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
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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
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
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
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,
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,
BY NICK
EVERETT
SYDNEY Around 150 people attended the Peoples Assembly for Peace
conference at the Haymarket campus of University of Technology, Sydney
on March 30.
The conference, organised by the Walk Against the War Coalition,
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — The March 26 meeting of the Workers Against the War group voted to condemn the violence of the NSW police against student anti-war protesters in Sydney and offered to provide support in the form of marshals to students
BY
TAMARA PEARSON
In Pakistan, student activists are beaten and intimidated by the
Islamic fundamentalists; in Zimbabwe, police attend student meetings and
political activity on most campuses and colleges is prohibited; and in
India, blind
BY APRIL HURLEY
BAGHDAD, March 24 — At the al Kindi Hospital emergency department, Fatima Abdullah is screaming in outrage: "Why do you do this to us?". Her eight-year-old, Fatehah is dead, two other daughters are on stretchers, wounded by a
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