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Iraq
by cle-imc newswire
Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2005 at 8:52 PM
It's been 15 years since the United States invaded Iraq for the first time. Since then our government has been responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent lives, through two wars intermixed with a decade of bombings and economic sanctions that crippled Iraq's water and power supplies. In March of 2003 the United States invaded Iraq for the second time, claiming the invasion was necessary to "ensure compliance with UN Security Resolutions." Well, the WMDs were never found, and links between Sadaam and Al Qaida have been dismissed as fiction by the congressional 911 commission.
Our government is bent on destroying the spirit of what was once the nation most resilient to US imperialism, and it is vital to the success of the world that we oppose folding control of Iraq into the dominant global hegemony. On the second anniversary of the second time the United States has invaded Iraq, people around the world are taking to the streets to demand an end to the occupation, an end to the torture, and an end to the violence.
Many cities and communities in Ohio have planned actions and events. Cleveland Indymedia Center has been in contact with organizers in hopes to provide coverage of all planned events.
Below are flash videos:
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Liberation
Occupation
News From Inside Iraq
Weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war himself.
Weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war himself.
Dahr Jamail's Lectures
February 27, 2005 - New College, San Francisco
MP3 Audio: Dahr speaks at New College about the current situation in Iraq 2/27/2005
Recorded
by Greg Miller. Edited by Rich Teich. 1:16:47, 8.78 megs
Area Events, Protests, Rallys:
Cleveland Indymedia Calendar
A Night of
Ferocious Joy M18
Columbus M19
Cleveland Day of Resistance M19
Canton M19
Akron M19
Oberlin M19
Youngstown M19
Cambridge M19
Dayton M19
Cincinnati M19
NorthEast Ohio Anti War Coalition M20
Radical Drum Brigade M20
Kent M20
Sandusky M20
Cleveland Indymedia Center Will Continue to Report
Turmoil
by Opach
Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2005 at 10:56 PM
To end the occupation is to send the Iraqi body as a whole into turmoil.
The US tore down a dissfunctional system and is still hard at work setting up a functional one. They've come a long way, but they still have a ways to go.
To pull out would be the worst decision they could possibly make.
iraq was not disfunctional
by ian
Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2005 at 12:09 AM
I'm concerned when I hear people describe pre-war Iraq as disfunctional. Where did you get that idea? For instance, do you think there were more deaths due to police brutality in 2000 in Iraq or in America?
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