BY AMY MCDONELL
ADELAIDE — On March 5, Adelaide's Kurdish community protested plans by Turkey to join the US in invading and occupying Northern Iraq (South Kurdistan). More than 100 people gathered at Victoria Square for a march to state
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Itching for Gulf War III
"We suddenly discover that Iran is much further along, with a far more robust nuclear weapons development program than anyone said it had." — US Secretary of State and UN slide shows Colin Powell, March 13.
Practicing
BY
PIP HINMAN
As the US-led war on Iraq began in earnest on March 20, the mass
outpouring of anger across the world surprised even some seasoned campaigners.
In Australia, around 90,000 people took their protest to the streets in
all the
About 300 attended a protest in Mackay on March 22, and listened to a range of speakers from the community including Laurie Horgan (secretary of the Mackay Branch of QCTU) and Tim Mulherin the state labour member, Green
BY EMMA MURPHY
ADELAIDE — On hearing US President George Bush's declaration of imminent war on March 18, 500 people flocked to Parliament House at 5pm. The spontaneous crowd was passionate, loud, and articulate in its outright rejection of the
Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's ROHAN PEARCE examines the main justifications used by US President George Bush and Prime Minister John Howard to justify the US-led invasion of Iraq.
1. Iraq possesses chemical and biological weapons
The UN inspections have so
BY KYLIE MOON
"Stop school to stop the war!" This was a call put out by Books Not Bombs (BNB) following US President George Bush's March 17 48-hour ultimatum to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. It was met on March 20 by thousands of students putting
30,000 people shut down the centre of Melbourne three hours after the first cruise missiles were launched on Baghdad on Thursday. Victorian Peace Network (VPN) volunteers told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly that many of the peace
Within hours of Bush's declaration of war on March 18, people in Perth were protesting in their thousands. Protests continued throughout the week, culminating in a massive rally and march through central Perth on March
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — On the eve of the March 22 NSW election, both Labor Premier Bob Carr and Liberal Party leader John Brogden pleaded with voters not to make the war on Iraq a state election issue.
However, the rapid growth of the
Shortly after the bombing of Iraq began people started to gather at the State Library to protest against the start of the war. The protesters, organised by the Victorian Peace Network, heard from a range of speakers before setting off at 6.30pm for the army's Victoria Barracks on St Kilda Road. As it marched down Swanston Street, the rally doubled in size to 50,000.
Blockies for peace
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
LAUNCESTON — When the war started, like many others, I just had to protest. I joined around 100 other furious people on the side of one of Launceston's busiest roads, calling on motorists to honk for peace.
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