"Iraqi Women Organizing for Freedom, Equality and Separation of Mosque and State"
YANAR MOHAMMED
Reports Back


WHEN: Sunday, June 27th at 7pm

WHERE: Bluestockings Radical Books, NYC (directions below)

COST: $7 to $10 suggested donation to benefit battered womenıs shelters in Baghdad and Kirkuk

Internationally renowned fighter for womenıs rights and leading Iraqi activist against the occupation, Yanar Mohammed returns to New York City to report on the illegitimacy of the so-called "authority hand-over" on June 30 and the latest developments of the womenıs movement in Iraq.

Ms. Mohammed is founder of Organization of Womenıs Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) editor of the womenıs newspaper al Mousawat (Equality) and member of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq. To learn more about OWFI, visit www.equalityiniraq.com She will be giving a slide presentation and speaking on:

Plans for a mass protest against the new illegitimate "interim goverment" and the campaign for an egalitarian and secular government

Empowering women not to accept inferior status for any reason... OWFIıs large-scale womenıs march in Baghdad for Int. Womenıs Day

Organizing women at work against systemic offenses

Opening two women's shelters: to protect women from "honor" killings and post-war violence

Denouncing the torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib...

Recounting the defeat of Resolution 137 (Islamic Shar'ia) and the experience of living under repeated death threats by Islamists due to her outspoken stance on women's rights for more info, contact: Solidarity with Organization of Womenıs Freedom in Iraq (SOWFI) at sowfiorg@hotmail.com

Directions to Bluestockings

Bluestockings is located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington (1 block south of Houston and 1st ave).

Phone
212-777-6028

website: www.bluestockings.com

By train: They are 1 block south of the F train's 1st ave. exit of its 2nd ave stop. And just 3 blocks west and 2 blocks north of the J/M/Z trains' Essex/ Delancey stop.

By car: take the Houston exit off of the FDR. Turn left on Essex (Ave A), right on Rivington, right on Allen, and park!