1/29 Radio Intifada 3pm: Iraqs provincial elections

1/29 Radio Intifada 3pm: Iraqs provincial elections - a test of democracy?

RADIO INTIFADA
intifada=shaking off - oppression/silence

Thursday, January 29, 2009 3-4pm PDT

KPFK 90.7fm Los Angeles, 98.7 Santa Barbara
and streaming live at www.kpfk.org

Iraq's provincial elections - a test of democracy?

Elections will be held on Saturday Jan 31st at 7,000 polling stations with 296,000 local observers from political parties and NGOs
and 400 international monitors

Radio Intifada will discuss election with a focus on:

* Power Struggles
* Ethnic Divisions
* Suni Arab, Shiaa Arab and Kurdish Influence in Iraq Politics.

with Nyma Ardalan and Hamoud Salhi, SWANA Collection

phones will be opened up during a portion of the show

SWANA activist and cultural calendar:

Friday, 1/30 to Sunday, 2/1 - Pacifica National Board Meeting @ Feminist Majority Bldg, 433 S. Beverly Dr, BH

For schedule and agenda, see KPFK front page - www.kpfk.org

Sat 1/31/09, 11am to 7pm - Whither Levant: The Crisis of the Nation State, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine

Panels, films, lunch - UC Irvine Student Center. For more information and/or tickets, go to
http://www.levantinecenter.org/arts/authors/whither-levant-crisis-nation-state-lebanon-israel-and-palestine

Sunday, 2/8 - SAVE THE DATE - Fourth Al-Awda West Coast Regional Conference

Hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine @ UCSD and Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
@ University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla

Tuesday, 2/3, 7-9pm - Slingshot Hip Hop - film showing and discussion with film-maker, Jackie Salloum
UCLA, Boelter Hall 3400. For more information: www.international.ucla.edu.cnes

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