INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY
WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
UN Information Note
The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is observed
by the United Nations on 29 November each year in accordance wit
UN General Assembly condemns excessive force by Israel
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 20 (South News) - The UN General Assembly voted by an
overwhelming majority late Friday to condemn what it called Israel's
excessive use of force against Palestinian civilians.
The resolution was adopted by
UN Press Release 7 October 2000
SC/6934
SECURITY COUNCIL DEPLORES 28 SEPTEMBER PROVOCATION IN JERUSALEM, ADOPTING
RESOLUTION 1322 (2000) BY 14-0-1 (UNITED STATES)
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**Protest the killing of Palestinian children and unarmed civilians**
A solidarity march with Palestinians living under the horror of Israeli
military force
Time: 4.00pm
Date: Friday 6 October
Place: Victorian State Library- then march to Parliament at 5pm
Organised by the Palestinian Communi
September 2000 anti-globalisation in Melbourne
While the World Economic Forum meets at Melbourne's Crown Casino,
Trade Unions - N.G.O.s + community groups are organising
over a week of counter events - forums and protests
NGO's convergence
US Bombs Iraq for Second Night
Baghdad: (South News): August 13 - U.S. warplanes bombed Iraq on
Saturday in a second straight night of raids by Western aircraft.
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http://southmovement.alphalink.com.au/southnews/000812-iraq.htm
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Over 100 Arrested in Iraq Protest at US White House
WASHINGTON: (South News) August 7 - Chanting "stop the sanctions now!"
and carrying a water purifier that U.S. policy forbids being sent to
Iraq, a few hundred people demonstrated outside the White House on
Monday, and 104 were arrested after th
Call for sanctions against Iraq to be lifted
ABC news Mon, 31 Jul 2000 3:25 AEST
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-31jul2000-19.htm
Hollywood stars have joined peace activists in a call to the United States
to lift economic sanctions imposed a decade ago on Iraq, claiming the
Former UN arms inspector finds a new calling
South News commentary, July 31 2000
by Dave Muller
Former UN arms inspector Scott Ritter is back in Baghdad. This time on the
invitation of the Iraqi leadership. He visited four suspected UNSCOM
weapons sites in t
Our ex-pat journalist John Pilger -- who recently made the important
anti-sanctions documentary "Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq"
-- is launching a new web site with a wealth of fantastic journalistic
material.
The web site ("Hidden Agendas: The Films and Writings of John Pilger
On SBS, Saturday JULY 22 7.30 - AS IT HAPPENED:
PAYING THE PRICE: KILLING THE CHILDREN OF IRAQ-
The resignation of the UN's ambassador to Iraq and his outcry against US
sanctions, has turned the world's attention to the morality of imposing
them. This investigat
*** Break the Media Bias ***
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From Iraq to the GST the mainstream media
feeds us with an interlinking chain of
propaganda, half-truths & downright lies.
Date: Thursday June 29
Time: 12 noon
Place : Meet
STOP THE GENOCIDE IN IRAQ
*** Demonstrate against Richard Butler's book launch ***
The mongrel who provoked the Dec 1988 bombing of Iraq is back in town.
The butler is launching a new book of old lies "Saddam Defiant" to
rekindle a new anti-Iraqi campaign.
"Mad Dog" Butler likes to build up
*** Break the Media Bias ***
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>From Iraq to the GST the mainstream media
feeds us with an interlinking chain of
propaganda, half-truths & downright lies.
The truth about the suffering of the
Iraqi peopl
Eyeless in Baghdad -The Banin Appeal
4 months old BANIN was brought to the private Baghdad clinic of Dr.
Mohammed Salman, ophthalmic surgeon. She had non opened her eyes since her
birth, but tears came out when she cried.
On clinical inspection, the lids of both eyes were shor
STOP THE GENOCIDE IN IRAQ
An appeal to all people of conscience, of all anti-racist and peace
organisations to stop the genocide of the Iraqi people.
*** Demonstrate against Richard Butler's book launch ***
The mongrel who provoked the Dec 1988 bombing of Iraq is back in town. The
butle
The internet has reinforced its crucial role in bypassing blockages in
media communication by allowing some email and websites to produce news
updates on the coup attempt.
Best Fiji Web Sites for information on the 'coup' attempt:
http://www.usp.ac.fj/journ/ - Reporting from USP's Journalism
Melbourne screening of John Pilgers latest documentary
"Paying the Price, killing the children of Iraq"
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* "Madeline Albright thinks that the price is worth it. *
* No it is not. *
* It is time t
Melbourne screening of John Pilgers latest documentary
"Paying the Price, killing the children of Iraq"
Time : 2pm
Date: Saturday May 13
Place: Hayden Ray Smith Room, 4 Floor
ROSS HOUSE, 247 Flinders lane, Melbourne
Light refreshments provided, Waged $5.00 Unwaged $3.00
Further details contact
New Zealand to help stop Iraq deaths
WELLINGTON: April 18, (South News) New Zealand has expressed its concern to
the United Nations over the effectiveness of, and suffering caused by,
continued economic sanctions against Iraq, Foreign Minister Phil Goff said
on Monday.
