Headlines from GLW #723, 5 September 2007:

Anti-APEC protesters: united and peaceful

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 8 September 2007

SEPTEMBER 8 — Alex Bainbridge, chairing the Stop Bush/Make Howard History anti-APEC rally told the gathered crowd that there were 10,000 people gathered at Sydney’s Town Hall. A contingent of hundreds of high school students arrived at Town Hall, chanting “Troops out now!”, while a contingent of hundreds of trade unionists arrived chanting “The workers united will never be defeated!” »

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Videos: Sydney APEC 2007 protest videos

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 8 September 2007

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Photos: Massive march against Bush

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 8 September 2007

Protesters march from Town Hall to Hyde Park in Sydney on September 8. »

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'We are the majority'

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 8 September 2007

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Photos: Bush not welcome!

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 8 September 2007

Thousands of protesters from near and far gathered at Town Hall on September 8 to protest US President George Bush and PM John Howard. »

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Defiant anti-APEC protesters gather

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 8 September 2007

After months of stalling and weeks of harassment, police this morning have escalated their intimidation of anti-APEC protesters. Following on the success of the student strikes against US President George Bush, which took place around Australia on Wednesday September 5, crowds are already gathering in Sydney. The main rally against war criminals Bush and PM John Howard will take place at Sydney’s Town Hall, at 10am. Green Left Weekly's Tony Iltis reports that the police water cannon is already on display, and the gathered activists have had motorcades of riot squad vehicles drive around them, sirens blaring. »

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More than 5000 protesters at anti-APEC rally

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 8 September 2007

Continuing their harassment, police have begun confiscating banner poles from activists at Town Hall and at the various convergence points. Alex Bainbridge, from the Stop Bush Coalition has told the media “We are not in a declared zone, and we do not intend to go anywhere near a declared zone, so by confiscating these poles, the police are actually breaking their own laws.” Under the new laws, police are able to confiscate poles of over one metre, within the “declared zones”. As an example of the politicised role the police a playing in these protests, a small, pro-Bush gathering, which is taking place closer to the “declared zone”, has not had its long banner poles confiscated. »

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Photos: Sydney students walkout against Bush and Howard

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 4 September 2007

Images: Despite a concerted campaign of intimidation by police, hundreds of Sydney students walked out of class in an impassioned protest against Australian Prime Minister John Howard and US President George Bush. [Full report to come.] »

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Video: Sydney students walkout against Bush and Howard

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 4 September 2007

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John Pilger: The ghost of Pinochet haunts the campaign against Hugo Chavez

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 31 August 2007

VENEZUELA: I walked with Roberto Navarrete into the national stadium in Santiago, Chile. With the southern winter’s wind skating down from the Andes, it was empty and ghostly. Little had changed, he said: the chicken wire, the broken seats, the tunnel to the changing rooms from which the screams echoed. We stopped at a large number 28. “This is where I was, facing the scoreboard. This is where I was called to be tortured.” »

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Ireland: Colonial troops unlikely to be missed

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 31 August 2007

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Venezuela: Uniting revolutionaries to end capitalism

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 31 August 2007

VENEZUELA: “The internal situation will intensify over the next months, more contradictions will emerge, simply because we have no plans to hold back the march of the revolution”, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on March 24, speaking to more than 2000 promoters of the new socialist party being constructed in Venezuela. “These contradictions”, he said, would “intensify, because we are dealing with the economic issue, and there is nothing that hurts a capitalist more than his pocket, but we have to enter into this issue, we cannot avoid it”. »

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APEC: road show of the ‘new world order’

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 1 September 2007

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GLW APEC coverage and publication schedule

GENERAL, 1 September 2007

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Labor announces Work Choices Lite

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 1 September 2007

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‘Lock up war criminals, not protesters’

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 1 September 2007

Sydney is to be shut down in the lead-up to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit from September 2. US warmonger-in-chief George Bush will be attending amid an unprecedented amount of money and effort being spent on security. »

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Brian Boyd: ‘Maintain the independent voice of unions’

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 31 August 2007

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