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1. Write On: Letters to �鶹��ý Weekly

   at the anti-war rallies — but hopefully we can correct that by making May Day a real expression of ... satisfied with a rally in Sydney Town Hall Square was an example of excellent decision-making by the Books ... meeting calling for the cancellation of the rally, the statements made by John Robertson condemning the ...

2. Media largely ignores Israeli crimes

   Ben-Ari also spoke at a rally at Haifa University on November 15 where about 1300 Israeli students danced ... fire and shelling from battleships, along with the threat of a ground invasion, was of only minor ... here when the [23-day] 2008-09 war took place, and I think this one is more difficult in [terms of] ...

3. Venezuela's revolution for humanity

   the world might one day belong to those who work on it into a reality. "Bread, land and ... all Bolivarian militants organise a rally like the one that put Chavez back in power [after ... Cienfuegos. That's why the rallying cry is "Yes to the socialist revolution". We in Cuba were ...

4. Colombia: Uribe mobilises for war

   newspaper outlets in Colombia provided free advertising in the days leading up to the rally. The Colombian ... combat. On the day of the so-called peace rally, Uribe called for the complete eradication of the FARC ... British-based Colombia Solidarity Campaign (CSC) released the day before argued, despite the portrayal of these ...

5. Beastie Boys Adam Yauch — maker of music that broke the rules

   shock of the group's emergence in 1987: “In those days, hip-hop was truly from the streets, and ... part of the group, but was particularly prevalent in the days of Licensed to Ill, their first ... that noted for its opposition to the US invasion of Afghanistan. The group released "In a World ...

6. Why Israel won't survive

   did as the pretext for the US-led invasion of Iraq. Israel's real goals were to destroy any ... united and fought heroically for 23 days. According to well-informed and credible sources, Israel did ... resistance factions in Gaza; its brutality rallied all Palestinians and Arabs. Millions of people across the ...

7. Latin America rebellion inspires

   organiser of the AVSN 2006 May Day trade union brigade to Venezuela, emphasised the need for direct links ... rallying call on Middle Eastern streets: the Venezuelan president has inspired millions and "educated ... never have survived the terrible days of the "special period" after the collapse of the Soviet ...

8. The importance of stopping Bush: The power of young people

   scene. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 sparked rapidly organised mass rallies against the US and Australian ... every day, with the world on the verge of catastrophic climate change and with ravenous employers ... day of action" just before Bush arrives. The student day of action will seek to give voice to ...

9. No war on Iraq!

   a US invasion of Iraq. Scott Ritter, a former senior United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq, ... average of 200 per day). The world's greatest stockpile of "weapons of mass destruction" in ... we pledge to build the largest possible peaceful protest rallies in cities around Australia on ...

10. Congo: Tshisekedi supporters whip up chauvinism

    backers that the ADFL-led rebellion was a "foreign" invasion from Rwanda and Uganda, a charge ... and racial hatred" and offering Mobutu supporters a rallying point. Thousands military officers, ... strike. The demonstration that day fell far short of the numbers predicted by UDPS leaders. Hundreds of ...

11. UNITED STATES: Prospects for the new anti-war movement

    boycott the rally unless their wishes were heeded. To their enormous credit the students refused, and the ... subsequent rally excluded no-one and included anti-imperialist as well as pacifist demands. The huge success ... political direction of various coalitions. There were struggles over the political demands of rallies, over ...

12. WORLD: Largest coordinated anti-war protest in history

    morning of February 14 with the Fiji Anti-War Movement presenting a floral Valentine's Day protest ... protesters braved icy winds to rally near the United Nations building, filling the streets for 20 blocks. ... people marched or rallied in around 140 cities and towns throughout the US, including 60,000 in Los ...

13. Write On: Letters to �鶹��ý Weekly

    rallies, important as they are. Critically, we need to make arguments and organise within the labour ... invasion has violated — the growing public disquiet about the war can be turned into an irresistible mass ... marched against the war in February to no avail. In the week that half a million folks rallied in ...

