ITEM OVERVIEW
A staggering 4 DVD collection, based around the World Tribunal On Iraq sessions in NYC in May 2004 and Istanbul in June 2005, documented with 5 one hour programs.
An invaluable record of the crimes committed by the United States and its "Coalition of the Willing" partners in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Iraqi witnesses and experts in international law, human rights, science, culture and history testified for three days before an international "Jury of Conscience" that included Arundhati Roy (India), Eve Ensler (U.S), Chandra Muzaffar (Malaysia), Dumisa Nsebeza (South Africa), Francois Houtart (Belgium), and Taty Almeida (Argentina). The first DVD contains 2-hour programs offering a selection of testimony and discussion from all three days.
Witnesses and Advocates include:
Niloufer Bagwat, Human Rights Lawyer (India);
Dahr Jamail, Independent Journalist (US);
Denis Halliday, Former UN Assistant Secretary General (Ireland); Haifa Zangana, Writer and Painter (Iraq); Tim Goodrich, Co-Founder Iraq Veterans Against the War (US); Hans von Sponeck, Former UN Assistant Secretary General and UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq (Switzerland) .
On the 2nd DVD, David Barsamian, founder of Alternative Radio, has a series of conversations about the various roots and repercussions of the war at the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul, Turkey, during June 23rd-27th, 2005. Interview subjects included in the 2 hour documentary are:
Dahr Jamail, journalist covering Iraq for a variety of media outlets; Denis Halliday, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations; Abdul Al Bayati, Iraqi political activist;
Tim Goodrich, co-founder, Iraq Veterans Against the War; Richard Falk, international law professor and author; Chandra Muzaffar, Malaysian human rights activist and author; Haifa Zangana, Iraqi women's rights activist and member of alternative Communist Party in Iraq.
The third disc is the NYC Tribunal documentary (taken from the Deep Dish Shocking And Awful documentary, while the fourth DVD is a sampler, documenting some of the incredible work that Deep Dish TV has produced over the last decade.
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