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Reports from Iraq Campaign news

Campaign News

For up to date details on Voices campaigns, see our newsletters or the homepage.

By theme: The following is a list of our main campaigns since the build up to the invasion and the start of the occupation. Click on the link for materials and information and read our list of campaigning demands.

By date:

Campaigners urge John Simpson to pull out of Iraq 'Corporate Feeding Frenzy'
21 April 2004 Protest outside Iraq Procurement Conference 26-29 April 2004

BBC’s John Simpson refuses to speak at Iraq business conference 22 April 2004

Emergency demo against US/UK repression and killing in Iraq, Downing St Sun 11 April 2004

Iraq: stories of invasion and occupation - A theatrical protest and tour of Whitehall to mark one year since the US/UK invasion of Iraq March 2004

Stop Bechtel and Halliburton making a killing....out of the killing in Iraq February 2004

Eyewitness Iraq: Arab-American Activist to speak across UK after two years in Baghdad November 2003

Protests against the corporate invasion of Iraq outside 'Reconstructing Iraq' conference 27 October 2003

Protests against the corporate invasion of Iraq outside 'Doing business in Iraq' conference 13 October 2003

Six months on - a memorial for the 20,000+ killed in Iraq since the invasion 19 September 2003

Voices in the Wilderness Receives $20,000 Summons from US Government August 2003

Memorial to those who died and suffered under 13 years of economic sanctions ( 6 August 2003)

20 to stand trial for anti-war protest: defendants to use case to put invasion of Iraq on trial. (12 June 2003)

See here for a summary report on protest during the war.

Take Action - Save Lives - round-up of the humanitarian crisis in Iraq and demands to make of decision-makers (updated 07/05/03).

New Early Day Motions on Cancellation of Iraq's Debt and Building Democracy in Iraq (April 2003) - get your MP to sign.

Jubilee Iraq - A new campaign has been set up calling for the Iraqi people to be freed from Saddam Hussein's debts and reparations, which are estimated to total almost $400bn. This works out at roughly $15,000 per Iraqi - many times their yearly income. Find out more about the campaign and to sign an online petition.


Anti war activists due in court Thursday April 10th (09 April 2003)

Weekend of action - 15 anti war actions at UK bases, 10 at bases in Germany, Italy, Greece, Japan and the USA. (06 April 2003)

Iraqis in the firing line - images from an invasion Whitehall 6-8pm (03 April 2003)

Hundreds of die-ins and non-violent acts of civil disobedience
take place across the UK in protest against war (20/03/03)



Other News sources
For updates from a variety of NGOs and aid agencies on the humanitarian situation in Iraq view ReliefWeb and UN Humanitarian Information Centre for Iraq. Also see: Electronic Iraq; Occuptation Watch; Amnesty International - Crisis in Iraq section; Iraq Indymedia; Future of Iraq web portal; Robert Fisk. For an independent assessment of the numbers of civilian casualties, click here.


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