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2005-08-29

Dahr Jamail

New on DVD: Falluja 2004

*A film by Japanese independent journalist Toshikuni Doi**

Falluja April 2004 A documentary by Japanese independent journalist Toshikuni Doihttp://www.progressiveportal.org/store/ Fallujah has become a symbol of the resistance movement against the U.S. occupation of Iraq. In April 2004, the U.S. forces invaded Fallujah with several thousand soldiers. Why did Fallujah become a base of the resistance against the occupation? How did the U.S. forces attack? Who fought against them? And what damages and injuries did people suffer? Ten days after the siege of Falluja was lifted, Toshikuni Doi, a Japanese independent journalist, went into Fallujah. His documentary investigates the causes of, the conditions during, and damages from the siege. The documentary is primarily in Arabic, with English subtitles. DVD, 55 minutes.

Toshikuni Doi is a Japanese journalist who has been covering Iraq since just after the U.S. invasion.

*ORDER ONLINE AT:*http://www.progressiveportal.org/store/

"For a well documented, powerful film of what really occurred in Fallujah during the April, 2004 siege, this is a must see. The film begins by investigating why the resistance began in Fallujah shortly after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. The film then accurately chronicles what occurred in Fallujah during the failed April siege. I couldn't recommend this more highly. To get a more complete understanding of the failed occupation of Iraq, watch this film and encourage others to do the same ./" - Dahr Jamail

*In addition, here is a petitition against a film being made about Fallujah in Hollywood which I encourage you to sign and distribute far and wide:

To: Patricia McQueeney, Mr Ford's agent*

Harrison Ford has announced that he wishes to play the role of the general in charge of the assault and seige of Fallujah, in an upcoming movie to be entitled No True Glory. This action resulted in the destruction of a whole city and the loss of many thousand innocent lives, and caused over 300,000 people to become homeless, while the insurgent Iraqis mostly slipped away, to attack again from elsewhere. We do not trust Hollywood to show the abuses of the US forces, who broke Geneva Conventions and denied civilians hospitals, water, food, opening fire on ambulances and denying the press coverage. We do not believe the military to have been innocent pawns of flawed government, and do not wish Mr Ford to play General Mattis, and we vote against the making of this film. We ask the studios to examine history before they rewrite it. We ask Mr Ford to read up on the truth. "And the truth shall set us free."

_http://petitiononline.com/b7qrlb5/petition.html <http://www.petitiononline.com/b7qrlb5/petition.html>

			2005-08-29 Dahr Jamail New on DVD: Falluja 2004 A film by Japanese independent journalist Toshikuni Doi* Falluja April 2004 A documentary by Japanese independent journalist Toshikuni Doihttp://www.progressiveportal.org/store/ Fallujah has become a symbol of the resistance movement against the U.S. occupation of Iraq. In April 2004, the U.S. forces invaded Fallujah with several thousand soldiers. Why did Fallujah become a base of the resistance against the occupation? How did the U.S. forces attack? Who fought against them? And what damages and injuries did people suffer? Ten days after the siege of Falluja was lifted, Toshikuni Doi, a Japanese independent journalist, went into Fallujah. His documentary investigates the causes of, the conditions during, and damages from the siege. The documentary is primarily in Arabic, with English subtitles. DVD, 55 minutes. Toshikuni Doi is a Japanese journalist who has been covering Iraq since just after the U.S. invasion. ORDER ONLINE AT:http://www.progressiveportal.org/store/ "For a well documented, powerful film of what really occurred in Fallujah during the April, 2004 siege, this is a must see. The film begins by investigating why the resistance began in Fallujah shortly after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. The film then accurately chronicles what occurred in Fallujah during the failed April siege. I couldn't recommend this more highly. To get a more complete understanding of the failed occupation of Iraq, watch this film and encourage others to do the same ./" - Dahr Jamail In addition, here is a petitition against a film being made about Fallujah in Hollywood which I encourage you to sign and distribute far and wide: To: Patricia McQueeney, Mr Ford's agent Harrison Ford has announced that he wishes to play the role of the general in charge of the assault and seige of Fallujah, in an upcoming movie to be entitled No True Glory. This action resulted in the destruction of a whole city and the loss of many thousand innocent lives, and caused over 300,000 people to become homeless, while the insurgent Iraqis mostly slipped away, to attack again from elsewhere. We do not trust Hollywood to show the abuses of the US forces, who broke Geneva Conventions and denied civilians hospitals, water, food, opening fire on ambulances and denying the press coverage. We do not believe the military to have been innocent pawns of flawed government, and do not wish Mr Ford to play General Mattis, and we vote against the making of this film. We ask the studios to examine history before they rewrite it. We ask Mr Ford to read up on the truth. "And the truth shall set us free." _http://petitiononline.com/b7qrlb5/petition.html <http://www.petitiononline.com/b7qrlb5/petition.html>
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