BY
PIP HINMAN
As the US-led war on Iraq began in earnest on March 20, the mass
outpouring of anger across the world surprised even some seasoned campaigners.
In Australia, around 90,000 people took their protest to the streets in
all the
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BY
MICHAEL DE WALL
SYDNEY Just two days before Prime Minister John Howard officially
backed the US ultimatum to Saddam Hussein, residents of western Sydney
were among thousands of hopeful protesters gathering at anti-war rallies
on March
BY ALISON DELLIT
Protesters in many cities reacted to the events of March 18 — the announcement by PM John Howard that Australian troops had been committed to a war against Iraq, and US President George Bush's designed-to-fail ultimatum to Saddam
Two thousand people gathered in Garema Place at lunch time for the second major emergency protest against the war on Iraq. Many workers took early lunch breaks to reach the protest, and students left schools and universities to attend.
Many
BY GILLIAN DAVY
MELBOURNE — Applications for refugee status by some 1700 East Timorese people, who have been living in Australia for up to a decade, are being systematically rejected by the Refugee Review Tribunal. Unless the federal government
BY MATT EGAN
In Lismore, with two hours notice, five hundred people rallied against the attack on Baghdad on March 20. Sister Margaret Mazzer began the event by singing a prayer for peace.
Rally chairperson Tom Flanagan observed that if the
BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO — Sizeable demonstrations against the US attack on Iraq were held in cities across Canada on March 20. At least 5000 people in Toronto faced off with riot cops, mounted police and attack dogs. More than 400 took to the
RAFAH, Gaza
Strip On March 16, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old US volunteer with the
International Solidarity Movement (ISM), was murdered by the Israeli occupation
army.
Wearing a fluorescent orange jacket, Corrie was standing in the path
BY LEIGH HUGHES
ADELAIDE — The first strike in the US-led war on Iraq was the catalyst for the abandonment of classrooms and the closure of several schools across Adelaide on March 20, as hundreds of students walked out in protest.
Students
BY
NATASHA IZATT
& NORM DIXON
LONDON Protest action swept Britain on March 20, in response to
the launch of the US-British war of conquest against Iraq. Tens of thousands
of school students spearheaded the militant demonstrations,
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — On the eve of the March 22 NSW election, both Labor Premier Bob Carr and Liberal Party leader John Brogden pleaded with voters not to make the war on Iraq a state election issue.
However, the rapid growth of the
BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG — On March 20, 250 local high school, TAFE and university students joined an emergency student walkout in response to the beginning of the war on Iraq. The walkout was called by Wollongong Books not Bombs just two days
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