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Join in the January 16,
2003 district-wide teach-in in Oakland, CA schools,
or start your own informational teach-in in your
town. This information was
developed especially for usage by Oakland teachers
who will have the opportunity to participate in a
district-wide teach-in on Iraq in January
(tentatively Jan. 16). However, the resources are
also available for other uses. Speakers
for schools: 1. Stephen Zunes,
professor at University of San Francisco is
available for assemblies but not classroom
presentations. He is very heavily booked.
415-422-6981 zunes@usfca.edu
Zunes serves as Middle East editor for the Foreign
Policy in Focus. He is an associate professor of
politics and chair of the Peace & Justice
Studies Program at the University of San Francisco
as well as the author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle
East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common
Courage Press, 2002). 2. Manu Ashoo,
local Iraqi-American, retired engineer. Very good
presenter and teacher. Can talk about history and
current events in large and small settings. He has
traveled to Iraq on several occasions in the last
decade to attend conferences and thus has maintain
first-hand contact with the situation there.
925-945-7351 manuashoo@hotmail.com 3. Gloria Escalona,
member of East Bay Coalition to Stop Sanctions on
traveled to Iraq with Voices in the Wilderness
about two years ago. 415-587-7036 Gloria@ix.netcom.com 4. Carolyn Scarr,
member of East Bay Coalition to Stop Sanctions on
Iraq, keeps abreast of Iraq issues via the
internet, writes material on subjects relating to
Iraq, organizes the weekly vigil against the
sanctions and the war. 510-527-8370
epicalc@earthlink.net 5. Allan Solomonow,
Middle East program coordinator at American Friends
Service Committee. He has worked on Middle East
issues for decades. Very good speaker. 415-565-0201
asolomonow@afsc.org 6. Leuren Moret,
specialist in depleted uranium. Full of detailed
knowledge and lots or resources. 510-845-3139
leurenmoret@yahoo.com For presentations in
schools on Islam, it is suggested getting in touch
with Islamic Network Group. They have presentations
prepared for elementary, middle and high school,
coordinated with the California curriculum.
www.ing.org
(Yes, it is "ing") 1. In Shifting Sands:
The Truth About UNSCOM and the Disarming of
Iraq (92 minutes) Why have over ten years of
inspections not conclusively determined the status
of Iraq's weapons and led to the lifting of the
worlds most stringent embargo? Includes interviews
with Rolf Ekeus, the first chief UN weapons
inspector, Tariq Aziz, Deputy Prime Minister of
Iraq, and other former weapons inspectors and Iraqi
officials. A first hand look. Five Rivers
Productions, written and directed by former UNSCOM
inspector Scott Ritter, 2002. buy mugen power 1950mah battery HTC Evo 3D 2. IRAQ: War Against
The People (29 Minutes) documents the effects
of the US military assault in the Gulf. Traveling
through Iraq in Summer of 1991, Larry Everest
interviewed Iraqi people about the war, the
bombings and their life afterwards. The video
brings us those voices, along with the signtsfrom
Iraqi hospitals, refugee camps and bombed cities.
Larry Everest, 1991 3. Hidden Wars of
Desert Storm (64 minutes) Addresses a ranges of
issues including the invasion of Kuwait -- why it
happened and who knew it was coming. The extent to
which diplomatic solution was tried or not. The
unreality of a threat to Saudi Arabia or other Gulf
states. The US failure to support local opposition
groups in 1991. Gulf War Syndrome and its causes.
Gerald Ungerman & Audrey Brohy,
2000. 4. Paying the Price:
Killing the Children of Iraq (75 minutes) Denis
Halliday, who resigned as director of the Oil for
Food Program, travels back to Iraq to show the
devastating impact of the sanctions on the lives of
ordinary Iraqi people because of the lack of
essential medicines, the lack of the parts
necessary to repair and maintain the water and
sewage treatment systems and the electrical grid.
Also shown is the suffering of the civilian
population under the U.S. bombings in the so-called
"no-fly zones". John Pilger, 2000 5. Greetings From
Missile Street (41 minutes) Kathy Kelly and
other members of Voices in the Wilderness living in
Basra share what it is like living under the bomb
in this city in the southern "No Fly Zone". Voices
in the Wilderness, 2000 (?) 6. Hussein Al-Athamy
& The Tchalghi Baghdadi Saturday, October 14,
2002 (105 minutes) This educational and
entertaining video features the oldest and most
challenging form of singing in Iraq. It includes
songs from a Cambridge concert, poetry and some
clips of interviews with the artists subtitled in
English as well as a brief information about the
youngest maqaam singer in the world, Jameel Saad.
The concert features master maqaam singer, Hussein
Al-Athamy, renowned Oud player, Ali Al-Imam,
talented young (female) Jawza player, Dalia Yakob
and percussionist Muhammad Abbas. INEAS, INstitute
of Near Eastern and African Studies. 7. Hans Von Sponeck
speaking in Palo Alto in the fall of 2001.
Addresses in detail the impact of over a decade of
sanctions. Von Sponeck was for a year and a half
the director of the Oil for Food Program of the
United Nations and resigned his thirty-year career
in the United Nations to work to end the sanctions
on Iraq. Distributed by Peninsula Peace and Justice
Center who hosted the talk.
1. Paying the Price:
Killing the Children of Iraq, produced by John
Pilger, 75 minutes, quality unknown (I will review
to determine). 2. Noam Chomsky: Crisis
in Iraq, by Justice Vision, January 1999, 2
hours, 10 minutes. Quality should be good since
it's a bonus video for contributing to KPFA. I will
review. Description: Understanding u.s. motives
behind sanctions and confrontation. By the
Mobilization for Survival and the Campaign for the
Iraqi People, at the Meeting House of the First
Parish Unitarian Church, Harvard Square, Boston,
Mass., on Jan. 30, 1999. [This video also
includes 2 other talks by Noam: - "Market
Democracy: Doctrines and Reality;" and - "Whose
World Order: Conflicting Visions."]
1. Why? by Wafaa
Bilal, 1999, 7 minutes, quality should be good but
I will check. 2. Tragedy in the Holy
Land: The Second Intifada, produced by Dennis
Mueler, 2001, 71 minutes, good commercial quality.
Go to "mpihomevideo.com" "Any unauthorized copying,
hiring or lending for public performance . . . is
illegal."
1. What I've Learned
About U.S. Foreign Policy, by Frank Dorrel,
copy quality, somewhat fuzzy 2. The New Rulers of
the World, by John Pilger, unknown running
time, copy quality (I will review).
1. One World, Ready or
Not by William Greider, 4 cassette tapes, 6
hours, good commercial quality. 1. A visit to Sadam's
Iraq, A report by Ingelis Gnutzmann, 24 min.,
Documentary of tour of Iraq in July 2002 made by
Hans Von Sponeck, former U.N. Coordinator of
Humanitarian Affairs . Visits to several sites
previously inspected by U.N. inspectors. He found
no evidence of weapons of mass destruction. He
toured Bagdad, southern Iraq, and the Kurdish
north. (Note: this has a few slight glitches as a
result of editing out commercials, but otherwise
the quality is excellent.) Made for German
television.
EB-COSSI
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Harry Scott (lives in Hayward-gets to Oak./ Berk.
often) hamescott@aol.com