• Paul George (Peninsula Peace & Justice Center), KPFK-FM, Los Angeles, CA (10 minutes)

• National network formed to end 'war' on Iraq, Colorado Daily (Boulder), by Michael de Yoanna.
  DENVER -- It was coincidental that a national two-day conference on Iraq was held in Colorado just after the U.S. and Britain launched airstrikes on radar sites in Baghdad, Iraq.  About 100 community leaders representing more than 60 organizations from around the country gathered at the Auraria campus over the weekend for the National Organizing Conference on Iraq -- a conference for activists dedicated to ending the economic sanctions against Iraq.      Click Here for Full Story

• Rocky Mountain Indy Media Center, 4-minute Audio Story, By Patricia Townsend.     Click Here For Link to Audio Recording

• Iraqi Supporters Plan Protests, Denver Post
  Americans who disagree with U.S. bombings and economic sanctions in Iraq plan several protest actions in coming months.  The National Organizing Conference on Iraq, meeting for a second day in Denver on Sunday, voted to hold a nationwide Day of Outrage later this year.  It "will be not a violent thing but a day when we express our extreme anger at the government process here, over the issue of sanctions," said Mag Seaman, a member of the Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace, one of about 50 groups from across the country meeting at the Auraria Campus.  Also planned are an Aug. 6 protest of radioactive materials discarded by U.S. forces in Iraq and other countries, and a June 11 lobbying trip to Washington.

February 18:

• Group seeks to aid Iraqi citizens, Denver Post, By Karen Rouse
  It's a message they've cried from the sidelines for years: Drop the sanctions, halt the bombings and ultimately free vulnerable Iraqi citizens from disease, hunger and death.  But with Friday's air strikes on Iraq by U.S. and British warplanes came a heightened American awareness of tensions in the region. And delivering that message took on a greater sense of urgency for about 100 activists participating in the National Organizing Conference on Iraq this weekend in Denver.  Click Here For Full Story

• Conference focuses on hardships of Iraqi people under sanctions, Rocky Mountain News, By Kevin Flynn
  From small-scale street theater to a march on Washington, activists who converged on Denver this weekend are brainstorming ways to put a human face on the Iraqi people.  Friday's bombing raids on Iraqi radar sites, ordered by President Bush and the allied British leadership, put an exclamation point behind the two-day second National Organizing Conference on Iraq, which aims to end U.S.-led economic sanctions against the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.  Click Here for Full Story

February 17:   

• Four of Denver's TV Stations (2, 4, 7, 9) covered the first day of the conference.

• Radio interviews on Denver's KOA and Berkeley's KPFA

• Denver protesters decry airstrikes. Some view bombing in Iraq as `sign toward escalation', Rocky Mountain News, By Tillie Fong
  Two dozen people braved bone-chilling temperatures Friday night in Denver to protest the U.S. military airstrikes in Iraq.  "This was not justified," said Carolyn Scarr, 57, of Berkeley, Calif., of the bombing.  "The U.S. has no right to enforce a no-fly zone over Iraq. The justification is that we had to attack the installations that attack U.S. planes, but Iraq has every right to react to our planes that fly over their land. We're violating their sovereignty."     Click Here for Full Story

• Local Iraqi, Kuwaiti agree raid unnecessary, Denver Post, By Virginia Culver
  Feb. 17, 2001 - Their countries were once bitter enemies, but a local Iraqi and a Kuwaiti were united Friday in their opposition to the U.S.-led airstrikes near Baghdad.  Baghdad native Amar Al-Saher said he is "opposed to Saddam Hussein, but the continued bombing of Iraq doesn't solve anything.  Click Here For Full Story

February 16:

• All five Denver TV stations (Channels 2, 4, 7, 9, 31) covered the impromptu protest we had in response to the Feb. 16th U.S. bombing of Baghdad.  Several of the stories had surprising depth.

• Bob Choflet & Mark Schneider (CCMEP) on Laura Flanders show, KWAB Radio 1490 (Working Assets Radio for Change), Boulder, Colorado

• Activists launch campaign to end Iraq sanctions, Colorado Daily, By Terje Langeland
  Activists opposed to the U.S.-backed economic sanctions against Iraq plan to gather in Denver this weekend to forge a "powerful, nationally coordinated campaign" against the sanctions and against continued bombing of the country..."The American people have to understand that the war against Iraq has never ended," said Paul George, director of the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center in Palo Alto, Calif., who is helping organize the Denver conference.  Click Here For Full Story

• Paul George (Peninsula Peace & Justice) & Rahul Mahajan (Austin Peace Coalition) on KPFA, Berkeley, California.

• Paul George (Peninsula Peace & Justice Center) on KZSU-FM, Stanford University Radio Station, Stanford, California (1 hour)

• Dan Winters (Rocky Mtn Peace & Justice Center) on WBAI (New York City), Barbara Nimri Aziz: Liberation Radio show
  

• Ben Harnke (Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace - CCMEP) on Palo Alto, California Radio Station, KUPP (Paul George show)

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