Nottingham Stop the War Coalition is hosting a screening of the film Rethink Afghanistan on Monday, 25 October 2010 at 7:00pm in Nottingham Trent University's Chaucer Lecture Theatre 2, Goldsmith Street (just by the Nottingham Trent University tram stop).

The film will be introduced by staunch Stop the War supporter and Ex Labour MP for Nottingham South, Alan Simpson.

With a PowerPoint presentation featuring the effects of conflict on returning soldiers by ex-Paratrooper turned photographer and lecturer, Stuart Griffiths.

Please note: To fit all this in before the building closes at 9pm, we need to start promptly at 7pm. Please arrive early!

The Photographs
Stuart Griffiths records the estranging after-effects of war faced by many returning soldiers: not only the horrific wounds, but the intense psychological damage.

Obviously the suffering of Afghani civilians is worse both in quantity and intensity, but NATO ISAF forces ensure that it is not recorded.

Stuart's work gives us a glimpse of what is really happening to those in Afghanistan.

The Film
Rethink Afghanistan is a full length documentary film (75 minutes) by Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Foundation. Nottingham Stop the War has screened it before, and was so impressed that we decided to screen it again - to a bigger audience.

It has sections on

• Military escalation,
• The destabilisation of (nuclear!) Pakistan,
• The mounting cost of the war,
• Civilian casualties,
• The effect on Afghan women,
• And some former CIA men (no less) on how there can be no victory.

Entry is free, but you may be asked to throw money into our collection bucket.

John Shemeld
(Nottingham Coordinator, Stop the War Coalition)