Justice for Iraq conference
Saturday 19 July 2008

10.30am-11am: Registration

11am-1pm: Why we need justice for Iraq

• Sami Ramadani, Iraqi Democrats Against the Occupation
• Hans von Sponeck, former UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Iraq
• Haifa Zangana, Iraqi writer and columnist
• Liz Davies, Iraq Occupation Focus

1pm-1.45pm: Lunch

1.45pm-3.15pm: Workshops

Workshop 1: Stopping the corporate carve-up

• Greg Muttitt, Platform
• Kamil Mahdi, University of Exeter

Workshop 2:The humanitarian crisis

• Milan Rai, Justice Not Vengeance/Peace News
• Marion Birch, Medact
• Sarah Parker, Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq

Workshop 3: War crimes: ending impunity

• Jehangir Jilani, Public Interest Lawyers
• John Hilary, War on Want
• Mazin Younis, Iraqi League

3.15pm-3.30pm: Break

3.30pm-5pm: The way forward: Iraq solidarity for the long-term

• John McDonnell MP
• John Hilary, War on Want
• Kamil Mahdi, University of Exeter
• Carole Turner, Stop the War Coalition

5pm: Ends

11.00-17.00, Saturday 19 July 2008
United Reformed Church
Buck Street, Camden (close to Camden Town tube)
London NW1 8NJ

Entry by donation (suggested amount: £7/£5 unwaged)

For more information download the event leaflet or visit the Justice for Iraq blog at: www.justiceforiraq.net.

Justice for Iraq Facebook group >>
Event page on Facebook >>

Organised by Iraq Occupation Focus
Contact: iraqfocus@riseup.net

Justice for Iraq conference: London, 19th July

Justice for Iraq

A day conference
Saturday 19 July, London

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Justice for Iraq is a call to action – a campaign that demands a complete policy reversal of those countries who have invaded and occupied Iraq since 2003. Ending the military occupation remains the most urgent priority. But Iraq will remain a broken nation without urgent measures aimed at delivering lasting peace and justice for its people and healing some of the wounds caused by this disastrous war.

Justice for Iraq will pressure Iraq's occupiers to:

• withdraw their troops and privatised security forces;
• restore Iraq's full economic, legal and political sovereignty;
• dismantle the Green Zone and the other occupation walls;
• clean up toxic and unexploded weapons of war;
• release and compensate detainees;
• assist refugees and displaced persons;
• help Iraq to relieve dire shortages in food, water, energy and medical supplies;
• agree to pay reparations for waging a war of aggression;
• ensure that war criminals face justice.

These demands do not represent a complete or final list. This campaign is in the process of emerging and we are reaching out to build a network of organisations and individuals who share a similar goal. Join us on 19th July to be a part of debating, building and launching this campaign.

Speakers confirmed so far:

• Hans von Sponeck, Former UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq
• Haifa Zangana, Iraqi writer and activist
• Sami Ramadani, Iraqi Democrats Against the Occupation
• Kamil Mahdi, Senior lecturer in Middle East economics at University of Exeter
• Mazin Younis, Iraqi League
• John McDonnell MP
• Greg Muttitt, PLATFORM
• John Hilary, War on Want
• Jehangir Jilani, Public Interest Lawyers
• Liz Davies, Iraq Occupation Focus
• Marion Birch, Medact
• Milan Rai, Justice Not Vengeance / Peace News
• Sarah Parker, Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq

11.00-17.00, Saturday 19 July 2008
United Reformed Church
Buck Street, Camden (close to Camden Town tube)
London NW1 8NJ

Entry by donation (suggested amount: £7/£5 unwaged)

For more information download the event leaflet or visit the Justice for Iraq blog at: http://www.justiceforiraq.net/.

Organised by Iraq Occupation Focus
Contact: mailto:iraqfocus@riseup,net

Attack on Basra

What is behind the today's attack on Basra by the Iraq government? Assuming that the OK has been given by the US government and with the British longing for resistance in the south to be finally crushed (by someone other that British troops) this is likely to be linked directly to the moves to privatise the oil fields of Iraq. Sami Ramadani provides some early analysis of what is going on in his piece on the Guardian website. BTW most of the comments seem to be analysis-free. What does seem to be the pattern now is for the occuppiers to use one bunch of thugs against another before those thugs are in turn attacked by another. The US/UK spin machines have yet to explain how this method will build either peace or democracy.

Judging for Justice

Find out more about Tony Blair getting his collar felt...it may happen for real one day!

More Pictures of Hands Off Iraq Oil Protest

Thanks to Heather for sending in some more pictures from the London Hands Off Iraq Oil event. There are more pictures on the Hands Off Iraq Oil website.

Hans von Sponeck speech on Iraq Peace Plan, December 2007

Pirates plundering Iraqi Oil

Hands Off Iraqi Oil ran a number of actions up and down Britain on Saturday 23rd Feb. The London action saw 100 pirate protesters marching through London round various of the lairs used by the pirate companies currently involved in the plundering of Iraqi Oil through production sharing agreements.


First off was a visit to Erinys International: a nasty bunch of mercenaries. Currently pitching to provide "security" to the oil companies i.e. using violence to steal the oil that belongs to the Iraqi people.


Next to the BP offices in St James's Square where the high command of this company plan their next move after polluting their way across the north American continent: the theft of Iraq's oil.


The National Portrait Gallery takes money from BP. This is a trade of cultural respectability in exchange for cash. Not exactly a first in the history of Art. The pirates preferred the artistic impulse behind the banner.




The International Tax and Investment Centre lurks behind an utterly anomymous doorway in Duncannon Street just opposite St Martins church. This bunch of nobodies co-ordinates government action to help corner the Iraqi oil industry to deliver it into the maws of the corporate pirates.








Finally on what must have been a starboard reach across the Thames to the Shell Building. Shell has been taking the lead to make sure that British oil corporations get their piece of loot from the oilfields of Iraq.