Also take a look at Robert Fisk's commentary, April 17, 2003: "For the People on the Streets, This is not Liberation but a New Colonial Oppression"

Readings on War and Repression
www.nion.us/discussion_groups.htm
Click here to find readings recommended by the Not in Our Name Statement of Conscience working group on:

Background of the U.S.-British war on Iraq:
Robert Fisk interview from Baghdad
Raymond Lotta on the Bush Doctrine
Rahul Mahajan and Robert Jensen on Myths & Facts
John Pilger column "Disobey"
Jonathan Schell on The Case Against the War

Attacks on immigrants, dissent, and civil liberties:
ACLU on the USA-Patriot Act
Nancy Chang on Silencing Dissent
Clark Kissinger on Turning Back a Police State
La Resistencia on Stories of the Disappeared
Lawyers Committee on Human Rights on the Treatment of Immigrants

Comments by poets and authors:
Russell Banks, a letter to my granddaughter
Tony Kushner, remarks at the Evening of Conscience
W.S. Merwin, "Ogres" (a new poem read at "Poems Not Fit for the White House")