Remember Fallujah Week
November 16
Title: Remember Fallujah
This event will consist of a panel of experts and eye-witnesses speaking on the human costs of the US led occupation of Iraq on the city of Fallujah.
Speakers
Dahr Jamail (Award winning independant journalist)
Irene Gendzier (Professor of Political Science at Boston University)
Dr. Dahlia Wasfi (Iraqi-American physitian and author)
Ross Caputi (Iraq veteran and participant in the 2nd Assault of Fallujah)
Dr. Muhamad Tareq Al-Darraji (Fallujah native and researcher)
Dr. Entesar Ariabi (former Head Pharmacist of the Yarmouk Hospital in Baghdad and researcher)
Location
The Morse Auditorium at Boston University, 602 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA
Time
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Title: Remember Fallujah Discussion
This event will be a free screening of the documentary film The Road to Fallujah, a pot-luck dinner, and a community discussion. www.facebook.com/event.php
Location
1010 Paul Russel Road Tallahassee, FL
Time
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
November 17
Title: Remember Fallujah
This event will consist of a panel of experts and eye-witnesses speaking on the human costs of the US led occupation of Iraq on the city of Fallujah.
Speakers
Dahr Jamail (Award winning independant journalist)
Dr. Dahlia Wasfi (Iraqi-American physitian and author)
Ross Caputi (Iraq veteran and participant in the 2nd Assault of Fallujah)
Dr. Muhamad Tareq Al-Darraji (Fallujah native and researcher)
Dr. Entesar Ariabi (former Head Pharmacist of Yarmouk Hospital in Baghdad and researcher)
Location
Brown University, Barus & Holley building in room 168, 182 Hope St. Providence, RI
Time
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Title: A letter to The Prime Minister
This event will consist of a free screening of the documentary film A letter to The Prime Minister directed by Julia Guest. It includes exclusive footage from the besieged city of Falluja, and creates a moving picture of the terrible impact UK & US foreign policy has had on ordinary Iraqi people, while the film itself stands as a powerful act of remembrance and questions an unjust and damaging Occupation. (http://www.alettertotheprimeminister.co.uk/)
Location
Boston University Stone Science Building room STO B50, 675 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA
Time
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
November 18
Title: Iraq: The suffering Continues
This event will consist of experts and eye-witnesses to the human costs of the US occupation of Iraq on the people of Fallujah. Special attention will be paid to the effects on public health in Iraq and to the extreme rates of cancer and birthdefects in Fallujah since the sieges in 2004.
Speakers
Ross Caputi (Iraq veteran and participant in the 2nd Assault of Fallujah)
Dr. Dahlia Wasfi (Iraqi-America physician and author)
Dr. Muhamad Tareq Al-Darraji (Fallujah native and researcher)
Dr. Entesar Ariabi (former Head Pharmacist of Yarmouk Hospital in Baghdad and researcher)
Location
John Hopkins University
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Sheldon Hall (W1214)
615 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21205
Time
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
November 19
The Road to Fallujah
This event will consist of a free screening of the documentary film The Road to Fallujah. As one Military Commander said, "As went Fallujah, so went Iraq." The Road to Fallujah gives a detailed analysis of the circumstances that led to the siege of Fallujah, the actual events of the siege itself, and the consequences of the battle that have shaped the present situation in Iraq and beyond.
Location
Boston University, 2nd floor of the George Sherman Union building, in the GSU Conference Auditorium 775 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA
Time
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM