These photographs of the October 20, 1966, protest against US President Lyndon Johnson were taken by Perry Brown, who is now a member of the Democratic Socialist Party and the Socialist Alliance in Newcastle. He described the scene to Green Left Weekly: "The cops lost their cool... I recall the expression on the face of one police officer as he dragged one woman away from the road by her hair. He was totally out of control, I had never seen anything like it before. That image is still in my mind. The more things change, the more they stay the same. There was a sense of commitment in that crowd in 1966, similar to the mood I have noticed at recent refugees' rights rallies." Brown will be joining the anti-Bush protest in Sydney on October 22.
From Green Left Weekly, October 22, 2003.
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