Public Meeting
With Ewa Jasiewicz, Hands off Iraqi Oil
UK rep for Basra Oil Workers' Union
Representative of NAFTANA - an organisation that build solidarity with the Iraqi workers movement

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)

This will be an important meeting to join the international campaign against the Hydrocarbon law that aims to give control of Iraq's oil for the next 30 years to foreign multinationals.

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.