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Women's Contingent on Anti-War March

Iraqi Women’s League-UK | 30.09.2003 12:50 | London

Leaflet for the Anti-war march + photos. The Women's Contingent led by the Iraqi Women's League says: NO OCCUPATION! The Iraqi Women’s League-UK appeals to all women and women’s organizations to join our Women’s Contingent at the Anti-Occupation march on Saturday 27th Sept, 2003 to demand the end of the US/UK occupation of Iraq. How dare the US presume that they can oversee the writing of our constitution!

Women's Contingent, Anti-war march, London, 27 Sept
Women's Contingent, Anti-war march, London, 27 Sept

Women's Contingent, Anti-war march, London, 27 Sept
Women's Contingent, Anti-war march, London, 27 Sept


We demand that:
The UN plays a leading role in the post-Saddam period, ensuring the urgent reconstruction of Iraq.
The Iraqi people are enabled to organise our own security and stability. Essential rebuilding must be paid for by those who have bombed our water supply, hospitals, and other infrastructure.
The Iraqi people must not be prevented from establishing our own federal democratic regime in which we can practise our complete freedom and independence.
The outrageous sell-off of Iraqi resources must stop immediately, and all barriers to the sovereignty and integrity of Iraq must be removed.
Saddam and all his gang must be put on trial.

Many of us have family members living in Iraq, who tell us of the unbearable suffering of all Iraqis - hundreds are being killed each week and many more are dying from malnutrition, dirty water and the effects of depleted uranium. But everyone knows from long experience that women are always more vulnerable to occupying armies. Women have given up going out to work because the streets are not safe. Women are harassed at military checkpoints, just as Palestinian women are, against the traditional treatment of women. The message coming from Iraqi women is: We have no security, no water, no gas, no electricity, no medicine, little or no food at prices we can afford. (The occupying armies have plenty of food, electricity, etc.)

Unemployment is 70%. Women the carers must work hardest trying to ensure everyone’s survival despite the lack of basic necessities.

We call on women to march with us to make women’s survival work, deprivation, vulnerability, struggle and demands visible. Only when women’s situation is visible, is the real cost of war and occupation truly known and understood.

We demand a new beginning for the Iraqi people in general and Iraqi women in particular – women as mothers, sisters, daughters, wives, who suffered the consequences for themselves and their families of three brutal wars and many years of dictatorship. A Women’s Contingent of the national march will put added pressure on the occupying forces to leave, for the destruction and killing to stop, and for the rebuilding of Iraqi society to begin.

We extend our heartfelt support to women in other countries, including in Palestine and Afghanistan, who are also suffering the consequences of war and occupation.

The media have recently uncovered the reality of the Saddam Hussein regime by showing mass graves in which bodies even of children and the elderly were buried. They do not mention that if the countries now occupying Iraq hadn’t armed and supported that regime as it carried out these atrocities against us, we could have got rid of him much earlier.

Women in Britain: We look forward to your solidarity, and rely on your support. Supportive men welcome.

Iraqi Women’s League-UK
- e-mail: lppc@ukonline.co.uk

Comments

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Don't upload such huge pictures please!!!

30.09.2003 15:29

Your pictures would be appreciated but at a whopping great 1.7 meg *each* are effectively inaccessible to everyone using a modem connection. What that means is that the average modem user on Indymedia has to wait about 10 minutes before your pictures are complete and even if they are that patient (highly unlikely) they'll only be able to see a tiny porthole view of each picture on their screen at a time unless they're rich enough to have a screen the size of a room (also unlikely).

So please please in future learn how to use your camera and the software that came with it and use it to resize your pictures before uploading them. Hint: in just about every graphics editing program it's under Image/Resize on the top menu bar. Many activists can only afford hand-me-down monitors with a resolution of 640 x 480 so I'd strongly suggest you never upload pictures larger than that. Always check your file size before uploading and *never* upload pictures straight from a hi-res camera. You might also want to learn about using the crop tool for your graphics editor which will further reduce up/download times as your second picture has acres of uninteresting sky and tarmac that add nothing to the picture.

All other uploaders also please take note of this simple but common sense request.

Mrs Doyle


You wouldn't be marching if you knew how Iraq had tortured women!

30.09.2003 15:43

Among the victims of Iraqs brutal regime have been many women who have been horrifically tortured and murdered by Saddam's regime. Methods of torture and murder in Iraq by Saddams regime were extremely horrific. In one incident victims were dropped into a machine for shredding plastic some went in head first and died quickly others went in feet first and died screaming. Their bodies came out of the machine looking like mincemeat. In othewr tortures victims were fored to stand in acid baths until their feet were burned off. Still anti-war?

Rockwell


More Wisdom McNuggets from Rockwell

30.09.2003 20:46

That's right, the Iraqi Women's League, many of whom fled for their lives from Saddam when Britain and the US were arming him, couldn't possibly know as much about life under Saddam as Rockwell does. He's kept close tabs on Iraq, you see, by reading the Sunday colour supplements.

blackberry


Photo image editing

01.10.2003 13:11


Also one added thing one can do when one uses an image editor on a photo is to add text at the corner of the photo with details of subject matter ot a url for more info, as photos often get saved, moved and disconnected from html page they were with.

A free image editor can be found at:

 http://gimp.org

but one has to install 2 parts under MS Windows.

sb
- Homepage: http://j12.org/sb/


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