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GUEST: Faiza Al Araji, a civil engineer, and blogger from Iraq, now based in Jordan.

This week anti-war groups around the country are marking the anniversary of the beginning of the US war on Iraq. On Uprising, we spend some time this morning on Iraqi women and war. The Iraq based “Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq” reports that violence against women has increased dramatically since the 2003 US invasion . Women have been kidnapped, killed, raped, and even sold to foreign countries for the prostitution. More than 2,000 Iraqi women have been kidnapped since April 2003. A delegation of Iraqi women is currently touring the United States this Women’s History month. One of them, Faiza Al Araji joins me in studio. Faiza is a religious Shia married to a Sunni. She is a mother of three – one of her sons was recently held as a political prisoner by the Ministry of the Interior. Al Araji’s family has now relocated to Jordan.

Visit Faiza’s blog at afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com.

Join CODEPINK, Cindy Sheehan, Jodie Evans & Medea Benjamin for a fundraising reception with Faiza Al-Araji*,a member of the Iraqi Women’s Delegation currently traveling the U.S.

4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 15
1177 Angelo Drive
Beverly Hills(Sunset to Benedict Cyn, left on Angelo)
Donation: $100
RSVP to dana@codepinkalert.org

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Faiza will also be speaking on Wednesday, March 15 at 7 PM, at the downtown UCLA Labor Center, 675 S. Park View St. Los Angeles, CA 90057. There will be a $3 admissions, but no one will be turn away for lack of funds.

Faiza will be joined by Fernando Suarez del Solar and Pablo Paredes, Medea Benjamin, and others. Uprising host, Sonali Kolhatkar will MC the event. For more information, click here.