Don't Shoot the Clowns: Taking a Circus to the Children of Iraq

By Jo Wilding

As a human rights observer, Jo Wilding, a young British trainee lawyer and solidarity activist, witnessed and recorded some of the worst atrocities committed against ordinary civilians. As the occupation started, she joined a group of performers to put on circus shows in squatter camps, hospitals, schools and orphanages. Jo Wilding is not a journalist but a new kind of citizen reporter', instinctively recording events and publishing directly online.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904456480
• ISBN13: 9781904456483
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: New Internationalist
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Jo Wilding is the greatest

Jo has more courage than anyone I know- she risked jail to try to break the blockade on Iraq, then brought her "Circus 2 Iraq" with some of her pals. She has plenty of stories to tell about the sanctions and about Fallujah, where she was when the u.s marines tried to destroy it. It's just amazing to read what she writes, and try to remember how those craven embeddeds with the flack jackets kept it all out of tne mainstream media. We needed Jo Wilding then, and we need her now. Because she can tell you the awful reality of the assault on Iraq like no one else. I mean the girl is dragging wounded Iraqis into ambulances in Fallujah, and taking fire from the u.s. marines.