Afghanistan: ASRC Petition and WISA Fundraiser
Action is urgently needed.
Petition for more refugees.
Donations for immediate food, blankets and tents
PEN Melbourne has links with WISA which is in partnership with Afghan Women’s Organisation Victoria, AWOV, and supports their fundraiser. They have a long history of supporting women in Afghanistan.
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Wonderful celebrations of 100 years of PEN @englishpen
Our festival #EnglishPEN100 opens tomorrow at @southbankcentre with a new work by @aiww commissioned for our 100th anniversary.
Join us for a weekend of events with writers, thinkers, activists who are defending our rights to write and read.
Tickets: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/festivals-series/english-pen-100 https://twitter.com/TheArtNewspaper/status/1440988614792552449
People say that (writers) are pretty powerless: we don’t have an army, we don’t have a bureaucracy. But if that were true, then why would writers be arrested?... Because the spoken word is powerful.
