First international and united meeting of the anti-occupation field. Program

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Iraq, Sovereignty and Democratic Reconstruction

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IRAQUÍ POLITICAL RESISTANCE

Gijon, June 18-20, 2010

Public Activities Program

IraqSolidaridad (www.iraqsolidaridad.org), May 20, 2010

07:30 pm. OPENING

Opening: Manuel García Fonseca (Organizing Committee, Asturias Arab Cause Solidarity Committee).

Welcome from the authorities by Jesús Montes Estrada (Third Deputy Mayor and City Counselor of International Cooperation at Gijón/Xixón City Council and Rafael A. Palacios García (Director of the l´Axencia Asturiana de Cooperación al Desarrollu).

07:30-07:45h BREAK

07:45-09:00 pm. INAUGURAL CONFERENCE

“Is it just Iraq?” by Pedro Martínez Montávez (Professor Emeritus of the Department of Arab Studies and Islam at the Autonomous University of Madrid). Moderator Jesús Iglesias (spokesperson for the United Leftist Party and Member of the Parliament of the Principality of Asturias).

Saturday, June, 19 2010

10:30 a.m-12:00 noon. FIRST PLENAY SESSION “Chaos, Sectarism and Corruption: The False Democratization of an Iraq under Occupation”

Round table and debate. Participants Haifa Zangana (Iraqi writer and analyst in exile since 1975, United Kingdom) and Dirk Adriaensens (member of the Executive Committee of the BRussells Tribunal, Belgium). Moderator Manuel Raposo (member of the Executive Committee for the International Tribunal on Iraq in Portugal).

12:00-12:30 p.m.: BREAK

12:30-2:00 p.m. SECOND PLENARY SESSION: “From Inside: the fight for sovereignty and civil and social rights in Iraq”

Participants [connexion to Damascus, Amman and Baghdad]: Asma al-Haidari (London School of Economics licentiate, activist and human rights rapporteur), Yusef Hamdan, (leader of the communist Union for the People party) and Sheij Ahmed al-Ganim (Secretary General of the Council of Iraq’s Southern Tribes). Moderator: Sigyn Meder (Member of the Swedish Iraq Solidarity Association in Stockholm).

2:30 - 5:00 pm. MEAL

5:00-6:30 pm. THIRD PLENARY SESSION “Dominating Iraq: The False Arguments in the Iraqi Conflict”

Participants [connexion to Damascus and Amman]: Judeir al-Murshidi, (Secretary General of the National Islamic Patriotic Front of Iraq) Sheij Bashar Mohamed al-Faidi (spokesman and member of the Executive Committee of the Iraqi Association of Muslim Scholars) and Sheij Ali al-Yuburi, (General Secretary of the Political Council of the Iraqi Resistance). Moderator Jaled al-Maani, (Director of the Center for Studies of Independence, Damascus).

6:30-7:00 pm. BREAK

7:00-9:00 pm. CLOSING

“The capacity of the Iraqi Society to recover its future” [connexion to Baghdad]: Ayatollah Yawad al-Jalesi (General Secretary of the Iraqi National Foundational Congress). Presenter and moderator Jaume Botey (Lecturer of History of Culture at Autonomus University of Barcelona, Plataforma per l'Alliberament i la Sobirania de l'Iraq, PASI)

“The Iraqi resistance and the U.S. anti-war movement: what was and what's next” by John Catalinotto (Spokesperson of the US organization International Action Center) and message form Ramsey Clark (IAC President, lawyer and former U.S. Attorney General in the B. Johnson administration).