Media Alert Stop the War Coalition
February 13, 2004 Huge turn out for anti war meeting expected Almost a thousand people will attend a Sydney anti war meeting this Sunday (6pm, February 15, 2004) on the first anniversary of the global stop the war mobilisations. John Pilger and Andrew Wilkie will address the meeting and then answer questions following a screening of Pilger=92s Breaking the Silence : truth and lies in the war on terror. Tickets are sold out with the unprecedented response reflecting a growing public unease at Australia=92s involvement in the continuing tragedy in Iraq. On February 15 last year millions of people joined huge demonstrations in over 600 cities around the world to oppose the US led invasion of Iraq. In Sydney over half million people joined the march against the war. The New York Times described the movement as the second global "superpower". The continuing resistance to the occupation in Iraq and the growing scandal over government lies about WMD intelligence is fuelling a reinvigoration of the anti-war movement. WHAT : Breaking the Silence: truth and lies in the war on terror a screening of John Pilger's latest film followed by a discussion with WHO: JOHN PILGER & ANDREW WILKIE WHEN : Sunday, February 15, 6 pm WHERE: Clancy Auditorium, University of NSW Gate 9, High St, Kensington For information and comment: Pip Hinman 0412 139 968 Jon Edwards 0428 213 146 Media are asked to call the above numbers to obtain access. Breaking the Silence: truth and lies in the war on terror a screening of John Pilger's latest film followed by a discussion with JOHN PILGER & ANDREW WILKIE "An astonishing piece of journalism. Pilger's arsenal of facts is awesome." - UK Guardian. John Pilger's latest documentary, Breaking the Silence: Truth and lies in the war on terror was filmed by John Pilger and his team in Afghanistan and the United States and includes previously unseen material from Iraq. The film investigates George W Bush's "war on terror". In "liberated" Afghanistan, America has its military base and pipeline access, while the people have the warlords who are, says one woman, "in many ways worse than the Taliban". In Washington, a series of remarkable interviews includes senior Bush officials and former intelligence officers. In the week that the Hutton inquiry into the death of the British scientist Dr David Kelly releases its report, a former senior CIA official tells Pilger that the whole issue of weapons of mass destruction was "95 per cent charade". Andrew Wilkie, who is interviewed in the film, was formerly a senior Australian intelligence officer with the Office of National Assessments. He resigned his position in March in protest at the Howard's government's decision to commit troops to a war on Iraq. Wilkie has argued since his resignation that the war was never about combating "terrorism" or "weapons of mass destruction" but rather about US interests in the Middle East. Both John Pilger and Andrew Wilkie will be answering questions at the film screening, organised by the Stop the War Coalition. Pilger and Wilkie will also be addressing the "Troops out of Iraq" rally in Sydney on March 20, 12 noon at Hyde Park North. -- Visit the proposed Leftlink web site at http://www.leftlink.net/ -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
