Activists arrested for dropped banner from Opera House

February 5, 2003
Issue 
524
News

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/.

From Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, February 5, 2003.
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