BY CLAYTON MCDONALD
BYRON BAY — "I have seen the bomb. I have felt the blast. I have heard the silence and seen the devastation afterwards", Bali bombing survivor Hanabeth Luke told the 3000 protesters who had marched to the Byron Bay beach park
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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
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Protesters against the food irradiation plant being built at Narangba, 50km north of the city, have won a major victory with the dismissal of a state government move in the Supreme Court to have their protest camp
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On February 14, White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer made a valiant but unsuccessful attempt to argue that the report by chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix to the UN Security Council earlier that day provided more justification
BY
IAN STOLP & JULES GREEN
HOBART — Between 12,000 and 15,000 people marched on February 15,
in one of the biggest demonstrations ever held here. It took more than
40 minutes for the marchers to travel the 500-metre route. Protesters,
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,
The Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC), which serves as the secretariat of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement, has expressed its disgust with the US military build up on Guam, specifically the deployment of B-1 and B-52 bombers
BY TERRY JONES
I'm really excited by US President George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am I! For some time now, I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street.
BY DANNY FAIRFAX
CANBERRA — "In my opinion, it doesn't matter if the UN is arm-twisted into a war with Iraq, it's still immoral" — these blunt words set the tone for federal Labor MP Carmen Lawrence's talk to a meeting organised by the Canberra
BY
LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — In one of the most amazing displays of political passion
in SydneyÂ’s 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
According to radical Latin American journalist MARTA HARNECKER, "the process of Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution" is little understood by much of the left. One of Harnecker's latest books is Hugo Chavez: One Man, One People, an interview with the
BY MARCE CAMERON
BRISBANE — Around 100,000 protesters turned up to oppose war on Iraq on February 15, making it probably the biggest protest in the city's history.
"How is the US so sure Iraq has had weapons of mass destruction?", rally chair
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