Women, Education and Peace in Afghanistan with Safida Begum

Women, Education and Peace in Afghanistan

with Safida Begum

Monday, May 2, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

All Stars Project, 543 West 43^rd Street (between 10^th and 11^th Avenues)

Free to the public

The United States has been at war in Afghanistan for ten years.  Yet how many of us know anything about the day-to-day life of ordinary people in this far away country?

The next offering from the Global Outreach Department of UX provides a chance to learn directly from Safida Begum, a pioneer of women’s education in her own country, who traveled to Afghanistan to help train teachers in a country where there are very few schools for girls or, if schools do exist, where they lack such necessities as water, washrooms, blackboards and furniture.  “Women, Education and Peace in Afghanistan” will be an interactive workshop in which Begum will lead the group in an exploration of why women and education are one of the keys to development and peace in Afghanistan.

The evening will be hosted by Lois Holzman, chair, UX Global Outreach and director, East Side Institute.

To RSVP, email Mary Fridley at mfridley@eastsideinstitute.org.

TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS 10/8/09

INDEPENDENT VOTERS

Should the US get out of Afghanistan?

• Parsippany independents hold key to mayoral race (By Eugene Paik/For The Star-Ledger)
• Voters More Favorable to Afghan War Troop Hike (CQ Politics)
• Terror-Free Afghanistan Is Worth American Blood, U.S. Voters Tell Quinnipiac University National Poll; But Only 38 Percent Want To Send More Troops (Quinnipiac) Independent voters came down in the middle, but a plurality of 40 percent favored a troop increase, while 28 percent said there should be fewer US troops

OPEN PRIMARIES

• Term limits tweak maybe heading back to ballot (By Anthony York, Capitol Weekly) The term-limits change is just one of the government reform measures that may be headed to the ballot next year. Gov. Schwarzenegger has endorsed the concept of an open primary. Signatures are already being collected on a part-time legislature initiative. And labor groups are contemplating pushing changes to the legislative vote requirements to eliminate the current two-thirds requirements to pass new taxes and state budgets.

BLOOMBERG 09

Independence Party and Working Families Party together will determine the election of top NYC posts, and some status-quo-ites are unhappy about that!

• New York’s Two-Party System--Public-sector unions on one side, billionaires on the other (Harry Siegel and Fred Siegel, City Journal) The Democrats will also have competition of sorts from the Independence Party...
• NYC Mayor: What's In A Party ID? (National Journal/Hotline)
• Betrayal! Boro’s two top Dems are supporting non-Democrats (The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig)