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1. Congo: Tshisekedi supporters whip up chauvinism

   invasion from Rwanda and Uganda, a charge based on the chauvinist view that the Congolese Tutsi minority ... Tshisekedi of preaching "xenophobia and racial hatred" and offering Mobutu supporters a rallying ... for a general strike. The demonstration that day fell far short of the numbers predicted by UDPS ...

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

   the projected protest. They even threatened to boycott the rally unless their wishes were heeded. To ... their enormous credit the students refused, and the subsequent rally excluded no-one and included ... struggles over the political demands of rallies, over whether it was appropriate to carry the flag of the ...

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

   the morning of February 14 with the Fiji Anti-War Movement presenting a floral Valentine's Day ... 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 ...

4. Write On: Letters to 91������̳ Weekly

   beyond simply building large rallies, important as they are. Critically, we need to make arguments and ... that the invasion has violated — the growing public disquiet about the war can be turned into an ... rallied in Washington against the Vietnam War, Nixon was preparing for the escalation of the war. ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 'Patching up' the alliance

   1944, the day that 55,000 US troops landed in Okinawa. The recent events were triggered by the rape of ... April 15, the day that Bill Clinton arrived in Japan to "patch up the relationship" between ... a 10,000 strong rally in Tokyo. They marked the "return" of Futenma as a positive outcome of ...

8. 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 ...

9. Afghanistan: US spy chief admits war going badly

   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 principal target of ... would be far easier initially to rally the world behind the specific target of al Qaeda". In Bush ...

10. 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 ...

11. Write on: letters to the editor

    rally be "The Senate wont save us". They were supported in this by Socialist Alternative and ... Workers Power. The next day a Melbourne University forum on "Blocking the Budget: which way ... invasion or imminent revolutionary overthrow of collapse of capitalism, I shall cancel my subscription to ...

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

    read "Elvis hates war". Three hundred rallied in Houston, Texas. A similar number rallied in ... protests in Turkey and Syria. In Bologna, Italy, part of a 2000-strong rally was tear-gassed by police; ... President Bush or carrying toy guns with flowers rallied in Tokyo." Hundreds marched in India and 500 ...

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

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

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

    same day. The rally, to commemorate the 39th anniversary of the victory over the US-organized Bay of ... Fidel Castro hailed the raid in a speech to a previously scheduled rally in Cuba on the evening of the ... Pigs invasion, was held at the sugar mill that served as Cuba's field headquarters during that ...

15. Write On: Letters to 91������̳ Weekly

    used by police at Wednesday's rally, and as a pro-active move to support the students who are ... and work alongside legal observers and designated rally marshals. Anyone interested in taking on this ... role for the day, which is essentially about being advocates for youth activists, need no special ...

16. BRITAIN: Blair takes on the firefighters

    workers throughout 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 ... over the summer with dozens of rallies and marches, around the slogan cribbed from an advertising ...

17. Kellie Tranter: 'Assange and Manning remind us we have a right to know'

    below at a July 16 rally in Sydney organised by the Support Assange and WikiLeaks Coalition. * * * I’d ... I sincerely thank you for coming. How fortuitous that this very day the NSW ALP are debating and developing ... pool resources, to continue to rally, to speak out publicly and online, to educate others, to build ...

18. Pakistan: Musharraf struggles to hold on

    response to Bhutto's murder. Bhutto was shot as she left an election rally in Rawalpindi, by a gunman ... country down for five days and a mass outpouring of anger against Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 ... "war on terror". While Pakistan was used as a platform for the invasion of Afghanistan, the US ...

19. Venezuela's revolution accelerates

    Caracas, banners and billboards carried the slogan that summarised what had occurred on those fateful days ... through the three days, detailing the events surrounding the coup and subsequent uprising. On the streets, ... everyone was remembering what it was that they did during those days. It was impossible to miss the upbeat ...

20. John Pilger: A world war has begun-- break the silence

    day for twelve years. Bikini is silent today, mutated and contaminated. Palm trees grow in a strange ... headline: "You, too, can have a bikini body." A few days earlier, in the Marshall Islands, I had ... campaign against China. Seldom a day passes when China is not elevated to the status of ...

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