BY GILLIAN DAVY
MELBOURNE — At a civic ceremony held February 12 in support of East Timorese asylum seekers was attended by 200 people including local government councillors and state parliamentarians, the message was loud and clear: "Let them
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BY PIP HINMAN
The Socialist Alliance has made stopping the war on Iraq and bringing back the troops the centrepiece of our NSW election campaign. The fact that this is a state election doesn't make our focus any less relevant.
Both major parties
BY MARIA VICTORIA VALDES-RODDA
After two months of trying to bring down President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's right-wing opposition on February 2 announced the end to its "general strike". The opposition alliance, the Coordinadora Democratica (CD),
January 22, 2003, marked 30 years since the historic Roe vs Wade decision that gave women in the US access to legal abortions. However, under the presidency of George Bush, that ruling seems increasingly precarious.
In addition to an anti-choice
BY
KATHY NEWNAM
NEWCASTLE — Police estimated that 15,000 people took to the city's
streets on February 15 to oppose a war against Iraq.
Many of those participating commented to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly sellers
that it was the first time they had
BY
TOM FLANAGAN
LISMORE — In what many participants described as the biggest political
event in this town's history, 5000 people — about a ninth of the town's
total population — overflowed Spinks Park to say no to any war on Iraq.
Lisa
But as they say, talk's cheap
"Self evidently America is the most powerful country in the world, probably the most powerful country mankind has seen. But, I mean, [Bush] spends a lot of time talking about humanitarian things, about assistance to
BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG — An anti-war protest on International Women's Day, March 8, could attract numbers similar to or bigger than the 5000-strong February 8 anti-war demonstration.
International Women's Day Collective member and
BY DONNA BURNS
MELBOURNE — Thirty people attended a February 10 public forum in Footscray on the US drive to war against Iraq. The keynote speaker was Iraqi refugee Surma Hamid.
Speaking on behalf of the Committee for the Defence of Iraqi
BY
ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — Kicking off a weekend of massive international protest
against war on Iraq, nearly one in 50 Australians attended an anti-war
protests on February 14-16.
The weekend began with the largest peace demonstration in
BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG — Six of the Illawarra's 19 high schools have been introduced to the No War Mobile as student anti-war activists continue to build the March 5 Books Not Bombs student strike.
The increasingly famous box-trailer, 2.5
BY ROHAN PEARCE
US Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the UN Security Council on February 5 added a new twist to Washington's propaganda offensive against Iraq. While he repeated the threadbare claims that Iraq has somehow hidden a
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