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Anti-war protests across Asia

BY IGGY KIM & EVA CHENG As in the rest of the world, there were anti-war protests across Asia on February 14-16. The largest protest was in Tokyo, with 25,000 people marching on February 14. In Thailand, 15,000 protested in two cities

An activist for refugees' rights

BY SARAH STEPHEN Betty Dixon, a 73-year-old grandmother from Goulburn, NSW, is an indication of the growing diversity of the refugees' rights movement. Dixon describes herself as an activist. She has visited Woomera detention centre three times

Anti-war activist notebook

1000 protest in Daylesford BY MARG MURPHY DAYLESFORD, Victoria — Inspired by the February 14 massive mobilisation in Melbourne, around 1000 residents took over the main street on February 22 to say "no to war". The arriving crowd was greeted by

IRAQ: European leaders reject US rush to war

BY DOUG LORIMER In the wake of the February 14-16 international weekend of anti-war demonstrations — in which up to 12 million people participated — leaders of the 15 European Union countries held an emergency summit on February 17 to cobble

BRITAIN: February 15 was 'something remarkable and beautiful'

BY DEBRA PAYNE LONDON — Many people on the February 15 London anti-war march peace march hadn't been on a march before. But I had and let me tell you it was terrific. I was on one of 25 buses that left Nottingham for London, along with 300

ANTARCTICA: Bush's war plans given cold shoulder

On February 15, around 50 people gathered at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, to participate the in global day of peace demonstrations. Meanwhile, reports Paolo Calisse, Amundsen-Scott Station, “We organised a rally here at the South Pole,

Anti-war organising in Mackay

BY SHANE HOPKINSON MACKAY, north Queensland — A week after moving to Mackay from Rockhampton, where I had been involved in anti-war organising, I received a phone call asking if any Mackay actions were planned. A quick phone call to the local

Ecopella celebrates the Earth

SYDNEY — A cappella ensemble Ecopella will launches its first CD, An Organism Called Earth, on March 1 at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre. Founded in 1998, the Sydney-based Ecopella was the first Australian choir to focus its repertoire on

SPAIN: Four million marchers shake Aznar

BY ED GEORGE LEON — The February 15 anti-war mobilisations were huge all over the world; in the Spanish state they were truly enormous. If one tots up the 1.5 million who marched in Madrid with the 1 million plus in Barcelona, and then add

Police destroy part of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

BY PAUL OBOOHOV CANBERRA — Seventy police, 30 in riot gear, raided the Aboriginal Tent Embassy at 6am on February 19. They dismantled a recently erected A-frame tin goonji. Most of those sleeping on-site at the time of the raid were women and

ITALY: Millions of people flood Rome

BY STEPHEN BENNETTS ROME — At least 2 million people (organisers estimate 3 million) from all over Italy converged on Rome on February 15, one of the largest peace rallies held in the world on that day. An entire section of the historic

Labor divisions over war deepen

BY ALISON DELLIT The February 14-16 world-wide peace protests starkly exposed the gulf between the warmongering governments and media of Australia, the United States and Britain on the one hand, and the populations of those countries on the