Stop
the War Action Item
How to Put "Afghan Exit Strategy" (Formerly "Afghan Marshall Plan") on Your Community Access TV Station
You can watch it online here: http://ralphlopezworld.com/pbs.mp4
We are happy to report that dozens of public access TV stations across the country are now airing our film "Afghan Marshall Plan: Winning With Jobs not Guns." Please keep this number growing, as it only
takes an email to your local public access TV station manager, which you can look up here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
CUT AND PASTE BELOW INTO AN EMAIL TO THE STATION MANAGER(S) OF YOUR
NEARBY PUBLIC ACCESS STATIONS. THEY CAN DO THE REST. ONCE YOU HAVE
RUN DATES AND AIR TIMES, PLEASE CONTACT US SO WE CAN FOLLOW-UP ON
PUBLICITY.
Alternatively, we can mail you a DVD to give to your local station. Contact:
Sue Serpa
10 Cascade Rd.
Worcester, MA 01602
617-599-5195
CUT-AND-PASTE BELOW IN AN EMAIL TO STATION MANAGERS
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Hi,
I would like to request that you broadcast an interesting and timely community-produced documentary, "Afghan Exit Strategy: Winning With Jobs Not Guns" which was filmed in Kabul this summer (26 minutes.) It is easily downloadable at Pegmedia.org , the site for public access TV managers to find quality, community-produced content (free, in mpeg2 format ready to burn to DVD.) Please contact me with the run-time and date if you can run this as a community service.
Thank you!
(YOUR NAME)
Community Television Fan
FILM CONTENT DESCRIPTION: "Afghan Exit Strategy: Winning With Jobs Not
Guns" (filmed in Kabul)
"In the midst of the superheated debate over the course of the war in
Afghanistan, independent film-makers Ralph Lopez and Najim Dost, the
latter an Afghan citizen, release this provocative look at the
underside of an insurgency. In a country with 40% unemployment, they
talk to those whose voices have been missing: ordinary Afghans. See
and hear them up close in the squares where they gather by the
thousands looking for work, and struggle to feed their families.
Ranked as the fourth poorest nation in the world, many have never even
heard of 9/11, nor the Twin Towers. But someone is always hiring at
a good daily wage: the Taliban. The documentary reveals that an
civilian solution to stability would cost but a small fraction of the present
occupation. Troops in Afghanistan are counterproductive. Help for
Afghans is not. (26 minutes)"
LINK TO PEGMEDIA DOWNLOAD PAGE FOR STATION MANAGERS (MPEG2 file)
"Afghan Exit Strategy: Winning With Jobs Not Guns":
http://www.pegmedia.org/index.
LINK TO DOCUMENTARY FOR ONLINE VIEWING BEFORE DOWNLOADING (compressed MP4)
http://ralphlopezworld.com/pbs.mp4
MORE BACKGROUND LINKS:
LINK TO BOSTON GLOBE/BALTIMORE SUN OP-ED "We Can Win With Jobs Not
Guns in Afghanistan"
http://www.baltimoresun.com/
LINK TO "An Exit Strategy for Afghanistan" by Ralph Lopez
http://jobsforafghans.org/
LINK TO FILM WEBSITE:
http://jobsforafghans.org
LINK TO PRINTABLE PUBLICITY POSTER (FOR COMMUNITY LIBRARY BULLETIN BOARDS ETC.)
http://jobsforafghans.org/
