Troops out of Iraq march, London , October 2004
One of the events I’ll miss because I’m in Paris is ‘Under Seige: Islam, war and the media’, a half-day conference organised by Media Workers Against the War at the London School of Economics on Saturday Nov 15 , with registration from 1.15pm for a 2pm start and the event ending at 6.30pm. You can find fuller details on line and can even book your ticket through a secure booking system.
Among those who have agreed to take part in plenary sessions and workshops are photographers Guy Smallman and Marc Vallée, journalists and writers including Peter Oborne, Nick Davies, Uzma Hussain, Roshan Salih, Explo Nani-Kofi and Eamonn McCann.
‘Close Guantanamo’ – Amnesty International protest at US Embassy in London, Jan 2007
Three people very much involved with Guantanamo Bay are campaigning solicitor Louise Christian, former prisoner Moazzam Begg and author of the Guantanamo Files, Andy Worthington. Others include Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain, Lyndsey German of Stop the War, Jeremy Dear, General SSecretary of the NUJ and Mark Almond, lecturer in modern history at Oriel College Oxford.
The conference aims to “examine what media workers and students can do to improve coverage of the “war on terror”, to bring critical views into the mainstream, raise the profile of the anti-war movement, and create our own sources of critical news and comment.”