CASI member Eliza Hilton's article on the conference appeared in Cambridge student newspaper Varsity on 18 November. CASI's Colin Rowat spoke to the Critical Lawyers' Group at the University of Kent at Canterbury. CASI's Colin Rowat spoke at Hills Road Sixth Form's Amnesty International group. In Cambridge we ran a stall in the city centre distributing information, and attracted attention with some simple but effective street theatre . Speaker meeting and slideshow by Milan Rai of Voices in the Wilderness UK, recently returned from Iraq.
Felicity is a moving speaker and avid campaigner against the sanctions on Iraq.
Her well-attended talk relayed some experiences from her most recent trip and offered insights into the politics behind the sanctions. In the few months before March 1998, we gathered over 1500 signatures on a petition to Robin Cook, the British Foreign Secretary, demanding an end to the sanctions on Iraq on humanitarian grounds. The petition was handed in to the Foreign Office by two CASI committee members, who subsequently received a short letter of thanks, remarkably similar to ones received by everyone who wrote to the Foreign Office at that time. Having just returned to the UK from a sanctions-breaking trip to Iraq, Milan Rai , writer and peace activist, gave a talk describing his experiences on this trip and discussed the sanctions on Iraq. Here is a precis.