Yanar Mohammed Keynote address -Women from Iraq & Iran: Visionaries for Peace in the 21st Century --- Yanar Mohammed, head of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), at the forefront of raising Iraqi women’s awareness of their rights, fighting for an egalitarian secular state and full equality for women, as well as advocating for the separation of religion from the state and educational system. -- Mohammed notes if the US spent 1/4 of a trillion dollars in Iraq to create an Iraqi foothold for "Political Islamist-fundamentalists" -we're doing fine. -- ©Edmund Russell2005 (Recorded and engineered by Ed Russell for active ingredients media. Please give attribution if broadcasting -it helps when networking. For personal nonprofit/noncommercial use only). -- Recorded at Westfield State College, Westfield Ma conference Women from Iraq & Iran: Visionaries for Peace in the 21st Century April 14-17, 2005