ANZ picketed

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MELBOURNE — Up to 100 people picketed the Swanston Street branch of ANZ on May 12 to protest the bank's role in the corporate plunder of Iraq. The picket was organised by the Melbourne Stop the War Coalition. 'ANZ has a $6 million stake in a consortium led by US bank JP Morgan Chase called the Iraq Trade Bank', explained Stop the War's Margarita Windisch, 'which uses stolen oil credits to lend money to foreign companies to buy stolen resources. This is only possible because of the brutal occupation that has already cost the lives of more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians'. Protesters called for ANZ and the occupation forces to leave Iraq immediately.

Photo by Peter Cahill

From Green Left Weekly, May 25, 2005.
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