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Activist with the radical underground organization RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.
*She is speaking tonight, Oct. 7th at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Click for more information
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Voices from Afghanistan: Afghan Women’s Activist Zoya Speaks Out on Eight Years of Occupation
Zoya is a member of the radical underground organization RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. She fled Afghanistan following the Soviet invasion but later returned to her country to document life under Taliban rule. She has been an outspoken critic of the US and NATO invasion of Afghanistan. [includes...October 07, 2009 | Story
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Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
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