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Global Activism in an American School with author Lisa Kantor Swerdlow
November 12, 2016 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Free
Saturday, November 12 — 7:30 pm
When twelve-year-old Iqbal Masih, former child laborer in a Pakistani carpet factory came to Boston in 1994 to receive Reebok’s Youth in Action Award, he asked to meet youth his own age. Iqbal’s inspirational visit to Broad Meadows Middle School and untimely murder five months later, on his return to Pakistan, inspired the middle school students to start a grassroots activist campaign to build a school in his memory.
