Urvashi Vaid
/Overview
Urvashi Vaid born New Delhi, India October 8, 1958. Attorney; human rights advocate; gay rights leader; ACLU lawyer; anti-Apartheid leader; co-founder of New Yorkers Say No to War, 2003; arrested at White House protest on abortion, 1992; opposed wars in Vietnam, Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan.
Quotations
"9/11 resulted in a massive militarization of American society, the dramatic re-orientation of fiscal priorities at the national level, cutbacks in domestic civil liberties and freedom, the launching of two wars (Afghanistan and Iraq) so far, and the implementation of the new doctrine of 'pre-emptive' attack as one of our chief foreign policy strategies." (NE University, March 24, 2005; photo cuny clags)
