[The following statement was issued on March 27 by the Sydney Books Not Bombs anti-war group.]
The Books Not Bombs student activists, who faced severe police violence in Sydney and Perth yesterday, need your help. They have appealed for support for
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BY BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE — Victorian Peace Network organisers estimate between 35,000 and 40,000 people attended the March 29 protest against war. The rally stretched for more than three city blocks, led by protesters waving Palestinian and
BY ZACK DE LA ROCHA
Without just cause or reason, without legal or moral justification and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security of the United States, the US government has headed to war.
As I am writing this, bombs
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The US rulers have been keen to portray their army's invasion of Iraq as aimed at "liberating" its people from Saddam Hussein's brutal regime. However, US propaganda appears to have had little impact on the Iraqi population.
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NIKKI ULASOWSKI
PERTH Students have been undeterred by the increased police attacks
on anti-war protesters, vowing to demonstrate again on April 4.
There have been many reports of police assaulting students and other
demonstrators in
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
ADELAIDE — The annual WOMAD world music festival in February once again provided a fabulous musical experience within the idyllic garden setting of Botanic Park.
More than 15,000 people attended. It was truly inspiring to see
BY EVA CHENG
Capitalists have been guaranteed new room to expand their interests by the National People's Congress (NPC) — China's parliament — during its annual session in Beijing on March 5-18. The assurances came amid hollow statements by
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ANGELA LUVERA
CANBERRA In the largest peace protest yet in Canberra, 20,000 people
converged on the lawns outside federal parliament on March 23 and 24. Although
most were from Canberra, protesters arrived from 22 cities and towns
As if to prove — yet again — the shallowness and absurdity of the "beauty" industry, the Sydney Morning Herald on March 4 announced that "designer pubic hair is in". The latest Gucci advertising campaign features a woman with her pubes waxed into
Around 35 high-school students, mainly from one high school, met outside a public library in Causarina and went on a vibrant, loud and fast paced march to the only university in Darwin chanting "Howard, Tony, USA — how many kids did you kill
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