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  1. United States: The Clinton era, mark two?

    that his judgment in opposing the invasion of Iraq trumped Clinton's "experience" as ... Wall Street rally that accompanied the November 21 leak of Obama's impending selection of ... Geithner, it appears that big business agrees with the present-day Summers. One final difference marks the ...

  2. New sedition laws target anti-war movement

    in US-led invasions and occupations of other countries such as Iraq and, possibly in the future, Iran ... to another person, urging them to participate in a peaceful rally that calls for the withdrawal of ... until he was deported from Australia four days later. Parkin was arrested shortly before he was about to ...

  3. Gazans protest siege as Israeli attacks escalate

    ambulances from leaving. The rally, organised by the Popular Committee Against the Siege of Gaza, sought to ... moving heavy artillery into the region. Haaretz reported the same day that the Israeli military had been ... launched a ground invasion with tanks and infantry. A March 2 Ynet.com article reported that an Israeli ...

  4. Write on: Letters to the editor

    refugee rights, to the war crime of the invasion of Iraq. Our memories are long, and Howard will one day ... that I have never seen before. At the big rally on October 3, speakers from Socialist Alliance, ALP, ...

  5. ISRAEL: 'Moderates' collapse as Sharon uses iron fist

    the Palestinian resistance. Prior to the current full-scale invasion of the occupied territories, ... around 3000 Israelis and Palestinians rallied to demand an end to the war, the occupation and war crimes. ... serious challenge. For seven days, it has acted to root out terrorist nests". He added that ...

  6. GERMANY: 'Keine lust auf krieg!'

    significant interests in Iraq which could be threatened by a US invasion. The radical wing of the movement ... Munich". Ironically, it was the police who brought the spectre of the violence to Munich. The day before ... the rally, reported on the left-wing US e-list Portside: "A minority praised... Schroeder and... ...

  7. SOUTH KOREA: Big protests oppose troops to Iraq

    ministers for the additional troops to be sent only three days after listening to a PADKTI delegation on ... "sectoral" 鈥 i.e. students, workers 鈥 rallies. Since November 17, some activists, including a 82-year-old ... is not just to use Korean troops as tools for the invasion of another country". The National ...

  8. Remembering the Kwangju uprising

    rebellion began the very next day with student demonstrations. Troops dispatched to control the students ... Won, fought back, organising a giant rally on May 25, calling on the workers to rearm themselves and ... prepare to meet the inevitable invasion of government troops. Chun Doo Hwan, a surviving leader of the ...

  9. Write On: Letters to 麻豆传媒 Weekly

    at the anti-war rallies 鈥 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 ...

  10. 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] ...

  11. 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 ...

  12. 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 ...

  13. Beastie Boys Adam Yauch 鈥 maker of music that broke the rules

    shock of the group's emergence in 1987: 鈥淚n 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 ...

  14. 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 ...

  15. 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 ...

  16. 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 ...

  17. 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 ...

  18. 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 ...

  19. 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 ...

  20. 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 ...

  21. Write On: Letters to 麻豆传媒 Weekly

    rallies, important as they are. Critically, we need to make arguments and organise within the labour ... invasion has violated 鈥 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 ...

  22. 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 ...

  23. Muzzling the Chaser 鈥 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 ...

  24. '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 ...

  25. John Pilger: How Australia betrayed East Timor

    conquest. The prize, said Evans, was 鈥渮illions鈥 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 鈥渁ssist public ... a former senior CIA operations officer in the Jakarta embassy during the invasion of East Timor. He told ...

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