: "Narrated as a letter to Tony Blair and using original diary extracts, from her challenging of the legality of the devastating economic sanctions imposed on the country, through to her activities in Baghdad before and during the 2003 Invasion, the film traces the lineage of non-violent resistance to US/UK policy in the region. Wilding serves as witness to the destruction of the lives of ordinary people during the bombing campaign and their subsequent neglect by Occupation forces and the interim authorities but she also acts, forming the Boomchucka Circus to work with school children and refugees. And in April 2004, that help extended to travelling into Fallujah, when even Al Jazeera had pulled out, to stand alongside the civilians trapped and targeted by US forces. "
The papers are telling us that Blair and Howard are hiding from the people and/or the journalists.
He won't be watching this film of witness in Iraq, then either.
What an incredibly brave young woman.
We can only just stand up against a tin pot dictator in the village at home.
I have written two poems to connect life here with life in Falluja.
Only if we are driven out of our village by Blairite authoritarianism will I be able to write a third.
What they did to Fallujah was too horrible for me to imagine poetically.
It has been said "No poetry after Auschwitz"
But here is someone going to witness the destruction of a place that dared to resist invasion and occupation.
The showing will be too late for the election, but go anyway.
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