Re: AUT: Information on Iraq was antiwar movement

[Peter van Heusden <pvh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nothing's perfect, but my list for info on Iraq at present contains:


Occupation Watch: http://www.occupationwatch.org/
(does anyone know more about their people inside / outside Iraq?)

Baghdad Burning (a blog by an Iraqi woman blogger):
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

WCP Iraq (for all that you can complain about their politics, they post
interesting news):
http://www.wpiraq.org/english/

Two other blogs:

The famous Salam Pax:
http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/

A blogger from Basra:
http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/

I vaguely keep track of the Baghdad Indymedia project, which seems up to
shit as far as I'm concerned. I do think that this is an important idea
though - just dubious about the current participants (sounds rather like
the Indymedia Africa conference that happened recently - parachute
equipment and training in, as if Indymedia is about making little
journalists.... much better to try and make contacts with existing
activists and give 'em some digi cams and voice recorders, in my
opinion).

I'd be very interested to hear about what I've missed.

Peter
P.S. Workers Liberty also took the side of the KLA during the Kosova war.
They seem to be associated with the 'Workers Aid to XXX' groups, who also
include people from the old WIL (i.e. Healyite Trots). Some of these
people are fairly decent, although I wish they would just get over the
vestiges of their leftism and move on - then the aid caravans they
organise to Bosnia, etc. would lose some of the ideological baggage that
seems to do nothing but hold them back, in my opinion.
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Peter van Heusden                     pvh@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel: +27 (0)83 256 0457



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