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Leichhardt activists organise against war BY LACHLAN MALLOCH SYDNEY - The recently formed Leichhardt Stop the War Group is demonstrating the breadth of local opposition to the waging of war on the people of Iraq. Its members include the mayor of Leichhardt, people from progressive parties such as the Greens, the Socialist Alliance and the Communist Party of Australia, the reverend of a local church, activists who are old enough to have marched against the Korean War and a 10-year old local boy and his father. The group will hold its first public event on Invasion/Australia Day, with a “Picnic for Peace” to be held from noon at Bicentenial Park (end of Glebe Point Road) on January 26. Mayor Maire Sheehan will address the peace picnic, which will also feature entertainment and banner painting. People are asked to bring their own food and drink. A “Walk against the War” will be held at 7.30pm on the evening of February 1, gathering at Leichhardt Town Hall on Norton Street. Speakers will include Reverend Don Wright, the Leichhardt deputy mayor and Greens candidate for Port Jackson Jamie Parker, anti-war activist and refugee campaigner Paul Benedek, who is the Socialist Alliance's candidate for Port Jackson, 10-year-old Joseph Alcock, anti-Pine Gap campaigner and Communist Party member Denis Doherty and union activist Col Cooper. Participants are asked to bring candles, torches and placards. The Leichhardt group is holding stalls and leafleting to both build the local events, and build a massive local contingent to protests that are part of the February 15-16 national weekend of action against war in Iraq. The next Leichhardt STWG meeting is at 7.30pm, Thursday January 30 at Leichhardt Town Hall. Phone Paul on 0410 629 088 for information. From Green Left Weekly, January 22, 2003. Visit the Green Left Weekly home page @ http://www.greenleft.org.au/ [ Introductory offer: $10 for 7 issues. Send an eMail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 1800 634 206 (FREE call from anywhere in Australia) or phone us on +61 (0)2 9690 1230 or fax us at +61 (0)2 9690 1381. ] ---- more info on http://www.active.org.au/sydney/calendar/?display=zoom&event=666 also: http://www.active.org.au/sydney/calendar/?display=zoom&event=653 Anti-War Protest targeting Sikorsky Aircraft (War Profiteer) 12:00pm Saturday 1 February Newtown Bridge (King St), march to Sikorsky HQ Transport: Train to Newtown Station. Buses 423, 426, 428 from city. Contact: Minh Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.d7design.com.au/clients/acmica/enews/sikorsky.pdf Anti-war rally and march against Sikorsky Aircraft Corp (makers of Black Hawks, Comanche) - war profiteer - Marrickville's Merchant of Death! WHY SIKORSKY? The Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation are makers of Black Hawk and Sea Hawk helicopters. The Australian Army uses them to transport troops into battle. Sikorsky supplies means for delivering murder and misery as the US imposes its interests the world over. Sikorsky is here in Marrickville – down by Alexandra Canal. They want new multi-billion dollar deals in Australia to replace Black Hawk & Navy helicopters. Their prospects are good. Military spending shot from $11,000 million to $13,300 million a year in the last 2 years. Billions are spent making war so the US can dominate the world’s oil reserves. Meanwhile Medicare flounders, education funds shrink and social programmes suffers. TARGETING OUR GOVERNMENT IS NOT ENOUGH! Our Government humiliates Australians by subservience to the American Empire. It ties us into US bullying and aggression making us, with the US, an object of increasing foreign resentment. But targeting our governments is not enough. We must also target the corporate networks and institutions that provide the logic for war. The corporate-industrial-military complex has a huge say in Australia. Coalition & Labor governments, to their shame, look after foreign corporate giants, and a few local ones too, deregulating, restructuring, privatisating, warmongering. Ordinary people cop the consequences. War is good for business. Manufacturers like Sikorsky use government commitment to the American Empire. They get Canberra spending billions on military equipment and arms. Their interests are driving Australian foreign policy. IT’S TIME TO SAY NO MORE! - No war for oil! No Australian involvement in American aggression in Iraq! - Starve warmongering military profiteers! - Down with Sikorsky – Marrickville’s local merchant of death! Organised by the MARRICKVILLE COMMUNITY PEACE GROUP A peace group set up by Marrickville residents concerned to oppose the involvement of the Australian military in an American War against Iraq. For more information, contact Colin on 0405 009 435 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
