Iraqi Women Still Fighting for Freedom and Equality

Posted: December 6th, 2009 | Author: Anne Jaclard | Filed under: News, Women's Liberation | Tags: , | 1 Comment »

Exclusive interview by MHI with Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), which she co-founded shortly after the US invasion in 2003. Read the rest of this entry »


Left Forum 2009: Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance

Posted: May 4th, 2009 | Author: Anne Jaclard | Filed under: Events | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

The National Organization for the Iraqi Freedom Struggles (on the web at NO-IFS) sponsored the panel “Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance” at this year’s Left Forum.

Houzan Mahmoud, International Representative of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), had been scheduled to speak but was unable to make the trip to NYC. We hope she will come later in the year. The talks at the panel were, in this order: Bill Weinberg on various civil society organizations and the need to solidarize with them; Anne Jaclard on the work OWFI has done and its significance for freedom movements; and Michael Zweig on the recent conference he attended in Iraq at which a number of labor unions formed a coalition.

Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance, Part 1
Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance, Part 2