Monday, March 28, 2005

SAVE THE LIFE OF SALAH SHOAIB CHOUDHURY PLEASE READ AND SIGN THE PETITION

PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK AND SIGN THE PETITION.

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/IFLAC102/petition.html

To: United States, the United Nations, the European Union, Canada

We the undersigned, petition the United States, the United Nations, the European Union, Canada and all free governments, to help to release Mr. Salah Choudhury from his undeserved imprisonment in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His only crime, was that he wanted to go to Israel to attend a Writers' Conference in Tel Aviv.

The charge against him at first, when he was arrested on November 29, 2003, was a passport violation. Nonetheless, he has now been charged with Sedition, WHICH IS A VERY SERIOUS CHARGE THAT CAN LEAD TO A DEATH SENTENCE.

Salah Choudhury is not a spy, he is just a democratic journalist who wanted to create bridges of understanding between Bangladesh and Israel.

Two additional important factors are at play.

1. Whereas Israel recognizes Bangladesh as a State, Bangladesh does not recognize Israel as a State to this day.

2. Whereas, in Israel a person can freely travel to Bangladesh, a person from Bangladesh is restricted in movement.

We the undersigned are for FREEDOM of MOVEMENT and of SPEECH. WE DEMAND THAT MR. CHOUDHURY BE RELEASED FROM JAIL IN BANGLADESH AT ONCE AND BE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO HIS FAMILY, and have the charges against him totally disbanded.
Sincerely,

Poem by Ada Aharoni: Mount Carmel Pomegranates

Mount Carmel Pomegranates

The trees smile, the trees laugh, the trees sign,
and every pomegranate on Haifa's Mount Carmel,
peals its love song:
take her tenderly by the hand
wherever you go,
she is part of you
we are witness.
The trees whisper,
the trees weep,
the trees sleep,
when he goes
and leaves her smile behind,
awakes at morning
in a snow land
kissing his own
cold hand...

www.iflac.com/ada from the collection of women poems

POEMS BY DR. Ada Aharoni:

Kindly visit www.iflac.com/ada for more poems Women collection poems



I grapple with the edge
of the taste
of seaweed and bombs
You have kept your
underground river away from me,
preferred filling your pockets
with pebble-bombs and seaweed silence.
You knew of your thirst
and my river longings - yet
not enough empathy for surging waves
not enough to break away
from absurd deterrence reasoning
and send it flying,
there's no cold war
anymore.
My fears
refuse to stay in port,
they fling pebble-bombs
and brown seaweed
like drowned hearts
full in my face.

BOOKS BY ADA AHARONI

Reproduced with the permission of Dr. Aharoni to order these books you go to
www.iflac.com/ada


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Saturday, March 05, 2005


Gather the Women group picture  Posted by Hello

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Gather the Women San Francisco Posted by Hello

Ada and the group in S.F. Posted by Hello

San Francisco Gather the Women  Posted by Hello

Ada and Ibtisam Gather the Women  Posted by Hello

IFLAC Call for papers

IFLAC -
INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR THE LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF PEACE

INVITATION

V IFLAC PEACE CULTURE CONFERENCE
Los Angeles, US, 3-6 August 2005
With the participation of International Writers and Poets’ Associations



CHAIR:
Prof. Ada Aharoni: IFLAC World President
57 Horev Street, Haifa 34343, Israel
Tel. +972-4-8243230 - Fax +972-4-8261288
Email: ada@iflac.com



CALL FOR PAPERS
The V Iflac Pave Peace International Conference

IFLAC PAVE PEACE, The International Forum for the Culture and Literature of Peace, organizes this interdisciplinary conference. IFLAC is a network of peace researchers, writers, poets, educators, journalists and media, working together to foster joint cooperation and understanding in the Middle East and in our global village. The conference will bring together experts and participants from a broad range of fields, to discuss the impact of the cultural and literary dimensions for promoting the paving of global Culture of Peace, which would pave and promote a world beyond war.

The major themes to be examined and discussed at this conference will include the following. Please choose one of them or suggest your own subject.

1. From A War Culture To A Peace Culture,
2. Conflict Resolution Through Culture and Literature,
3. Pluralistic Cultural Identity in an Era of Globalization,
4. Women and Peace,
5. The Communications Revolution and its effects on Culture,
6. Creation of a Peace Culture in the Media,
7. Peace Education through Literature,
8. Economic Globalization and Its Effects on Culture,
9. The Dangers of the glorification of the Culture of Terror and of Suicide Bombing
and the Possibilities of A Peace Culture As A Means to Combat it.
10. Can NGO’s like IFLAC, and “Gather the Women,” Influence World Governments
and Institutions to Promote Peace in the World?

See following websites for more information on Iflac: Pave Peace: www.iflac.com www.iflac.com/ada
www.iflac.com/iflacheb.htm
and online Anthology: HORIZON Numbers 1 to 5- www.iflac.com/horizon

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* The WCP Congress (The World Congress of Poets), will take place at the same Hotel from August 6 - 10, and IFLAC Conference Participants are welcome to attend it. For more information please contact the WCP Congress President: Dr. Lucy Cabieles: Drcabieles@aol.com