An Invitation
Hello all,
Sorry for the lack of blogging recently. To make up for it, here's an invitation to a party.
Well, not quite. But I've been made aware of it, and have been told to make "you" aware. So here goes:
Humanitarian Intervention post-Iraq, Monday 30th April.
Jubilee Room, Westminster Hall, Houses of Parliament, London.
A Euston Manifesto Forum
On Monday 30th April, a panel of leading Ministers, MPs, and thinkers will come together to discuss the future of humanitarian intervention, after the conflict in Iraq.
As a Euston Manifesto signatory blog, we would like to give your readership the opportunity to ask questions directly to the panel. We would really appreciate you and your readers' contributions to this important debate, and would be grateful to you if you could raise awareness of the event, which we hope will raise nationally and internationally the importance of humanitarian intervention.
The speakers include: -
Rt. Hon. Hilary Benn MP, Minister for International Development and a candidate for the Labour party deputy leadership.
Prof. Brian Brivati, Professor of Contemporary History and Human Rights at Kingston University.
Nick Cohen, journalist for the Observer and New Statesman, and author of 'What's Left? How Liberals lost their way'.
Gary Kent, Director of Labour Friends of Iraq.
Pat McFadden MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Cabinet Office
Karen Pollock, Chief Executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust (tbc.)
In a first of its kind, the forum will be broadcast on Youtube and, hopefully, simultaneously these clips will be placed on blogs sympathetic to the Euston Manifesto across the internet, globally.
Please ask your readership to submit questions to the panel, once you have a list of questions (perhaps from the comment boxes of your blogs) forward them to: euston.manifesto@googlemail.com . Note: this email address shouldn't be placed directly on your blog due to the volume of responses it will (hopefully!) generate.
We would also be grateful if you could embed the Youtube clips we will be producing directly on your blog, if you'd like to do this, please email euston.manifesto@googlemail.com and the embedding code will be sent to you the moment the clips are online.
The greater the number of blogs who distribute these Youtube videos, the greater the audience, and in the period before the Euston Manifesto Conference on May 30 th, it is an excellent time to raise the profile of both the Manifesto and its values.
Kindest regards,
Michael Harris
Parliamentary Assistant and Researcher to Louise Ellman MP
Professor Alan Johnson
Editor, Democratiya
My gut feeling is that humanitarian intervention post-Iraq is up shit creek without a paddle, but I'll wait til I've seen these Youtube clips. And Nick Cohen is always good value for money.
Cory
