BY KATHERINE BRADSTREET
SYDNEY — On April 2, around 1200 anti-war students and their supporters
defied the NSW police by gathering in SydneyÂ’s Town Hall Square to oppose
the war on Iraq and reaffirm their right to protest.
Despite a
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US warplanes dropped cluster bombs on the Iraqi town of Hilla. The deadly anti-personnel weapons are also believed to have been used in assaults on Najaf, Nasiriya and Basra by US-led invasion forces. Cluster munitions
BY
GRANT COLEMAN
The National Union of Students (NUS) has organised a national day
of action against funding cuts and student fee increases for April 10.
Kylie Moon, a leader of the student anti-war group Books Not Bombs, has
called on all
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — On March 30, at least 100,000 people marched through this city's streets to protest against the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its British and Australian appendages. In the wake of the mass anti-war march, there
BY PETER BOYLE
SYDNEY — The April 2 Books Not Bombs student anti-war protest in Sydney is the latest of several peaceful political demonstrations to be declared "unlawful" in the last six months by the NSW Labor government, led by Premier Bob
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