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A Groundbreaking Mission for a Peaceful Future
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An Interactive Forum to Build Relationships between the
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A screening tour of the documentary film THE ROAD TO FALLUJAH and A live videoconference between university students in America and Iraq Our Mission The tour will launch in the first months of 2010, debuting at Harvard University and moving on to 10 major universities across the United States. Each eventwill include a screening of the The Road to Fallujah, a documentary film that is designed to encourage an informed and compassionate dialogue, followed by a live video conference with Iraqi students at Baghdad University that will be broadcast to an international audience via our website. To foster the development and growth of the student relationships, we will provide a private video chat room on the Global Access Media website where the students can expand and build their relationships in a monitored and structured environment. The Global Access Media team - an international crew of human rights and humanitarian aid workers, journalists, diplomats, and conflict resolution specialists - will be available for guidance and consultation as the students grow their relationships and develop their own joint organizations and projects for peace.
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The TOUR
The Iraq Peace & Reconciliation College Tour will launch in the first months of 2010, debuting at Harvard University and moving on to 10 major universities across the nation. Each college town will have a minimum of 2 screening events on separate days, one at the university itself, and one at a public venue for the surrounding community. Through this live videoconferencing, the tour will be the launch of an ongoing and open line of communication, facilitated by Global Access Media, between the American and the Iraqi people. Each screening event will be accompanied by a live web chat forum and will be podcast and webcast to an international audience. Global Access Media will set up a dedicated webpage where Iraqis and Americans can continue their dialogue, grow their relationships, invite otehrs to join this emerging intercultural community forum, and create their own opportunities to work together for peace. EDUCATIONAL FUNDRAISING Working directly with education officials in Iraq, Global Access Media will establish and facilitate a fundraising campaign that will run concurrently with the tour to help rebuild the Iraq educational system. Other than minor banking fees, 100% of all funds raised will go directly to the Iraqi people for the benefit of their educational system. More information will be available on the Global Access Media site as this campaign develops. (Money donated on the Global Access Media site will NOT go to this educational fundraising campaign. All donations on this site go directly to the costs of the development and production of The Iraq Peace & Reconciliation College Tour) |
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The FILM
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BE A PART OF PEACE IN ACTION! YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE IRAQ PEACE & RECONCILIATION TOUR IS TAX-DEDUCTIBLE The Iraq Peace and Reconciliation Tour is sponsored and produced by Global Access Media, a non-profit media company dedicated to connecting humanity through socially conscious media. Global Access operates in affiliation with International Humanities Center (IHC), a non-profit public charity exempt from federal income tax under Section 501[c](3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All contributions to tour funding are tax-deductible through IHC.
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The Iraq Peace & Reconciliation Tour • copyright © 2009 Global Access Media
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In January 2005, following the battle, American filmmaker Mark Manning joined forces with Iraqi human rights worker Rana Al-Aiouby, and became the only un-embedded western civilian to live with the people of Fallujah and document their stories. Manning and Al-Aiouby were the only outside civilians to gain access inside this forbidden city, which to this day remains under controlled acess to outsiders and the international press.
A joint production between American and Iraqi filmmakers, The Road to Fallujah includes interviews with Iraqi civilians, refugees, resistance fighters, members of the American Military and Congress, media analysts, Islamic scholars, and world leaders of peace, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Thich Nhat Hanh.