BY
PETER BOYLE
One of the most enthusiastic peace monitors at the April 2 Books
Not Bombs protest in Sydney was Doris Owens, 65. Owens was one of 11 people
charged with treason for urging young people not to register for the
military
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BY
KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA More than 100 people attended an anti-war teach-in on
April 5, organised by the ACT Network Opposing War. Most participants,
including students and academics, had attended anti-war protests in Canberra
and the
BY
EMMA CLANCY
SYDNEY The copious numbers of corporate journalists present at
the April 2 student anti-war rally may have spent four to five hours dashing
from one end of Town Hall to another in search of a violent spectacle,
but, unlike
BY JESS MELVIN
MELBOURNE — On April 3, a student from the prestigious Melbourne High School received a detention. His crime was mentioning the war in class and questioning his principal.
"I don't think it is appropriate for the school to be
Green Left
Weeklys ANDREW MARTIN spoke to protesters about why they were there.
Were here for the Iraqi people, to stop the war and to protest
against John Howard. He represents war, hate and anger. All he wants to
do is fight.
The
When Iraqi TV offices in Baghdad were hit by a US missile strike on March 25, the targeting of the media was strongly criticised by human rights groups. However, much of the US corporate media cheered.
General-secretary of the International
Which of the greedy vultureswill be first to snatch the carcass?There's little hope they'llshare the spoils of war.Will Australia get its dollars worthof reconstruction contracts?Will Cheney get the oilit's all been for?
Johnnie can use our taxesno
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The British Guardian reported on April 1 that the US government is in the process of creating its own team of "weapons inspectors" to "disarm" Iraq's alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). According to the Guardian's
Thanks to a compliant media, with reporters embedded in units of the US and British military forces invading Iraq, we are all being spared the sight and sound of things that would almost certainly turn us wild with anger and grief.
There were no
BY NORM DIXON
One of the first US soldiers killed in the invasion of Iraq was marine Kendall Waters-Bey. In his working-class Baltimore neighbourhood, there is anger, pain and sorrow.
His four sisters have been openly critical of US President
BY DALE
MILLS
SYDNEY A group of volunteer solicitors, barristers and law students
set up to monitor police behaviour at demonstrations have expressed serious
concern at the refusal by police to allow the April 2 student anti-war
protest,
SYDNEY — The Books not Bombs coalition issued a call for solidarity with the April 2 student anti-war protest, following the police provocation that occurred on March 26.
Among those who expressed solidarity were the Victorian Peace Network,
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