Public Meeting – perspectives for the peace movement
2 Speakers:

Ewa Jasiewicz. – Eyewitness, occupation-watch, Iraq.
Kate Hudson. – National Chair of CND.

Monday 23rd February. 7.30pm
Friends Meeting House, Church St, Colchester, Essex.
(Behind Cinema, between Arts Centre and Mercury Theatre).
All Welcome. Organised by Colchester Peace Campaign.
 http://www.ColchesterPeace.org.uk

Ewa Jasiewicz has just returned from nine months in Basra and Baghdad as an independent human rights observer monitoring the occupation in Iraq. Before this she worked in Jenin refugee camp in Palestine. At this meeting she will give one of her first eye witness reports since her recent arrival back in the UK. Ewa, who worked in Iraq with the Occupation-Watch Centre; and ‘Voices in the Wilderness’ campaign has written many important reports on the newly emerging trade union movement in Iraq. Ewa was also one of two international observers thrown out a US press conference and then barred from the Convention Centre in Baghdad after raising questions about checkpoint killings by the occupying forces. Some of her reports can be found online at:  http://www.electroniciraq.net and  http://www.indymedia.org.uk
More information on her work can be found at:  http://www.voicesuk.org

Kate Hudson is chair of CND, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. She will speak on the future of the peace movement, including the campaign against the military colonization of space. Kate was also one of the initiators of the proposal to stage the next European Social Forum in London this year.  http://www.cnduk.org/

This meeting will also discuss:
a) Mobilizing for the global day of protest to mark the first anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, on 20th March, and the national Stop the War demo in London.
b) Delegates for the Stop the War Coalition third annual conference.
 http://www.stopwar.org.uk
c) Ideas for future campaigning.