Activists arrested for dropped banner from Opera House

Wednesday, February 5, 2003 - 11:00

SYDNEY — At 8am on January 31, Dean Jefferys and Marlene Obeid scaled the Sydney Opera House to display three huge banners in protest at the Australian government's support for a US attack on Iraq. The banners read: "No war against Iraq, No Australian involvement"; "Listen John, Not In My Name 94%"; and "Iraq = Vietnam". Obeid and Jefferys were arrested by police and charged with "placing a banner on a public building". They will appear in court on February 28.

Photo by Glenn Lockitch/<http://sydney.indymedia.org>.

From Green Left Weekly, February 5, 2003.

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