[Mitai-announce] Human Rights Day discussion, Fri, Dec 10, 7:30pm

[Aimee L Smith]

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MIT Social Justice Cooperative invites you to:


    Women's Rights vs Sovereignty Rights, a False Dichotomy?

           a panel discussion on Human Rights Day


When: Friday, Dec. 10, 7:30pm
Where: 4-231, MIT
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Panelists include: 

Lana Habash, Palestinian human rights and civil rights activist 

Marta Rodriguez, activist in the Puerto Rican Independence Movement

Moderated by Aimee Smith

Many active in struggles for human rights find themselves in a dilemma 
when people as notorious as G. W. Bush claim concern for women's rights 
in Afghanistan. Such claims are obviously part of the pretext for 
invading that country, but what is the right way to champion women's
rights in our own communities and societies everywhere without aiding 
those forces that devastate so many women's lives from without?  Other 
resistance movements are categorically dismissed by some in the left 
because of claimed concern for women's rights. Meanwhile, do we who are 
women living in "western" societies have a realization of our rights 
here at home when one in four women in the US will be raped in her 
lifetime and the most common cause of death for pregnant women is 
murder? Join us as we look for ways to build sincere solidarity
for women struggling everywhere.