Ed Kinane
Voices in The Wilderness
Baghdad
Oct. 13, 2003

No muezzin this morning at 4:30. Neville was set up to record that typical and remarkable chant calling the faithful to prayer. He’s begun using the muezzin’s morning call to prayer as his own.

At 4:50 a chopper hovers overhead before moving on down toward The Palestine. This is the first chopper I’ve seen with navigation lights on. With Abu Mohammed driving, we go by the Hotel Baghdad, recently bombed. Armed men on the roof, armed men strung along Al Sadoon St every few feet. The windows of shops across the boulevard blasted out.

Cynthia Banas
Voices in The Wilderness
Baghdad
October 21, 2003

I read with interest Journalists Battle over Media Coverage of Iraq War (The Gulf Today, 9/11/2003).

As a member of a US American Peace Team, I lived in Baghdad from October 28, 2002-April 26, 2003. I was there during the build-up phase of the war; the bombardment, the invasion, the looting; the “liberation” turned occupation.

Iraq and Sanctions: Myth & Reality

An attempt to dispell key myths put forward by proponents of sanctions policy

(originally published in Iraq Under Siege, South End Press, 2002).

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Compiled by Heidi Holliday and Tess Kleinhaus

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December - Voices in the Wilderness Founded - A small group of friends who were active in protesting the Gulf War in 1991 meet in Chicago and start Voices in the Wilderness (VITW), with intention to use nonviolent civil disobedience to provoke a confrontation with the powers behind the illegal and immoral sanctions against Iraq.

By ALAINA SUE POTRIKUS
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - Thousands of protesters marched peacefully through downtown Washington on Saturday, calling for an end to the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq and accusing President Bush of lying to win support for the invasion.

The crowd appeared to be much smaller than the 30,000 people the organizers had predicted would attend the first major anti-war demonstration held in the nation’s capital since Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq on May 1.

Still, enthusiasm was high. The protesters gathered near the foot of the Washington Monument in bright fall sunshine to listen to a series of speakers before marching on a route heavy with police that took them past the White House and the Justice Department.

The rally drew people from across the country and from all walks of life.

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