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Shows featuring Malalai Joya

  • Obama Administration Relents and Grants Visa to Leading Afghan Antiwar Campaigner Malalai Joya for U.S. Trip

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    Former Afghan member of parliament, Malalai Joya, joins us for her first broadcast interview since arriving in the United States on Friday after officials initially denied her application for a travel visa. Her visa was approved Thursday following a protest campaign that included letters from the American Civil Liberties Union...
    March 28, 2011 | Story

  • "Stop These Massacres": Ex-Afghan Parliamentarian Malalai Joya Calls for End to U.S. Occupation of Afghanistan

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    U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan fear increasing opposition after photographs of U.S. troops posing over dead Afghan civilians were published last week by German news magazine Der Spiegel and broadcast by Democracy Now! Rolling Stone magazine has just published 18 additional images. The photographs are graphic and have been...
    March 28, 2011 | Story

  • "A Woman Among Warlords": Afghan Democracy Activist Malalai Joya Defies Threats to Challenge US Occupation, Local Warlords

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    To talk more about Afghanistan, we are joined by Malalai Joya, one of Afghanistan’s leading democracy activists. In 2005, she became the youngest person ever elected to the Afghan parliament. She was suspended in 2007 for her denunciation of warlords and their cronies in government. She has just written her memoir, A Woman...
    October 28, 2009 | Story

  • Indonesian Elections
    Amy reports that the elections are far from democratic and are in fact violating the human rights of much of the population. Medea Benjamin, the Founding Director of Global Exchange joins Amy from an East Java town to discuss the status of the elections and the impact that they are having on the population.
    May 29, 1997 | Story

  • Death of Allen Ginsberg
    Poet and political activist Allen Ginsberg died this weekend. He was 70- years-old. Ginsberg was perhaps best known for his work with the Beat poets and writers in the 1950s and 1960s, including Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and William Borroughs.
    April 07, 1997 | Story