IRAQI jOURNALIST & HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST

               MEMBER OF THE WOMEN SAY NO TO WAR DELEGATION

          ON US TOUR SPONSORED BY GLOBAL EXCHANGE & CODE PINK

 

      Eman Ahmad Khammas

Khammas is a journalist, translator and human rights activist who lives in Baghdad with her husband and two daughters.  She is a member of the Women's Will organization, which focuses on defining and defending women's rights outside of political party interests and opposing incarceration of women as hostages.  Khammas regularly publishes articles on the conditions in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion, and has documented human rights violations committed by US and Iraqi forces.  She is also involved in mobilizing emergency relief (medicines, food and clothing) for victims of the war, especially women and children living in refugee camps.

 

Friday March 17 - Olympia

 

12;30 - 2 pm          Evergreen State College

                              Seminar II Building - Room D1107

 

7:30 pm                 United Churches

                              110 11th Ave SE

 

Saturday March 18 - Seattle

 

1 pm                      STOP THE WAR rally

                              Federal Building - 2nd and Marion

 

7:30 pm                 Trinity United Methodist Church

                              6512 23rd Ave NW

                              Jim Page - activist/singer/songwriter opens

                                      Sliding Scale - suggested $3 min - no one turned away

 

                                                For more information:

     Olympia Events - Peter  360 867 6431  /  Seattle Events - Sasha 206 419 7957

 

                                                Seattle Sponsors

                                    The Collateral Repair Project

                                   Trinity United Methodist Church

                     INOC (Interfaith Netword of Concern for the People of Iraq

 

 

 

 

To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

1945 Nuremberg Charter