The Bombing of Sadr City

On CAN TV Chicago cable tv Channel 19:
Thurs., Oct. 1, 9:30 pm
Fri., Oct. 2, 4:30 pm
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Fri., Oct. 9, 4:30 pm

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Mon., Oct. 12, 5:30 pm
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Mon., Oct. 19, 5:30 pm
Wed. Oct. 21, 9:00 pm
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Very few US television viewers have seen the kind of footage as presented in the "Bombing of Sadr City", which has been edited down to fit our Labor Beat time slot. This is, in fact, the US tv premiere of this video. It records the events in May, 2008 in Sadr City, Iraq as US shells strike civilian areas. Sana TV, an Iraqi tv organization, shot this footage during the attack, and during the dramatic arrival and treatment of the attack's victims at a local hospital. There is no corporate network commentator filtering the images from us in a studio thousands of miles away, telling us what to think; we learn what the people themselves think as they are caught in the midst of the attack. The second half of the show is a press conference (again, edited down to fit Labor Beat's time slot) by Iraq Freedom Congress <http://www.ifcongress.com/English/>, which produces Sana TV. The IFC is a pro-union, pro-women's, pro-students' rights organization in Iraq which is not part of any religious current, but instead calls for a secular Iraqi society. The IFC calls for the immediate exit of the US troops by means of a political struggle. English subtitles.

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