The People's Tribunal on the Iraq War was the first grassroots tribunal to be streamed live online on December 1 & 2, 2016 from Washington D.C. It was also the first tribunal in which people could testify remotely from anywhere in the world, through pre-recorded video or live through Skype. After 14 years of costly war based on lies, the project formed to uplift truth, accountability, and to offer a space for healing for the peace movement. The People's Tribunal on the Iraq War is an effort to unify the global anti-war/peace movements with other justice movements by uplifting testimonies of the costs of this war—and war itself. The Tribunal brings the lies that created the war on Iraq into public awareness, and at the time, demanded Obama act on them. It is a tool that was created to inspire the anti-war movement before the inauguration of the administration in 2017. It is an educational tool that all groups can use to build, inspire, and empower their organizations and communities to advocate for peace, an end to war, & demilitarization.
Day 1 Testifiers
Intro by Jodie Evans, 00:00:35
Press Conference, 00:06:49
Luis Roberto Zamora Bolaños, live, 00:06:49
Ray McGovern, live, 00:19:20
Raed Jarrar, live, 00:27:00
David Swanson, live, 00:35:00
Barbara Lee, video & message read by Ciara Taylor, 00:41:00
Dennis Kucinich, read by Martha Neuman, 00:46:00
Kathy Kelly, video, 00:50:00
Terry Rockefeller, video, 00:56:00
Vijay Prashad, video, 1:02:00
Medea Benjamin, live, 1:11:00
John Cavanaugh, live, 1:18:00
John Kiriakou, live, 1:26:00
Philip Giraldi, live, 1:39:00
Elizabeth Murray, read by Paula Kahn, 1:44:00
Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Skype, 1:48:00
Sara Browning, live, 1:54:00
Dirk Adriaensens, video, 2:00:00
Janet Gerson, live, 2:06:00
Joshua Weiner, live, 2:14:00
Dan Ellsberg, video, 2:21:00
Ann Wright, video, 2:28:00
Raed Jarrar hosts at 2:31:00
Omar Ziada, video, 2:33:00
Faruq Ziada,video, 2:42:00
Maha Al-Nuaimy, video 2:47:00
Chris Hedges, video, 2:53:00
Danny Glover, audio recording, 3:04:00
Liz Holtzman, video, 3:09:00
Rebecca Gordon, video, 3:16:00
Inder Comar, video, 3:28:00
Jeremy Corbyn, video, 3:37:00
Vincent Warren, video, 3:44:00
Anthony Arnove, hosting, 3:54:00
Birgitta Jónsdóttir, video, 3:55:00
Collateral Damage, video, 4:03:00
Anthony Arnove, live, 4:07:00
Janine Jackson, video, 4:15:00
Sonali Kolhatkar, video, 4:21:00
Robert Greenwald, video, 4:29:00
Jeff Cohen, video, 4:33:00
Andrew Bacevich, Skype, 4:39:00
Noam Chomsky, read by Anthony Arnove, 4:44:00
Viggo Mortensenn, video, 4:51:00
Juan Cole, read by Anthony Arnove/Jodie, 4:56:00
Medea Benjamin hosts at 4:56:00
Leslie Cagan, video, 4:58:00
Matthew De Vlieger, video, 5:05:00
Ed Begley Jr., video, 5:09:00
We are Many Trailer 5:14:00
Lindsey German, video, 5:17:00
5:23 Amir Amirani (click here to view full testimony)
Mairead Maguire, video, 5:24:00
5:32-5:37 = technical difficulties
Joe Moore, video, 5:38:00
Philip Weiss, video, 5:41:00
Andy Shallal, live, 5:48:00
Ben Cohen, video, 6:00:00
Charles Eisenstein,video, 6:04:00
Day 2 Testifiers
Intro Ciara Taylor
Nadje Al-Ali, video, 00:00:50
Abigail Ruane, video, 00:05:00
Maria Santelli, video, 00:10:00
Ciara speaks at 00:18:00
Ann Wright, hosts, 00:20:00
Camilo Mejia, video, 00:24:00
Matthew Hoh, video, 00:30:00
Julio Torres, live, 00:37:48 min
IVAW winter soldier 46:27
Barbara Wein, live, 00:48:00
Stacy Bannerman, live, 00:57:28
Kevin & Joyce Lucey, live, 1:09:15
Gilda Carbonaro,video, 1:24:34
Dr. Helen Caldicott, video, 1:32:14
Miriam Pemberton, video, 1:39:20
Dana Visalli, video, 1:44:40
Barbara Koeppel, live, 1:50:28
Bill McKibben, video, 2:02:33
Paula Graciela Kahn hosts 2:09:35
Kevin Zeese, live, 2:10:04
Nicholas Davies, video, 2:16:20
Peter Van Buren, video, 2:24:40
Karen Dolan, video, 2:30:43
Pratap Chatterjee, video, 2:34:30
Phyllis Bennis, live, 2:39:52
Thomas Fasy, live, 2:48:00
Jonathan Hutto, live, 2:55:16
Noor Al-Samarrai, video, 3:01:16
3:07:36 Press Conference
Darakshan Raja, live, 3:07:37
Rama Kudaimi, live, 3:16:28
Paula Kahn, live, 3:24:28
Rachel Gilmer, live, 3:30:49
Reece Chenault, live, 3:40:35
Esther Iverem, live, 3:50:40
Hans Von Sponeck, video, 3:57:27
Joe Jondreau, live, 4:03:16
Jonathan Hutto hosts 4:09:35
Sam Koplinka-Loehr, live, 4:10:35
Glen Ford, live, 4:15:48
Eddie Glaude, video, 4:22:38
Michael Sampson, live, 4:39:34
Sammy Almashat, live, 4:39:05
Thea Paneth, video, 4:48:45
Sarms Jabra, video, 4:55:43
5:01:27 Darakshan Raja hosts
Eve Ensler, Skype, 5:01:28
Angela Peoples, live, 5:08:03
Jaya Priya Reinhalter, live, 5:16:21
Reverend Lennox Yearwood, video, 5:24:45
Chase Iron Eyes, delivered by Jodie Evans, 5:35:37
5:32:00 Closing Statements
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