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1. WORLD: Largest coordinated anti-war protest in history

   morning of February 14 with the Fiji Anti-War Movement presenting a floral Valentine's Day protest ... protesters braved icy winds to rally near the United Nations building, filling the streets for 20 blocks. ... people marched or rallied in around 140 cities and towns throughout the US, including 60,000 in Los ...

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   rallies, important as they are. Critically, we need to make arguments and organise within the labour ... invasion has violated — the growing public disquiet about the war can be turned into an irresistible mass ... marched against the war in February to no avail. In the week that half a million folks rallied in ...

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   get involved in the activities that directly affect Murris. Marching in the annual Invasion Day Rally ... Stoyich Fred Nile's cultural attache, or just a latter-day Les Patterson transmogrified into ... Percy was more correct when he referred to the irrationality of present day capitalism because ...

4. Muzzling the Chaser — the politics behind the outrage

   racism and attacks on civil liberties are recurring targets. The Chaser performed at anti-war rallies ... against the US-led invasion of Iraq. Their most famous stunt occurred at the 2007 APEC summit in Sydney. ... hardly new to The Chaser. This is the comedy team who, the day after the September 11, 2001 terrorist ...

5. 'Patching up' the alliance

   a memorial service for his grandfather, who was killed by a US soldier on April 1, 1944, the day that 55,000 ... movement, winning strong local and international support for their struggle. On April 15, the day that Bill ... in Okinawa and on the mainland. On April 16, 100 antiwar landowners attended a 10,000 strong rally in ...

6. John Pilger: How Australia betrayed East Timor

   conquest. The prize, said Evans, was “zillions” of dollars. Members of this gang reappeared the other day in ... Indonesia's secret plans for an invasion. He cabled Canberra that the government should “assist public ... a former senior CIA operations officer in the Jakarta embassy during the invasion of East Timor. He told ...

7. Afghanistan: US spy chief admits war going badly

   House National Secretary Council the day after al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, ... then-war secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice-President Dick Cheney pushed for an invasion of Iraq as the ... "it would be far easier initially to rally the world behind the specific target of al Qaeda". In ...

8. UNITED STATES: America's right turn?

   percentage of people who say they pray every day didn't change either. The media's focus on the ... turned on the Iraq war — voting to authorise Bush's invasion, criticising it during the primaries, ... still would have voted to authorise an invasion, even knowing that there were no weapons of mass ...

9. Write on: letters to the editor

   International Socialist Organisation moved that the slogan for the next rally be "The Senate wont save ... us". They were supported in this by Socialist Alternative and Workers Power. The next day a Melbourne ... have no threat of invasion or imminent revolutionary overthrow of collapse of capitalism, I shall ...

10. PHILIPPINES: Peace Camp opposes Bush's 'second front'

    aims? Peace Camp has undertaken several mass actions, big rallies. In fact, we had one as early as ... The next major project was a three-day peace concert, to which we invited 60 rock bands, the hottest ... zone, in fact, a peace camp, and for three days it was like Woodstock. What was very political about ...

11. UNITED STATES: Elian's rescue a blow to 'Miami Mafia'

    raid in a speech to a previously scheduled rally in Cuba on the evening of the same day. The rally, to ... commemorate the 39th anniversary of the victory over the US-organized Bay of Pigs invasion, was held at the ... expected at the event, but with the day's news the crowd swelled to an estimated size of between ...

12. World-wide protests demand: 'Don't attack Iraq!'

    war". Three hundred rallied in Houston, Texas. A similar number rallied in Orange County, California. In ... Italy, part of a 2000-strong rally was tear-gassed by police; 2000 people protested in Florence. In ... with flowers rallied in Tokyo." Hundreds marched in India and 500 demonstrated in Lahore, ...

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    observers and designated rally marshals. Anyone interested in taking on this role for the day, which is ... Wednesday's rally, and as a pro-active move to support the students who are brave enough to continue to speak ... servicemen who put their lives on the line that day to save a small number of the massacre survivors, and who ...

14. BRITAIN: Blair takes on the firefighters

    the public sector. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) finished an eight-day strike on November 29, which ... followed a two-day strike two weeks earlier. A further eight-day strike, scheduled to begin on December 4, ... summer with dozens of rallies and marches, around the slogan cribbed from an advertising campaign: ...

15. Kellie Tranter: 'Assange and Manning remind us we have a right to know'

    below at a July 16 rally in Sydney organised by the Support Assange and WikiLeaks Coalition. * * * I’d ... I sincerely thank you for coming. How fortuitous that this very day the NSW ALP are debating and developing ... pool resources, to continue to rally, to speak out publicly and online, to educate others, to build ...

16. Pakistan: Musharraf struggles to hold on

    murder. Bhutto was shot as she left an election rally in Rawalpindi, by a gunman who immediately ... afterwards blew himself up. Her killing provoked a general strike that shut the country down for five days ... terror". While Pakistan was used as a platform for the invasion of Afghanistan, the US allowed Musharraf ...

17. Venezuela's revolution accelerates

    billboards carried the slogan that summarised what had occurred on those fateful days: "Every 11 has its ... days, detailing the events surrounding the coup and subsequent uprising. On the streets, everyone was ... remembering what it was that they did during those days. It was impossible to miss the upbeat feeling among ...

18. John Pilger: A world war has begun-- break the silence

    day for twelve years. Bikini is silent today, mutated and contaminated. Palm trees grow in a strange ... headline: "You, too, can have a bikini body." A few days earlier, in the Marshall Islands, I had ... campaign against China. Seldom a day passes when China is not elevated to the status of ...

19. Write on: Letters to the editor

    pillage of an ancient landscape and culture. The invasion is continuing at an annual rate of 100,000 ... migrants, so surely Lisa Macdonald is not advocating a continuation of this brazen invasion by stealth to ... a long time member of the Non Smoker's Movement of Australia, I attended a rally outside Parliament ...

20. After Paris attacks: Less freedom, more war?

    only does this ignore the far greater violence of the West ―the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003, for ... ― the Left Party and the French Communist Party ― called on supporters to attend the rally, but to “keep ... sneaking through more austerity measures. On the day, the politics of the march were mixed. On the one hand ...

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