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1. Ten years since the biggest anti-war protest in history

   14-16, 2003 global protests against the looming US-led invasion of Iraq involved more than 12 million ... protest. Where were you on that day? What political impact did that mobilisation have on you? Were you part ... Macdonald described the scene at the protest: “Many protesters did not march, but stayed in the rally in ...

2. ‘We’ve boundless plains to share’ — for the privileged few

   joining union struggles against attacks on workers. The mass marches on Invasion Day are a step towards ... Immigration detention in Australia In 2011, in the days leading up to January 26, with Australian flags ... days drive into the Western Australian desert. Many things happened during those days, from seeing ...

3. SUDAN: Why Washington won't save Darfur villagers

   its illegal invasion of Iraq. Booker and many other US liberals, as well as influential establishment ... country that cried wolf has lost the moral authority it needs to rally its global neighbours to real ... Washington's failure to launch a "humanitarian" invasion of Sudan — something he still hopes to ...

4. Protesters demand freedom for David Hicks

   during the US invasion of Afghanistan. At the time, the Taliban was the government of Afghanistan. US ... "terrorists and other unlawful enemy combatants". The Canberra rally was addressed by numerous members of ... Allison, Andrew Bartlett and Natasha Stott Despoja. The rally was also addressed by NSW Socialist Alliance ...

5. News Briefs

   rally as part of the April 19 Asia-Pacific day of action for Palestine. Leaders of both the Brisbane ... support for protests against the Israeli invasion. Palestine vigil MELBOURNE — Around 150 people, ... called vigil by Friends of Palestine on April 12. The rally was called in solidarity with the Palestinian ...

6. Week of action launched for Indonesia and East Timor

   severely, during a peaceful demonstration inside the Mahkota Hotel in Dili. The 200-strong rally of students ... government's complicity in the 1975 invasion of East Timor. The Howard government spends more than $3 million ... nights, poster campaigns and �鶹��ý Weekly campaigning stalls. May 24 is an international day of ...

7. Brisbane protests coal seam gas industry: ‘No fracking way’

   Convention Centre on August 17. The rally, which coincided with “People's Day” at the Ekka (the Brisbane ... Exhibition Show Day), was organised by the Stop CSG Brisbane Committee. It indicated the strong public ... Aboriginal representative from the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, told the rally: “There is ...

8. Anti-war activist notebook 2

   Hyde Park at 12.30pm for the Women for Peace rally. “See you there”, I said. “Can't imagine ... flowed back to our jobs, our homes and our day-to-day lives. But we all knew we'd be coming back. ... JODY BETZIEN MELBOURNE — More than 200 people rallied at BP's Melbourne headquarters under the ...

9. Justice for Elijah Doughty

   example of the bloody violence used against Aboriginal people since the invasion of this country 200 years ... ways, Aboriginal peoples and their cultures are under threat every day from political, economic and ... a dominion of the British Empire. Even under the pro-colonial laws of the day, “Terra Nullius” was an illegal ...

10. PALESTINE: Just another brick in the wall

    599 November 17, 1993 Kim Bullimore, West Bank The first day of the Palestinian school year was ... extended as a result of the numerous IDF invasions and re-occupation campaigns against the towns throughout ... Ramallah and other towns and they will not be able to come [to school] because of the wall". Rally ...

11. Labor pays for lousy position on war

    federal Labor leader Simon Crean is doing so badly in the polls. Two polls in as many days indicated most ... Plibersek for the collapse in Labor's support. (The irony is that Plibersek was one of the MPs to rally ... US-British-Australian invasion of Iraq is a popular war. It is not. Not only do the polls show that it was the most ...

12. Write on: Letters to the editor

    Newcastle Occupation obsession On May 8, students at the Uni of Qld rallied as part of the national day of ... failure of its monstrous invasion of Indo-China. Graham Haig New Town Tasmania Free enterprise Brian ... Aborigines is more blatant migrant bashing. While the original invasion of Australia was carried out by ...

13. 40 years after Vietnam, youth lead the way

    anniversary of the US invasion. Eighty-four university and high-school student anti-war groups supported the ... call. The day of action was also endorsed by World Can't Wait, a youth-based organisation also ... ended several days of action against the war in which thousands of high-school and university students ...

14. Racist cartoon reveals denial problem

    Anti-racism Indigenous Media Carlo Sands Racism tent embassy Canberra genocide The day after the ... be bloody well here celebrating Australia Day…!” It is one of life's truisms: jokes about ... tract Mein Kempf. Aboriginal people failed to stop an invasion that resulted in the extermination of ...

15. Bolivia: No longer victims and slaves

    Manfred Reyes Villa, for Evo to resign. However, by the day of the rally it became more of an occasion to ... opposition would have loved the day to be violent. The people who attended the rally have demonstrated that ... wing spoke of a campesino "invasion". The opposition attempts to divide the country with talk ...

16. Stop the war: Israel out of Lebanon and Gaza!

    try to win domestic support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Howard ... not for the last-minute change of assembly point, and railway track work, the rally would have been ... much bigger. In London on the same day, 30,000 people protested. Across Australia, protests have been ...

17. End the lies: Howard must go!

    invasion of Iraq "on the basis of false assumptions and the deception of the Australian people". ... next day: "I accept and I always have, a sizeable chunk of the Australian population disagreed ... subsequently verified by UN weapons inspectors in 1995-98, and again in the lead-up to the US-led invasion of ...

18. Crean attempts to squash Bush protest

    Bush would have sent a strong message that they disagree with Bush's criminal invasion and ... occupation of Iraq. This would have helped build the October 23 mass rally outside Parliament House, which ... will begin at 9 am, one hour before Bush is due to address the parliament. The rally, which is being ...

19. For a world without war

    535 April 23, 2003 On May 1, the day of international workers' solidarity, anti-corporate ... meeting to plan a new government. Behind the official propaganda the truth is that the US invasion of Iraq ... — fully privatised, foreign owned with no barriers to corporate exploitation. May Day will be a day when ...

20. What the media ignores: John McCain's militarism and misogyny

    getting in the last few couple of days now, several days, really, in the lead-up to Senator McCain’s ... taken away from the past couple of days, just watching some of the media coverage, which is less ... illegal and catastrophic invasion and occupation of Iraq—never apologized, never showed any regret for ...

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