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Weekend Voices 4/3/10
No CommentsProducer: Carolyn Coe
Host: Amy Browne
Topic: Speakers from the Active Community Teach-In “Bring Our War $$ Home”, held in Bangor on 3/20/10, sponsored by the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine.
Keynote: Mariam Atifa Raqib, President of Samsortya, a nonprofit with the goal of reforesting part of eastern Afghanistan. Raqib worked from 1996-2007 with the Afghan Health and Social Assistance Organization in Peshwar, Pakistan. She was born in Afghanistan. In her keynote she provides a timeline of Afghanistan’s recent history, since the abolition of the Afghan monarchy. FMI: www.afghanistansamsortya.org
Gold Star Mother Mary Alice Horrigan speaks about the human costs (among other costs) of war.
Published on April 3, 2010 · Filed under: Voices & Weekend Voices; Tagged as: Active Community Teach-In, Afghanistan, Bring Our War $$ Home, costs of war, Gold Star Mother, Mariam Atifa Raqib, Mary Alice Horrigan, Pakistan, Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine, Samsortya
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