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See also the Military Families Panel with Cindy Sheehan;
the Building the International Movement panel with George Galloway;
and coverage of student participation by the National Union of Students and Campus Antiwar Network.

International Peace Conference - London, December 10, 2005
Section on the Current Situation and Moving the Conference Statement

Andrew Murray of the Stop the War Coaltion and Kate Hudson, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), moderated this opening session. Murray introduced Tony Benn (pictured at right), former Labour MP and cabinet minister, who gave the opening address. Lindsey German, the convener of Stop the War, then moved the conference statement which called for a worldwide demonstration on March 18th. Next, Hudson commenced the speakers' portion of the session.

You may download MP3 audio (64 kbps mono) of the following speakers:

Andrew Murray, Stop the War Coalition; Tony Benn, former Labour MP and cabinet minister; Lindsey German, convener of the Stop the War Coalition, moving the conference statement.

MP3 audio; 25 minutes; 11.5 MB

Kate Hudson, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND); Prof. Elaheh Koolaee (Teheran University, former Iranian MP); and Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies.

MP3 Audio; 14:34 minutes; 6.7 MB

Sami Ramadani, Iraqi writer and academic

MP3 Audio; 11:07 minutes; 5.1 MB

Mazin Younis of the Iraqi League

MP3 Audio; 8:48 minutes; 4.1 MB

Ayatollah Khalisi of the Iraqi National Foundation Congress spoke in Arabic. He later spoke to Socialist Worker (UK). He is pictured below.

The audio program is © 2005 Traprock Peace Center. The audio may be played on the radio with email notice to Traprock at charles@traprockpeace.org and attribution. Otherwise, the audio may be downloaded for personal use only. The Stop the War Coalition, convener of the conference, may post the audio on its website with attribution. All other rights reserved. Audio recorded and edited by Charles Jenks.

See also the Military Families Panel with Cindy Sheehan; the Building the International Movement panel with George Galloway; and coverage of student participation with the National Union of Students and the Campus Antiwar Network.

For reports on the conference, see the Stop the War Coalition website. And see Eric Ruder's report from London: Sami Ramadani on the latest “milestone” election in Iraq; reports from Socialist Worker (UK); David Swanson; and Kevin Zeese.

Photos © 2005 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved.

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Tony Benn
1400 international delegates participated in the conference.	Opening Session.  Patrick Murray wtih microphone moderated with Kate Hudson (to his left). Lindsey German (to his right) moved the conference statement.	Phyllis Bennis, Jeremy Corbyn (Labour MP) and Ayatollah Khalisi
	Sami Ramadani
Kate Hudson