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DESCRIPTION:Sunday, March 19 at Noon  Direct from Iraq, independent journalist Urban 
 Hamid  At the Not in Our Name office, 3945 Opal Street (at 40 Street, near 
 Broadway), Oakland  Please RSVP as space is limited. Refreshments will be 
 served. Donation requested.   Not In Our Name is honored to host 
 Iraqi-Swedish journalist Urban Hamid for an intimate discussion and a 
 preview of his new video footage from Iraq.   "The US has turned Iraq from 
 a secular dictatorship into a theocracy" -Urban Hamid   Some of the 
 questions Mr. Hamid will confront include: 1) What does the U.S. mean by 
 "democracy", and what is the reality of this in Iraq?  2) Why do the people 
 of Ramadi now oppose the occupation, whereas they once welcomed US troops? 
 3) Who is the resistance, and how should people view them?  Mr. Hamid has 
 spent most of the last three years in Iraq, including as recently as 
 December. Because of his close connections with Iraq and the amount of time 
 he has spent on the ground, he is able to describe in great detail the 
 complexities the Iraqi attitude towards the American occupation, the 
 resistance and the conflicts between different religious and ethnic groups 
 within the country. His video footage also appears in Michael Moore's 
 documentary "Fahrenheit 911", and the Shocking and Awful program "The Real 
 Face of Occupation".  Urban Hamid was born and raised in Sweden by his 
 Swedish mother and Iraqi father. During the last ten years, Mr. Hamid as 
 also reported extensively from the Philippines, Pakistan, Afghanistan, 
 Egypt, Palestine, Kirgiqistan, Iran, Cambodia, Chiapas (Mexico), China, 
 Mongolia, and Vietnam.  This one day visit to the Bay Area is part of a 
 U.S. tour sponsored by Deep Dish TV.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/14/91623.php
SUMMARY:Direct from Iraq, independent journalist Urban Hamid
LOCATION:At the Not in Our Name office, 3945 Opal Street (at 40 Street, near 
 Broadway), Oakland. A short walk east of Macarthur BART.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/14/91623.php
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