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'Stop killing the people of Iraq'

BY BEN COURTICE MELBOURNE — Victorian Peace Network organisers estimate between 35,000 and 40,000 people attended the March 29 protest against war. The rally stretched for more than three city blocks, led by protesters waving Palestinian and

Iraqi people resist invaders

BY ROHAN PEARCE The US rulers have been keen to portray their army's invasion of Iraq as aimed at "liberating" its people from Saddam Hussein's brutal regime. However, US propaganda appears to have had little impact on the Iraqi population. A

The hypocrisy of a 'war of liberation'

BY SARAH STEPHEN The war against Iraq, the US government and its allies say, is being waged for a just and moral cause — to free the Iraqi people from a despotic and brutal dictator, to allow the people of Iraq to build a free and democratic

Celebrities slam war

Chrissie Hynde: "Let's get rid of the economic screwing this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!" — at a March 1 Pretenders concert in San Francisco. Danny Glover: "A nation that continues, year after year, to spend more

Alternative news sources on the Iraq war

Al Ahram weekly newspaper from Egypt features regular articles from Edward Said — <http://weekly.ahram.org.eg> Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based TV station — <http://english.aljazeera.net> Al Jazeera (not the TV station) —

Hunger striker in Burnie

BY KAMALA EMANUEL BURNIE — Matt Hardy began a week-long hunger strike on March 26, to protest the war, and call for Australian troops to be brought home. Hardy say's he's on hunger strike because it's a way to protest that's "in people's faces".

Revolutionary music from Mexico

BY MELANIE SJOBERG ADELAIDE — The annual WOMAD world music festival in February once again provided a fabulous musical experience within the idyllic garden setting of Botanic Park. More than 15,000 people attended. It was truly inspiring to see

20,000 converge on Canberra to demand peace

BY ANGELA LUVERA CANBERRA — In the largest peace protest yet in Canberra, 20,000 people converged on the lawns outside federal parliament on March 23 and 24. Although most were from Canberra, protesters arrived from 22 cities and towns

Anti-war celebs crash Hollywood's party

BY ALISON DELLIT I'm sure mine wasn't the only household in Australia to grin and whoop as Michael Moore, maker of Bowling For Columbine, cut neatly through the bullshit at the 2003 Oscars to deliver a passionate anti-war speech. Ignoring

IRAQ: Washington, London squabble over spoils of war

BY DOUG LORIMER As the US-British-Australian military invaders struggle to crush the resistance of the Iraqi people, a behind-the-scenes diplomatic battle has begun between Washington and London over the anticipated spoils of war. "We didn't take

Teachers union slams Beattie over strike ban

BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Queensland Teachers Union president Julie-Ann McCullough has slammed Labor Premier Peter Beattie's government after the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC) ordered the QTU to end its campaign of rolling

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