BY APRIL HURLEY
BAGHDAD, March 24 — At the al Kindi Hospital emergency department, Fatima Abdullah is screaming in outrage: "Why do you do this to us?". Her eight-year-old, Fatehah is dead, two other daughters are on stretchers, wounded by a
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BY KATHERINE BRADSTREET
SYDNEY On April 2, around 1200 anti-war students and their supporters
defied the NSW police by gathering in Sydneys Town Hall Square to oppose
the war on Iraq and reaffirm their right to protest.
Despite a
BY RAHUL MAHAJAN
Iraq's desperate humanitarian situation has suddenly become a retroactive justification for the war, even for the attacking of civilian targets. The need to get aid into Basra prompted a British military spokesperson on March 25 to
BY PETER BOYLE
SYDNEY — The April 2 Books Not Bombs student anti-war protest in Sydney is the latest of several peaceful political demonstrations to be declared "unlawful" in the last six months by the NSW Labor government, led by Premier Bob
BY RUSSELL PICKERING
PERTH Despite a hysterical campaign by the Western Australian media
and police opposing the right of young people to protest against the Iraq
war, a 400-strong anti-war rally was held by Youth and Students Against
the
BY
PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY A concerted campaign by the NSW Labor Council has not yet
succeeded in splitting the peace movement in Sydney. The campaign, which
was applauded by the pro-war Murdoch press, shifted into high gear in the
lead-up to
MANILA — "War against poverty, not war against Iraq and Mindanao!" chanted 12,000 workers — members of the workers' party, Partido ng Manggagawa, and the socialist labour group, Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP) — as they marched down
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Weeklys ANDREW MARTIN spoke to protesters about why they were there.
Were here for the Iraqi people, to stop the war and to protest
against John Howard. He represents war, hate and anger. All he wants to
do is fight.
The
BY LEIGH HUGHES
ADELAIDE Everywhere you go, there are indications that young people
oppose this war on Iraq. Anti-war badges pinned to school uniforms, discussions
about Iraq on the 3.30pm buses, huge Books Not Bombs meetings and massive
This open letter to Bob Carr was issued by Books Not Bombs on April 2.
You call us violent demonstrators but we are for peace.
We want the bloody, unjust and illegal war in Iraq to stop.
We want the bombing to stop.
We want the troops to be
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