Inside the Red Zone A Veteran for Peace Reports from Iraq

Name: Inside the Red Zone A Veteran for Peace Reports from Iraq
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ISBN: 9780275992439

ISBN-10: 0275992438

ISBN-13: 9780275992439

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mike Ferner, Cindy Sheehan

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Mike Ferner, a peace activist and journalist from Ohio, traveled to Baghdad twice, once just before the U.S. invasion in March 2003 and once again a year later. In this book, he profiles Cliff Kindy of the Christian Peacemaker Teams; Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness; and other peace activists, soldiers, journalists, and ordinary Iraqis he met during his two extended visits to what became known as the Red Zone, the area outside the protected Green Zone enclave. He provides a rare inside look into the daily life of Iraqis before and after the war as well as a collective profile of segments of the contemporary American peace movement that has thus far been hidden from public view. These…

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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 9/30/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

MIKE FERNER is an American peace activist, a member of Veterans For Peace, and a freelance journalist who has published articles and commentaries on Iraq and other current affairs issues in such periodicals or online venues as the Nation, Truthout, Z, Common Dreams, and Counterpunch.




Into Iraq



The guardians of reality do their thing



Just minutes until midnight



Welcome back to Baghdad



The news in the new Iraq



Baghdad College High School



From "Keep Yo Head" to "God Bless Us All" : U.S. and Iraqi students begin a conversation



Faris : friend and translator



Democracy, dictators, and the fate of Widad Shwaish



On their way to Abu Ghraib



Inside the wire at Abu Hishma



Two mysterious deaths and the incident near Ramadi



Courage under fire



How ya gonna keep 'em down on the Indiana farm (once they've seen Kerbala?)



From an act of desperation to a million hits a day



Hanging with the 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Division



An uncommon mom



The Albanian mafia and other stories from circus 2 Iraq



Cops and clowns



Springtime in Fallujah


Conclusion : leaving Iraq


Afterword : where are they now?