[Oct. 17 Seattle] Real Change Ad, etc.

Thu Sep 24 23:06:27 EDT 2009

I'm -- that is, Peace Action of Washington is, and I'm the sole staff person - sponsoring the Joya events. We're hoping to get her to Tacoma, and an evening reception and talk in Seattle, in the day she's here, then an event in Bellingham on her way up to Vancouver the next day. She's doing this around release of a new book and as a fundraiser for Afghan Women's Mission. Don't have the venue lined up yet but we should have an announcement on that - and hence all the other pertinent details - by early next week. That's most of what I'm going to be working on for the next seven weeks.

I would certainly never speak for her but I think it's no secret that in word and deed Joya is pretty implacably opposed to the Taliban, AND to US imperialism and its puppet narco-state, AND to Islamic patriarchy. For some binary thinkers that will be very hard to wrap their heads around. Good.

Geov
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  1) I agree about the slogan, will see if Geov has finished with the article.

  2) It's good that you're going to leaflet the Jamail event, and I think that you will have the help of some others.  (I found it interesting that he's rumored to show up at Westlake on Saturday since he's so down on the prospects of organizing in the imperialist countries.)

  3)  Who's sponsering Joya?  I think that her coming is somewhat of a big deal.  Moreover,  it won't be liked by more or less secret supporters of the Taliban like WWP and PSL.  Moreover, Ed Mead, who along with Mark Cook was at one of our preliminary meetings, has recently sent Helen a long letter arguing in the most r-r-revolutionary communist  language that we should come out in support of the Taliban.  (It would be fun to see Joya deal w/ him.)--Fk.

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  It occurred to me that the slogan

  US Out of Afghanistan Now!

  could be improved by changing it to

  US, Get Out of Afghanistan!

  for two reasons.  First, I think that the change better accentuates the concept that although we are live in the US, we are implacably opposed to the US government.  Second, I don't like "now" as a way of accentuating militancy since WHEN (and if) the US gets out depends totally on the balance of forces, i.e., how desperate the US is to prevail there vs. how strong the movement here is (not very, frankly) and how strong the armed struggle is in Afghanistan.

  This idea just popped into my head, so if it would be too disruptive to change the main slogan, that's cool.

  Other subjects:

  1) I'll definitely be going in to hear Dahr Jamail on Sunday ($15/ticket, fundraiser for Coffee Strong) at Univ. Temple United Methodist Church (1415 NE 43rd, Seattle) and I intend to leaflet it a bunch.

  2) For what it's worth, Malalai Joya, the Afghani "MP" will be in Seattle on Nov 11.

  On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Helen <helen1913 at mac.com> wrote:

    I spoke to the editor of Real Change and he said I should send an ad

    to the calendar editor that says who, what, why, where, and when.

    They may (there is discretion) print it the week or ten days before

    the event in their calendar, for free.  They usually print an event

    ad only once, but you can purchase a classified ad (another place in

    the paper?) for about $30-40.

    For the calendar listing, I propose the following:

    US Out of Afghanistan Now!  Demonstrate Saturday, October 17, at 1p.m..

    March begins at Seattle Central Community College and ends at Westlake.

    Sponsored by October 17 Antiwar Mobilization and endorsed by numerous

    anti-war groups and individuals.

    ___________

    This is short because I don't believe the calendar allows that much

    detail.  Feel free to make suggestions.

    --Hn

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