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Inside the Red Zone - A Veteran For Peace Reports from Iraq (Hardcover)
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Inside the Red Zone - A Veteran For Peace Reports from Iraq (Hardcover)
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Mike Ferner, a peace activist and journalist from Ohio, traveled to
Baghdad twice, once just before the U.S. invasion in March 2003 and
once again a year later. In this book, he profiles Cliff Kindy of
the Christian Peacemaker Teams; Kathy Kelly of Voices in the
Wilderness; and other peace activists, soldiers, journalists, and
ordinary Iraqis he met during his two extended visits to what
became known as the Red Zone, the area outside the protected Green
Zone enclave. He provides a rare inside look into the daily life of
Iraqis before and after the war as well as a collective profile of
segments of the contemporary American peace movement that have thus
far been hidden from public view. These stories have been gathered
on the dusty streets of Baghdad and from tiny farming villages in
the Sunni Triangle. They were not collected from the lobby of a
five-star hotel, nor from behind the tinted windows of an armored
SUV. We meet activists who are unarmed, trained civilians who put
their bodies in between rival factions to promote peace, sitting in
front of tanks and bulldozers and fasting in the desert on the
Iraq-Kuwait border shortly before 130,000 U.S. troops invaded in
2003. We also are given an unvarnished view of everyday people in
Iraq—cab drivers, an unemployed engineer, a newspaper editor,
farmers in a rural village—all living their lives as normally as
possible in the cauldron their country has become. The humanity of
the people in these stories will resonate with people of all
political persuasions because they go beyond the portrayal of
Iraqis we're used to seeing in the news—as casualties, victims,
grieving parents, and shell-shocked children. Instead, when Ferner
gave presentations upon his return from Iraq, the comment he most
often heard was, These people are just like us. They're just like
people we know.
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