BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY Women and children will the ones who will suffer the most
if the war on Iraq goes ahead, said peace activist Win Childs. Along with
Dr Gillian Deakin and actor Genevieve Lemon, Win Childs is organising the
February
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NORM DIXON
People throughout the world have thronged to anti-war demonstrations
on February 14-16 in numbers that even protest organisers thought unimaginable.
As Green Left Weekly went to press, it appears, based on conservative
BY ROHAN PEARCE
US Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the UN Security Council on February 5 added a new twist to Washington's propaganda offensive against Iraq. While he repeated the threadbare claims that Iraq has somehow hidden a
BY PIP HINMAN
Lesley McCulloch was freed from prison in Aceh on February 9. McCulloch, along with US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler, was arrested at a military check-point and held for five months. McCulloch was charged with violating her visa.
McCulloch,
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You are G8, We are 6 BillionBy Jonathon NealeVision Paperbacks, 2002262 pages, $27.95
In the last year, books by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and Tariq Ali have been prominent in the bestsellers lists. You can
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
PERTH — More than 20,000 people crammed in Forest Place in the CBD on February 15 for an anti-war rally organised by the NOWaR Alliance.
Contingents from Fremantle and Midland arrived on "peace trains". From Fremantle, three
BY
LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY In one of the most amazing displays of political passion
in Sydneys history, up to 500,000 rallied on February 16 against war in
Iraq. Many protesters did not march, but stayed in the rally in Hyde Park
because
BY
PATRICK BOND
Africa didn't really shine here, South Africa's finance minister
Trevor Manuel told a press conference in snowy Davos, Switzerland during
the World Economic Forum in late January. There is a complete dearth of
panels on
On top of the hundreds of thousands mobilising in Australia's main cities, many thousands rallied in cities and towns across Australia.
From Cairns, Susan Austin reports that 2000 people gathered for a peace picnic. A 500-strong contingent
BY GILLIAN DAVY
MELBOURNE — At a civic ceremony held February 12 in support of East Timorese asylum seekers was attended by 200 people including local government councillors and state parliamentarians, the message was loud and clear: "Let them
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