Posted 9:47 AM
by Mary
Patricia Ackerman and Jodie Evans discuss their recent trip to Iraq
Friday, July 11th @ 8 p.m.
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On Friday, July 11 at 8 p.m. Reverend Patricia Ackerman of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Jodie Evans of Code Pink will be reporting on their recent trip to Iraq. (They will, in fact, be arriving back from that trip only earlier that day.) They were part of a United for Peace and Justice and Global Exchange delegation to Baghdad that went to set up a Baghdad Watch Center, which will be monitoring the U.S. Occupation and the human rights situation in that country.
On Monday morning during a live phone interview from Baghdad with
Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, Medea Benjamin, of Global Exchange and Code Pink, reported that they had initially expected the American military personnel they encountered to be hostile to their presence and to the whole idea of a Baghdad Watch Center. Benjamin went on to say that contrary to expectation they were given two thumbs up by the American G.I.'s and officers with whom they talked. The basic message was, "Anything you can do to get us home sooner will be great."
