Resistance in action

Students form anti-war group

CANBERRA — Following a student walkout on October 19, a dozen students from Narrabundah College have formed a new anti-war student group called Students Protesting Against Needless Killing, SPANK.

The group immediately set down the date for another student walkout, November 8, two days before the federal election, and has organised three anti-war forums on Narrabundah College, Dickson College and Canberra Grammar School in the next week.

Resistance gets NUS spot

NEWCASTLE — Resistance activist Peter Robson, standing on a "No War, No Racism" ticket, was elected as a Newcastle University delegate to the National Union of Students, in elections which finished on October 25.

Also elected were three delegates from the Labor-left affiliated "Voice" ticket and Renee Williamson, an indigenous activist and co-president of the Student Association.

Students burn army leaflets

NEWCASTLE — Forty high school students from five schools around Newcastle burnt army recruitment material during an October 25 walkout in protest at the war.

Students targeted Labor Party campaign headquarters, Liberal Senator John Tierney's office and the Defence Force Recruiting Centre, where protesters left chalk outlines to remember those who have died in the conflict.

The high school walkout was called by Resistance in protest at Australia's 1500 troop commitment to the war in Afghanistan.

From GLW issue 469