[JNV] Last minute reminder for 'Giving a Voice to Iraqi Children'

[Justice Not Vengeance]

[A] Thursday 15 November, London: Film Premiere of 'Giving a Voice
to Iraqi Children', with Renowned US Peace Activist Kathy Kelly
[B] Ordering details for 'Giving a Voice to Iraqi Children' DVD.

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[A] THURSDAY 15 NOVEMBER, LONDON: FILM PREMIERE OF 'GIVING A VOICE
TO IRAQI CHILDREN', WITH RENOWNED US PEACE ACTIVIST KATHY KELLY

7pm-9pm, Thursday 15 November 2007
Human Rights Action Centre
17-25 New Inn Yard London EC2A 3EA
(tube: Liverpool Street)

With:
* KATHY KELLY, renowned US peace activist
* LOUSISE MOOR, Amnesty International, co-author 'Millions in Flight: the
Iraqi Refugee Crisis'
* SONIA AZAD, Children Against War
* A speaker from the Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq
(www.csdiraq.com)

Also featuring the world premiere of Children Against War's new film
'Giving
a voice to Iraqi children', shot in Jordan this August (see
http://tinyurl.com/356u2b).

Kathy Kelly is the co-founder Voices in the Wilderness US, which sent score=
s
of sanctions-breaking delegations to Iraq during the 90s and early 2000s.
She has visited Iraq 26 times since 1991, lived in Baghdad during the 2003
invasion, and has recently spent four months in the Middle East living with
Iraqi refugees. She has helped organize - and participated in - nonviolent
direct action teams in Haiti ('94), Bosnia ('92 & '93)
and Iraq (Gulf
Peace Team, '91), and was among the first internationals to visit
Jenin, following
the massive 2002 Israeli assault on the West Bank refugee camp.

In 1988 she was sentenced to one year in prison for planting corn on nuclea=
r
missile silo sites, and served nine months of the sentence in a Lexington,
KY maximum security prison. In 2000 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace
Prize by the American Friends Service Committee.

Organised by Iraq Occupation Focus, Justice Not Vengeance and Voices UK.
www.iraqoccupationfocus.org.uk | www.j-n-v.org | www.voicesuk.org

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[B] GIVING A VOICE TO IRAQI CHILDREN
A 20 minute film by Sonia Azad (12)

In August 2007 Sonia Azad, a 12-year-old British Muslim girl, went to
Amman, Jordan, to interview Iraqi refugee children. Sonia, who founded
Children Against War when she was eight, has made a compelling, moving
20-minute film.

(Sonia was assisted in fundraising and editing by Milan Rai from JNV).

Behind the headlines and the statistics are resilient young Iraqis like
Abeer, 15, and Noor, 16, driven from their homes by violence, struggling
to make new lives, offering words of resistance and hope.

"I don't like the war. When the exploding happen, I really go
running to the windoe to see the exploding, and picture it in my mobile.
We were seeing that every day. We wasn't afraid." =96
Abeer, 15.

TO ORDER THE FILM please send a cheque (made payable to 'JNV')
to JNV, 29 Gensing Road, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0HE. Price: =A35 each +
P&P (=A31.50 for one copy and =A31 per copy for orders of more than one cop=
y).
Please include your name and address and how many copies you want.