January 31, 2010
2pm – 4pm
Boulder Integral Members – $10
Regular Entrance – $15

Event will be held at
Boulder Integral Center, 2805 Broadway Street, Boulder, CO 80304 (we are in the north/west corner of Broadway and Balsam)
Limited parking only. Car-pooling and the SKIP bus highly recommended.

Best selling author Sara Davidson, and international peace activist, Rabia Elizabeth Roberts, will talk about their recent trip to Afghanistan. They arrived in Kabul believing the U.S. should withdraw its troops, but after 8 days their presumptions were turned upside down.

The people they talked with made it clear that peace, for them, requires more than withdrawing troops or sending more. Rabia will address how the progressive community can help Afghans, especially women, attain the peace they want, and Sara will relate the human stories from their trip.

Seating will be limited so , so please rsvp to website-feedback@saradavidson.com

Sara Davidson is the bestselling author of Leap! What Will We Do with the Rest of our Lives? and Loose Change, the definitive book about growing up in the ’60s.  As a journalist, novelist, TV writer and radio host, she’s earned a reputation for writing cutting edge pieces about the way we live. Read more at www.saradavidson.com

Elizabeth Rabia Roberts, Ed.D. is an educator and social activist who has worked for more than 40 years on issues related to peace, justice and environmental health. She is co-founder of the Boulder Institute for Nature and the Human spirit and directs its new Path of the Friend program. She has taught at Harvard University’s School of Education and was a founding faculty of the Naropa University’s MA in Environmental Leadership. in 1999 she and her husband, Elias Amidon, sold their Boulder home and began an open-ended international pilgrimage of service and teaching. After 9/11 this work took them increasingly to Muslim countries. Over the past years she has worked in Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Syria, Jordan and most recently Afghanistan. She plans to return to Afghanistan to work with women there in April 2010. She is co-editor of the anthologies Earth Prayers and Life Prayers.