees and activists, as well as observe the visionary aid projects of RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. This is her first report since her trip. There will also be a slide-show.

Gene Owens: music

Location, Time and More:

Saturday, March 12th 1-4pm @ Immanuel Presbyterian Church’s Chichester Chapel, 3300 Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles (click for map), California, U.S.A.

$10 donation requested – All proceeds go to RAWA’s (Revolutionary Association for the Women of Afghanistan) Emergency Relief Fund.

For more information please call (323) 687-1193 or email: rawasupporterssouthcal@hotmail.com

This event is endorsed by Code Pink & Frank Dorrell – Addicted to War.

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