14. Write on: letters to the editor

    get involved in the activities that directly affect Murris. Marching in the annual Invasion Day Rally ... Stoyich Fred Nile's cultural attache, or just a latter-day Les Patterson transmogrified into ... Percy was more correct when he referred to the irrationality of present day capitalism because ...

15. Muzzling the Chaser — the politics behind the outrage

    racism and attacks on civil liberties are recurring targets. The Chaser performed at anti-war rallies ... against the US-led invasion of Iraq. Their most famous stunt occurred at the 2007 APEC summit in Sydney. ... hardly new to The Chaser. This is the comedy team who, the day after the September 11, 2001 terrorist ...

16. 'Patching up' the alliance

    a memorial service for his grandfather, who was killed by a US soldier on April 1, 1944, the day that 55,000 ... movement, winning strong local and international support for their struggle. On April 15, the day that Bill ... in Okinawa and on the mainland. On April 16, 100 antiwar landowners attended a 10,000 strong rally in ...

17. John Pilger: How Australia betrayed East Timor

    conquest. The prize, said Evans, was “zillions” of dollars. Members of this gang reappeared the other day in ... Indonesia's secret plans for an invasion. He cabled Canberra that the government should “assist public ... a former senior CIA operations officer in the Jakarta embassy during the invasion of East Timor. He told ...

18. Afghanistan: US spy chief admits war going badly

    House National Secretary Council the day after al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, ... then-war secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice-President Dick Cheney pushed for an invasion of Iraq as the ... "it would be far easier initially to rally the world behind the specific target of al Qaeda". In ...

19. UNITED STATES: America's right turn?

    percentage of people who say they pray every day didn't change either. The media's focus on the ... turned on the Iraq war — voting to authorise Bush's invasion, criticising it during the primaries, ... still would have voted to authorise an invasion, even knowing that there were no weapons of mass ...

20. Write on: letters to the editor

    International Socialist Organisation moved that the slogan for the next rally be "The Senate wont save ... us". They were supported in this by Socialist Alternative and Workers Power. The next day a Melbourne ... have no threat of invasion or imminent revolutionary overthrow of collapse of capitalism, I shall ...

21. PHILIPPINES: Peace Camp opposes Bush's 'second front'

    aims? Peace Camp has undertaken several mass actions, big rallies. In fact, we had one as early as ... The next major project was a three-day peace concert, to which we invited 60 rock bands, the hottest ... zone, in fact, a peace camp, and for three days it was like Woodstock. What was very political about ...

22. UNITED STATES: Elian's rescue a blow to 'Miami Mafia'

    raid in a speech to a previously scheduled rally in Cuba on the evening of the same day. The rally, to ... commemorate the 39th anniversary of the victory over the US-organized Bay of Pigs invasion, was held at the ... expected at the event, but with the day's news the crowd swelled to an estimated size of between ...

23. World-wide protests demand: 'Don't attack Iraq!'

    war". Three hundred rallied in Houston, Texas. A similar number rallied in Orange County, California. In ... Italy, part of a 2000-strong rally was tear-gassed by police; 2000 people protested in Florence. In ... with flowers rallied in Tokyo." Hundreds marched in India and 500 demonstrated in Lahore, ...

24. Write On: Letters to �鶹��ý Weekly

    observers and designated rally marshals. Anyone interested in taking on this role for the day, which is ... Wednesday's rally, and as a pro-active move to support the students who are brave enough to continue to speak ... servicemen who put their lives on the line that day to save a small number of the massacre survivors, and who ...

25. BRITAIN: Blair takes on the firefighters

    the public sector. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) finished an eight-day strike on November 29, which ... followed a two-day strike two weeks earlier. A further eight-day strike, scheduled to begin on December 4, ... summer with dozens of rallies and marches, around the slogan cribbed from an advertising campaign: ...

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