International Peace Conference – London, 12/10/05
Section on the Current Situation and Moving the Conference Statement
See the photo album.
Andrew Murray of the Stop the War Coaltion and Kate Hudson, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), moderated this opening session. Murray introduced Tony Benn (pictured at right), former Labour MP and cabinet minister, who gave the opening address. Lindsey German, the convener of Stop the War, then moved the conference statement which called for a worldwide demonstration on March 18th. Next, Hudson commenced the speakers’ portion of the session.
You may download MP3 audio (64 kbps mono) of the following speakers:Andrew Murray, Stop the
War Coalition; Tony Benn, former Labour MP and cabinet minister; Lindsey German, convener of the Stop the War Coalition, moving the conference statement.
MP3 audio; 25 minutes; 11.5 MB
Kate Hudson, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND); Prof. Elaheh Koolaee (Teheran University,
former Iranian MP); and Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies.
MP3 Audio; 14:34 minutes; 6.7 MB
Sami Ramadani, Iraqi writer and academic
MP3 Audio; 11:07 minutes; 5.1 MB
Mazin Younis of the Iraqi League
MP3 Audio; 8:48 minutes; 4.1 MB
Ayatollah Khalisi of the Iraqi National Foundation Congress spoke in Arabic. He later spoketo Socialist Worker (UK).
The audio program is © 2005 Charles Jenks. The audio may be played
on the radio with email notice to the producer at charles@traprockpeace.org and attribution. Otherwise, the audio may be downloaded for personal use only. The Stop the War Coalition, convener of the conference, may post the audio on its website with attribution. All other rights reserved. Audio recorded and edited by Charles Jenks.
See also the Military Families Panel with Cindy Sheehan; the Building the International Movement panel with George Galloway; and coverage of the student participation with the Campus Antiwar Network and the National Union of Students.
For reports on the conference, see the Stop the War Coalition website.
And see Eric Ruder’s report from London: Sami Ramadani on the latest “milestone” election in Iraq; reports from Socialist Worker (UK); David Swanson; and Kevin Zeese.