[Imc-lwg-general] Funding for factfinding mission to Iraq

[Sam King]

Adam Phillips
190 Elm Grove,
Brighton,
BN2 3DA.

Friday, 06 December 2002

To whom it may concern.

We are two students studying Dance and visual art and International 
Relations at Brighton and Sussex Universities respectively. Our third 
member is a Moroccan national currently working as a carer. He is fluent 
in Arabic.

We are all human beings unable to ignore the suffering of the Iraqi 
people and plan to spend a month in Iraq from the 15th December with 
pen, paper and video cameras to document the voices of the Iraqi people 
from all different parts of their society. We plan to visits schools, 
hospitals, universities and homes and meet people from different social 
and political organisations such as the Friendship, Solidarity and 
Peace Organisation, based in Baghdad.

Over past months we have been working on a piece entitled Seeing 
through the blindfold. We have been seeking to bring into light the 
manipulation and concealment of the truth by the worlds media, 
regarding the so called War on Terrorism in the Middle East. Upon 
returning from Iraq we shall be devising and performing further with a 
newly formed theatre laboratory in Brighton. We intend to publicise our 
experience as widely as possible in schools, universities, to anybody 
and everybody. We have close links with Che-Leila at Sussex University 
who we shall be communicating with throughout our time in Iraq.


We are writing to you to ask for any financial contributions you are 
able to help with, for without your support this trip may not be possible.

Yours in serenity.

Louisa Maynard
Tachefine Boujellal
Adam Phillips