Protests continue in Iraq Interview with shoe throwers brother

This is an interesting interview with the brother of the man who inspired the world when he threw his shoes at the imbecile Bush.


The Shoe Thrower's Brother from JOYCE! on Vimeo.

The video above and the report below is from the Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Demonstrations continued across Iraq in today's weekly Friday protest.

Today, protest activities were reported taking place in Basra, Fallujah, Diwaniya, Tella'afer, Mosul, Nassiriya, and Tahrir Square in Baghdad.  There was a demonstration outside the Iraq embassy in London as well.  Inside Iraq, many of the protests were met with crackdowns from government security forces, resulting in numerous arrests. In one case, eyewitnesses reported that security forces fired live ammunition at protesters.

Crowds were chanting anti-Maliki slogans including the following translated chants:

"FRIDAY AFTER FRIDAY AND WE WILL GET MALIKI OUT!"

"GET OUT MALIKI, WE DON'T WANT YOU!"

"BROTHERS SUNNA AND SHIA'A, THIS COUNTRY WE WILL NOT SELL!"

"LIAR! NOURI AL MALIKI IS A LIAR!"

IVAW organizers inform soldiers deploying to Iraq out of Fort Hood about growing Iraqi resistance movement

As you know, IVAW has a team of organizers reaching out to soldiers at Fort Hood this summer as part of our Operation Recovery campaign to stop the deployment of traumatized troops. We recently have learned that approximately 3,000 soldiers are being sent from Fort Hood to Iraq over the course of the summer. IVAW is now looking into which units are deploying to Iraq, and we will attempt targeted outreach to those soldiers to educate them about the growing peaceful protest movement there whose chief demand is U.S. troops out.

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Iraq Veterans Against the War