Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Publication of all London Peace Conference Sessions

Charles Jenks, Traprock Peace Center | 23.12.2005 08:25 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | London | World

Traprock Peace Center has just published to the internet its comprehensive coverage (audio, photos and video) of the London International Peace Conference, held on December 10, 2005. 1400 conference delegates called for worldwide antiwar demonstrations on March 18 and 19, 2006 to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation of Iraq.

 http://www.traprockpeace.org/london_peace_10dec05.html

Traprock Peace Center has just published to the internet its comprehensive coverage (audio, photos and video) of the London International Peace Conference, held on December 10, 2005.

1400 conference delegates called for worldwide antiwar demonstrations on March 18 and 19, 2006 to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation of Iraq. The conference also called for the release of the Christian Peace Makers team members who were kidnapped in Iraq. The conference was organized by the Stop the War Coalition (UK). The full conference statement is available at  http://www.stopthewar.co.uk

We have been posting the conference in segments. The latest program focused on Holding Bush and Blair to Account.  http://www.traprockpeace.org/london_bush_blair_account/

Audio is now available of:

Tariq Ali, writer and campaigner
Ann Wright, former US diplomat
Paul Ingram, Green Party (UK)
David Swanson, co-founder of AfterDowning Street.org
John Rees, co-founder of the Stop the War Coalition, with a video
Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan
Walter Wolfgang, activist who had escaped from Nazi Germany
Amani Deghayes, who spoke of her brother's tragic detention, torture and maiming at Guantanamo

We had published the following just recently:

The opening session, with audio of these speakers:

Andrew Murray, Stop the War Coalition,  http://www.stopthewar.co.uk
Tony Benn, former Labour MP and cabinet minister, giving the opening address
Lindsey German, convener of the Stop the War Coalition, moving the conference statement
Kate Hudson, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Prof. Elaheh Koolaee (Teheran University, former Iranian MP)
Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies.
Sami Ramadani, Iraqi writer and academic.
Mazin Younis of the Iraqi League.

Students met to discuss organizing in the UK and the US, and international cooperation among students. A video is available of Suzie Wylie, Peter Leary and Pav Akhtar of the National Union of Students and the Stop the War Coalition, and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, national coordinating committee member of the Campus Antiwar Network in the US.

The Military Families Campaigns section was a centerpiece of the conference. Andrew Murray introduced Andrew Burgin of Military Families Against the War and Judy Linehan from Military Families Speak Out as moderators. Audio is available of these excellent talks:

Rose Gentle (Military Families Against the War)
Ann Lawrence (Military Families Against the War)
John Miller (Military Families Against the War)
Ben Griffin (Military Families Against the War)
Kelly Dougherty (Iraq Veterans Against the War)
Chris Nineham (Stop the War Coalition)
Medea Benjamin (Code Pink)
Peter Brierley (Military Families Against the War)
Judy Cuniglio (Dallas, Texas)
Reg Keys (Military Families Against the War)
Cindy Sheehan (Gold Star Families for Peace)

Building an International Movement came next. This panel, which concluded the conference, was moderated by Andrew Murray and Jane Shallice. Audio is available of this program in its entirety, with a special audio of the keynote speaker. These people spoke:

Ishmael Patel, Friends of Al Aqsa
Herbert Docena, Focus on Global South
Judith LeBlanc, United for Peace and Justice
Sabah Jawad, Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation
Dr. Azzam Tamini, Muslim Association of Britain;
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour MP of Islington North;
and Andrew Murray, introducing the keynote speaker,
George Galloway, Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow.

Several Iraqis spoke in Arabic. We tried recording the translations of their talks to no avail. Ayatollah Khalisi of the Iraqi National Foundation Congress, Hassan Juma, President of the Southern Iraqi Oil Workers' Union, and Hanna Abrahim of the Iraq organization Free Will spoke. We link to reports that summarize their comments. The British government refused to allow entry to a delegate from Iraq, the al Sadr representative, Hassan al Zargani. We do not have audio of a few other speakers for technical reasons.

There are photo albums of each of the above sessions along with albums of the groups tabling at the conference and photos of people meeting and reconnecting at this historic conference. There are special photos of Cindy Sheehan, George Galloway, Jeremy Corbyn, the students, and many others,
at  http://www.traprockpeace.org/london_peace_10dec05.html

Charles Jenks, Traprock Peace Center
- e-mail: charles@traprockpeace.org
- Homepage: http://www.traprockpeace.org

Comments

Display the following comment

  1. PIMBY -Peace in my back yard — Hugh Man
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech