ISBN10: 0275992438, ISBN13: 9780275992439, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 have thus far been hidden from public view.These stories have been gathered on the dusty streets of Baghdad and from tiny farming villages in the Sunni Triangle. They were not collected from the lobby of a five-star hotel, nor from behind the tinted windows of an armored SUV. We meet activists who are unarmed, trained civilians who put their bodies in between rival factions to promote peace, sitting in front of tanks and bulldozers and fasting in the desert on the Iraq-Kuwait border shortly before 130,000 U.S. troops invaded in 2003. We also are given an unvarnished view of everyday people in Iraqcab drivers, an unemployed engineer, a newspaper editor, farmers in a rural villageall living their lives as normally as ...
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ISBN10: 0275992438, ISBN13: 9780275992439, [publisher: ABC-Clio, Incorporated] Hardcover pp. xv + 164, Map
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]