Come and find out the powerful stories of the Iraqi workers and trade unions who are fighting the military and economic occupation of their homeland . . .

Tuesday 2 October at 7 pm
WALLACE LECTURE THEATRE
Main Building
Cardiff University
Park Place (opp. Student Union Building)

Speaker - EWA JASIEWICZ
UK rep for the Basra Oil Workers Union &
founder member of NAFTANA, an organisation that builds
solidarity with Iraqi workers.
+ speaker from local anti-war network

About the speaker:

In 2004, Ewa Jasiewicz visited Iraq to build links between the anti-war movement and trade unions resisting both occupation and the corporate take-over of their counrty. She became the UK rep for the Basra Oil Workers Union, a militant trade union resisting both the sell-off of Iraqi oil to foreign corporations and the armies of
occupation

She lived in Baghdad and Basra, supporting human rights groups, womens organisations, families, workers, trade unionists and Palestinian refugees. She also lived for 6 months with communities of resistance in Jenin and Nablus in Occupied Palestine, volunteering with Paramedics at the Red Crescent Society, monitoring checkpoints, delivering food and medicine, accompanying council
workers, teachers and children during curfew, and organising demonstrations.

She has written for Red Pepper, Electronic Iraq, Z-Net, Counterpunch, Infoshop, Occupation Watch and The Socialist Review in the US.

About HANDS OFF IRAQI OIL

Hands Off Iraqi Oil is a UK coalition opposing any foreign
exploitation of Iraq's oil reserves that rips off the Iraqi people.
Members include Corporate Watch, Iraq Occupation Focus, Jubilee
Iraq, Naftana, PLATFORM, Voices UK, and War on Want.