Greetings From Missile Street
A People's History of the United States
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A young Iraqi girl and a song called "My Daughter"composed and performed by David Rovics.
(4.6 MB)
To hear more by David Rovics, go to www.davidrovics.com.
Kathy Kelly talks about an Iraqi family that provided her hospitality during her stay in Basra.
(8.9 MB)
Lauren Cannon talks with a young Iraqi woman named Summer about her opportunities under sanctions.
(8.2 MB)
In the summer of 2000, members of Voices in the Wilderness, (www.vitw.org) a campaign to stop the economic sanctions against Iraq, committed an act of civil disobedience. Facing up to twelve years in jail and fines in excess of one-million dollars, the delegates went to live in Basra, Iraq with families who survive on the U.N. Oil for Food Program rations. Delegates, who included Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly, experienced first hand the hardships Iraqi families experience due to the economic sanctions imposed against their country. According to UNICEF, 5000 children under the age of five die every month, and one in ten children under the age of one in Iraq will die before his or her first birthday as a direct result of the economic sanctions.
Mainstream media in the United States has shown extensive coverage of Saddam Hussein, but virtually nothing about the people and families who live in Iraq. "Greetings from Missile Street" shows ordinary people living in Iraq, who have paid the price under economic sanctions.
Film Festival Screenings of
"Greetings From Missile Street":
Past Festivals:
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Women in the Director's Chair Film Festival,
—Chicago, Spring 2001 -
Flickerings Film Festival,
—July 2001 -
Seattle Underground Film Festival,
—October 2001 -
Vermont International Documentary Film Festival,
—October 18-21, 2001 -
Visualized Film Festival,
Denver, CO,
—November 8-11, 2001 -
"Why They Hate U.S.!" Film Festival
Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA.
January 17, 2002 -
K-Can Film Festival
Bainbridge Island, WA
March 22-24, 2002
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One World International Human Rights Film Festival,
Prague, Czech Republic
April 2002
Available throughout the festival for viewing as part of the festival videotheque and screening room. -
Tyneside Radical Film Festival
May 15, 2002
Newcastle Quayside, England -
Before & After Film Festival
Yale University, New Haven, CT
September 13, 2002
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Silver Lake Film Festival
Los Angeles, CA
September 13-21, 2002
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Peace and Justice Film Festival
Asheville, NC
Western North Carolina Peace Coalition
November 14, 2002
"Greetings" has aired extensively on Free Speech TV, DISH Network channel 9415. Check their website (www.fstv.org) for details.
"Greetings"
is now available through the
AFSC Video & Film Lending Library
in Cambridge, Mass.
Go to:
http://www.afsc.org/nero/nevlib.htm
Scroll down, or click:
"Videos for background on the Crisis since September 11". There's a link to an order form at that same web address.
∞ To obtain a copy of
"Greetings From Missile Street", contact Joe Public Films at
joepublicfilms@yahoo.com