From: "Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [atw-news] Human Rights Awareness Concert Benefitting RAWA with Eve Ensler & Malalai Joya - Tuesday, April 10th - 6:00 -11:00 PM - UCLA'S Grand Ackerman Ballroom Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 11:53:27 -0800
Original Message From: Heather Schreck: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mighty Mic 2007 Human Rights Awareness Concert Benefitting RAWA & Doctors Without Borders Tuesday, April 10th UCLA' S Grand Ackerman Ballroom 6:00 -11:00 PM Suggested donation $10 Malalai Joya: Afghanistan's youngest parliamentarian, Malalai Joya returns to California this April for a very limited number of events. The BBC has called Ms. Joya "the most famous woman in Afghanistan." She has been threatened with death and rape for publicly denouncing Afghanistan warlords and has survived four assassination attempts. Recently a documentary called Enemies of Happiness profiling Malalai Joya won the World Cinema Jury Prize in Documentaries at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Eve Ensler: Eve is a playwright, performer, activist, and award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues. She has just completed a 20 North American cities tour from October 2005-April 2006 with her newest play The Good Body, following engagements on Broadway in NYC, at ACT in San Francisco. Her acclaimed play, The Vagina Monologues has been translated into over 45 languages and is running in theaters all over the world, including sold-out runs at both Off-Broadway's Westside Theater and on London's West End (2002 Olivier Award nomination, Best Entertainment.) Her experience performing The Vagina Monologues inspired her to create V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) - www.rawa.org Political organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy, and women's rights in Afghanistan. Doctors Without Borders - www.doctorswithoutborders.org News, documentation, and service information from Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) the world's largest private humanitarian relief organization. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
