She's going to interview me this weekend. And yes, I am recruiting her to join us here.
Here's the show for this week:
Listen to The F-Files this Wednesday, 3/15/2006 on 88.7FM, WNHU West Haven. Please pass on!
Internet Streaming at http://WWW.WNHU.NET/
Special Guest: Eman Ahmed Khamas
Eman, who will speak first-hand about the situation in Iraq, 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. Eman regularly publishes articles on women’s 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.
The Iraqi women’s delegation that Khamas is part of promoting a Women’s Call for Peace that’s been signed by 50,000 women around the globe. The call urges a shift in strategy in Iraq, from a military model to a conflict resolution model. It requests the withdrawal of all foreign troops and foreign fighters from Iraq, negotiations to reincorporate disenfranchised Iraqis, full representation of women in the peacemaking process, and a commitment to women's equality in the post-war Iraq. The full text is available at http://www.womensaynotowar.org. The Iraq war has cost the lives
of tens of thousands of Iraqis (estimates range from 28,535 to over 100,000) and some 2,300 US troops. As the three-year anniversary of the war approaches, the country is wracked by violence and threatened with the prospect of civil war, Iraqi civilians are suffering from a lack of basic services, including electricity and clean water, and women’s rights are being eroded.