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RECENT JNV NEWS

Young Campaigner of the Year: Maya Anne Evans, JNV worker, has won the The Peter Duffy Award, given by the human rights group Liberty (the Young Campaigner of the Year Award).

IRAN - A CRUCIAL DOCUMENT

All year, JNV has been drawing attention to the promising negotiating offer Iran made to the US in 2003, which was rejected out of hand by the White House. The text of the offer was leaked to the Washington Post, and is available on the JNV website here.

IRAQ: 1.2 MILLION WAR DEATHS, POLL ESTIMATES

The mainstream British media has censored itself once again, refusing to discuss or even note the result of a poll conducted Iraq by a mainstream British polling agency, ORB, which indicates that as many as 1.2m Iraqis may have died violent deaths as a result of the invasion and the conditions it has created. The one mainstream newspaper story (in the Observer) is headlined: "Greenspan admits Iraq was about oil, as deaths put at 1.2m", which tends to obscure the most shocking aspect of the paragraphs that follow.

IRAN

On 21 August, Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency reached a breakthrough agreement designed to clear up questions about Iran's nuclear programme - by December 2007. The US and the EU are demonstrating hostility, and trying to undermine this agreement.

More about Iran here.

IRAN - Drawing Paradise on the 'Axis of Evil' exhibition
now showing at the Desmond Tutu Centre for Peace Studies, Liverpool Hope University, L16 9JD
Telephone: 0151 291 3000

This JNV exhibition of prints by Emily Johns has been travelling the country over the last eighteen months. The exhibition is about Britain's relationship with Iran over the last century. It is a beautiful and useful resource for gaining an understanding of a country that has been and will continue to be a target of Britain's foreign policy. PDF of catalogue of the exhibition with essay by Milan Rai on Iran's nuclear programme above. Contact JNV (0845 458 9571) to use this exhibition either in a framed form or as posters.

CHILDREN AGAINST WAR DVD

Thanks to JNV fundraising, Children Against War managed to send Sonia Azad, a 12-year-old British Muslim girl, to Jordan to make a film about Iraqi children refugees. We're helping to edit the film, and will be supporting the launch event in November, after which the DVD will be available from this website. Sonia also took over £1000 in donations to give to Iraqi refugee families now living in Jordan. Some of this was distributed via Direct Aid Initiative. Read the original call for support.

TERRORISM, REALISM AND DENIAL

The latest JNV briefing (3 July) addresses the link between al-Qaeda terrorism and Britain's wars abroad.

Justice Not Vengeance is still distributing our own documentary DVD 'Counter Terror: Build Justice' for only £5 inc p&p. It deals with the roots of terrorism - featuring the analysis of Michael Scheuer (CIA bin Laden expert), Bruce Kent (peace campaigner), Milan Rai of JNV and others.

JNV is also distributing Milan Rai's 7/7: The London Bombings, Islam and the Iraq Wars - now for only £8 each inc p&p.

IRAQ COMMISSION

JNV has made a submission to the Channel 4 cross-party 'Iraq Commission'. Read more

NEWS SCREEN

JNV experimented with carrying a daily comment on the news at the beginning of the month: 30 May, 31 May, 1 June, 2 June, 3 June and 4 June.

LATEST BRIEFINGS

IRAQ: Saddam's Crimes: Avoiding The West's Responsibility (14 January 2007).

TRIDENT: JNV has a briefing in response to Trident renewal (5 December 2006).

MAYA EVANS - BOOK

Maya Anne Evans was the first person to be convicted of participating in an unauthorised demonstration in the vicinity of Parliament. She's written a moving and gripping book about her experiences Naming The Dead.

Nominated for the: 'Index on Censorship freedom of expression awards 2007'

"Disarmingly honest. It is a charming and uplifting read."
Mark Thomas

"Maya Evans’ 'Naming the dead' is a tale of personal courage that shames our anti-free speech and protest Government in particular."
Shami Chakrabarti- Director of Liberty The National Council for Civil Liberties

"The law, in this instance, is an ass; and Evans' charming book is a thorough indictment of it."
The Guardian

ISRAEL/LEBANON/GAZA

JNV has four anti-war briefings on the Lebanon/Gaza crises: 'Blair vs. Peace' from 30 July, 'Hezbollah' from 26 July, 'Stop Israel' from 19 July, and The Gaza Siege from 8 July.

AFGHANISTAN

Here is a 13 July 2006 JNV briefing on the British deployment to southern Afghanistan.

IRAQ

On 15 December 2005, an important Sunni group, the Muslim Scholars Association, which is linked to the Sunni insurgency, called for the rapid withdrawal of US-UK forces, and their replacement by a military and political UN presence - exactly as JNV has been proposing since September 2003. Read more

More JNV materials and useful links about the invasion and occupation of Iraq are here. See especially the Voices in the Wilderness UK website.

For higher resolution images of Emily Johns' depiction of the Haditha massacre, please see image 1, image 2, and image 3 (250kb jpegs). These images are copyright free for campaigning purposes. These images were commissioned for the current Voices in the Wilderness postcard campaign.

Materials

JNV badges and other campaigning materials here.

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