Dear supporters of Afghan women, the latest SAWAN newsletter is available for download from http://sawa-australia.org/sawan.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan comes to Australia

MEDIA RELEASE: 6 May 2009 From 28 May to 19 June Shazia Shakib, a member of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), will visit Australia for a speaking tour aimed at raising funds for RAWA's social projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Shazia will visit Adelaide, Hobart, Melbourne, Castlemaine, Newcastle, Sydney, Brisbane and Lismore. Her tour is organized by the Support Association for the Women of Afghanistan (SAWA-Australia).

The tour is supported by the Australian Education Union and Zonta District 23 Area 2.

Additional material and high resolution photos, which can be used freely in press, radio and television, can be obtained via email (mtomczak@internode.on.net) or downloaded from http://www.users.on.net/~mtomczak/RAWAtour2009

Antony Loewenstein and The Blogging Revolution by Giovanni Torre 2009-04-03

Antony Loewenstein's latest book - The Blogging Revolution - documents his travels through Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, China and Cuba and his meetings with independent journalists and writers. He recently spoke to Indymedia.

http://perth.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=143243

Four years ago Antony Loewenstein began work on My Israel Question, a scathing critique of the occupation of Palestine. For a nice Jewish boy from Melbourne, it was a bold move. “Most of the vitriol around my work on Israel/Palestine comes from Jews, sadly, who simply refuse to accept their homeland is a rogue state that commits horrible wars crimes in the occupied territories.