January 22, 2003, marked 30 years since the historic Roe vs Wade decision that gave women in the US access to legal abortions. However, under the presidency of George Bush, that ruling seems increasingly precarious.
In addition to an anti-choice
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BY
KATHY NEWNAM
NEWCASTLE — Police estimated that 15,000 people took to the city's
streets on February 15 to oppose a war against Iraq.
Many of those participating commented to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly sellers
that it was the first time they had
BY PIP HINMAN
The Socialist Alliance has made stopping the war on Iraq and bringing back the troops the centrepiece of our NSW election campaign. The fact that this is a state election doesn't make our focus any less relevant.
Both major parties
BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG — An anti-war protest on International Women's Day, March 8, could attract numbers similar to or bigger than the 5000-strong February 8 anti-war demonstration.
International Women's Day Collective member and
BY DONNA BURNS
MELBOURNE — Thirty people attended a February 10 public forum in Footscray on the US drive to war against Iraq. The keynote speaker was Iraqi refugee Surma Hamid.
Speaking on behalf of the Committee for the Defence of Iraqi
BY
ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — Kicking off a weekend of massive international protest
against war on Iraq, nearly one in 50 Australians attended an anti-war
protests on February 14-16.
The weekend began with the largest peace demonstration in
BY ROHAN PEARCE
US Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the UN Security Council on February 5 added a new twist to Washington's propaganda offensive against Iraq. While he repeated the threadbare claims that Iraq has somehow hidden a
BY
NORM DIXON
People throughout the world have thronged to anti-war demonstrations
on February 14-16 in numbers that even protest organisers thought unimaginable.
As 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly went to press, it appears, based on conservative
BY NORMAN BREWER
More than 30,000 people mobilised on February 8 outside NATO security conference attended by US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and European defence and security officials. More than 3500 police closed large 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ of downtown
BY BRYAN SKETCHLEY
BRISBANE — In 2002, the Queensland treasury announced plans to strip state government departments of corporate support staff and place them in five departments. These departments would then sell corporate support services back
BY
TOM FLANAGAN
LISMORE — In what many participants described as the biggest political
event in this town's history, 5000 people — about a ninth of the town's
total population — overflowed Spinks Park to say no to any war on Iraq.
Lisa
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
PERTH — More than 20,000 people crammed in Forest Place in the CBD on February 15 for an anti-war rally organised by the NOWaR Alliance.
Contingents from Fremantle and Midland arrived on "peace trains". From Fremantle, three
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