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Ali Issa
Rise Up: Iraq
![[Baghdad's Tahrir Square, June 2011. From the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq.]](/content_images/3/sm_OWFI-June-2011.jpg "[Baghdad's Tahrir Square, June 2011. From the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq.]")
The street that your question describes as “quiet” is actually silent only as a result of repression, especially after the protests of February 2011 when the authorities revealed their violence openly—using the army to clamp down on nonviolent protests and firing live ammunition at peaceful protestors. — Falah Alwan, 22 January 2013, The Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq. As the world marks ten years since the US invasion of Iraq, many will be ...
Keep Reading »Tipping Towards Iraq's Squares: An Interview with Falah Alwan
The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave of mass anti-government protests mostly centered around the provinces al-Anbar, Niniweh, and Salah al-Deen, shaking Iraq since 21 December 2012. These evolving mobilizations have sometimes brought out numbers approaching hundreds of thousands (as in Mosul’s Ahrar Square) and led to the blocking of a ...
Keep Reading »The Unfinished Story of Iraq's Oil Law: An Interview with Greg Muttitt
“No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years of the occupation as global opposition to it grew. But as Iraq faded from the headlines in 2009, the struggle over its oil continued. In the following interview, Greg Muttitt, investigative journalist and author of the groundbreaking Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq (2012), discusses the attempts by ...
Keep Reading »On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hashmeya Muhsin al-Saadawi
![[Hashmeya Muhsin al-Saadawi with colleagues at the 2012 May Day march in Basra. Image from Electrical Utility Workers Union in Iraq]](/content_images/3/sm_issainterviewhashmeya.jpg "[Hashmeya Muhsin al-Saadawi with colleagues at the 2012 May Day march in Basra. Image from Electrical Utility Workers Union in Iraq]")
Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s growing police/military powers, their movement faces an array of antagonistic forces. In this wide-ranging discussion with Ali Issa, Basra-based Hashmeya Muhsin al–Saadawi, president of the Electrical Utility Workers Union in Iraq, and the first woman ...
Keep Reading »Iraq After Maliki's "100 Days": An Interview with Iraqi Organizer Uday al-Zaidi
![[Uday al-Zaidi. Image from Associated Press.]](/content_images/3/sm_iraq-bush-shoe-2008-12-22-7-33-1.jpg "[Uday al-Zaidi. Image from Associated Press.]")
On February 27, 2011, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gave his parliament 100 days to "reform" their sometimes totally nonfunctional ministries or face consequences, in response “to people’s demands” as he put it. Those demands have taken the form of some of the least noted events of the Arab Spring: large mobilizations in Baghdad's Tahrir Square; mass acts of civil disobedience and a general strike in Mosul; and the resignations of several governors all over ...
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Ali Issa's translations have appeared in Banipal and the PEN World Atlas Blog. He is the field organizer for the War Resisters League, lives in Brooklyn, New York and can be contacted at Ali@warresisters.org. His other Jadaliyya contributions can be found here and here.
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