He said New Zealand wou
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http://www.indymedia.org
Then follow the link to info on the week's activities in DC.
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After the Seattle victory that stopped the World Trade Organization
ministerial meeting in it's 'fast' tracks, thousands are now
The G-77 South Summit will be held in Havana,Cuba
at Havana's Conference Center, on 10-14 April 2000.
It is the first G-77's such Conference at Summit level
it was formally founded in Geneva in 1964 by 77 developing countries
as a preparation to the 1st Conference of United Nations
Conference on
Denis Halliday
Former Assistant Secretary General of the UN
Former head of the UN 'Oil for Food' program in Iraq
will address the question of:
SANCTIONED SUFFERING?
ECONOMIC SANCTIONS IMPOSED ON IRAQ
Denis Halliday will address the issues of the legality of the sanctions,
their humanitarian im
Subject: SIGN-ON: Demands to the IMF
This is a call for endorsements of demands that 50 Years Is Enough Network
is making to the World Bank and IMF in relation to their semi-annual
meetings in April. We encourage broad circulation and sign-ons by
ORGANIZATIONS supporting t
Greek protest-Go Home Killer Clinton
ATHENS: Nov 19 (South News)- Leftist protesters hung a huge banner that
read "Killer Clinton"on the side of on a mountainside overlooking central
Athens Friday greeting US president Clinton with calls of ''Go Home.''
Another giant banner hanging from Athen
UN votes to end Cuba embargo
UNITED NATIONS : Nov 9 (South News) - The United Nations has voted
overwhelmingly, for the eighth year in a row, for an end to America's
40-year-old economic embargo against Cuba.
Similar resolutions have been adopted by increasing majorities each year
since 1992
Charges over 1980 Nato coverup
Synopsis: Four Italian generals are to stand trial after an
investigation into the crash of a passenger aircraft 19 years ago which
found that air force officials hid the fact that the airliner got caught
up in a dogfight between Libyan and NATO fighter jets. The ci
Anti-nuclear group on warns NASA plutonium flyby
Darwin: August 18 (South News)-An anti-nuclear group says residents of
northern Australia should be worried about a close encounter with a NASA
spacecraft as it swings past the Earth carrying radioactive plutonium.
The group, Everyone for a Nuclea
PASADENA, California (AP) -- A two-story, $3.4 billion spacecraft carrying
a load of deadly plutonium will zoom within 725 miles of Earth this week to
gain momentum for the final leg of its meandering, seven-year voyage to Saturn.
But anti-nuclear activists, concerned over the 72 pounds of carc
Iraqi children under five are dying at more than twice the rate they were
10 years ago according to a report from Unicef, the United Nations'
children's fund. The report compiled in conjunction with the World Health
Organisation and the Iraqi Government is the first survey of child and
matern
MOSUL: Aug 10 (South News) - US warplanes bombed a fourth-century
Christian monastery in northern Iraq Tuesday, killing and wounding a
number of people at the site of a camp set up for astronomers and
physicists from across the Arab world hoping for a grandstand view of
the solar eclipse.
ht
PKK statement on Ocalan verdict
Statement to the Press and General Public
The conspiracy started with the abduction and handing over of our
national leader to the Turkish Republic on 15 February 1999 has now
passed its first phase with the decision of Imrali court on 29 June
1999, despite hi
World Court rejects but worries on NATO genocide
HAGUE June 2 (South News) - The World Court Wednesday rejected a Yugoslav
request to halt NATO air strikes on its territory, but expressed concern
about the legal basis for the bombing.
Judges at the International Court of Justice declined to imp
BALKANS: CIA 'to launch secret cyberwar'
WASHINGTON, May 23 (South News) - The CIA plans to step up its covert war
against Yugoslavia, including training KLA rebels in acts of sabotage,
Newsweek magazine reports in Monday's edition.
The magazine reports that President Bill Clinton has authorize
The Australian Arabic Council regrets to announce that Robert Fisk's
visit to Australia has been cancelled. Due to his commitment to
covering the current conflict in the Balkans, he will be unable to make
the scheduled visit.
The Australian Arabic Council hopes there will be another opportunity
International Action Center
Press release May 14, 1999
NATO BOMBING UNLEASHES
ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE IN EUROPE
Spokespeople for the International Action Center announced in New York
today that their group was taking actions to document NATO's bombing
as a war crime agains
Robert Fisk, journalist with the British 'Independent' newspaper, will
be in Melbourne Tuesday
speaking on "Threats, Lies and Videotape". He has exposed the Pentagon's
use of depleted uranium (DU) in Iraq and Kosovo.
Charles Pearson Theatre
Education Resource Centre
Melbourne Univ
The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said today NATO planes have finally
destroyed Novi Sad's last remaining bridge across the Danube, Zezeljev
Bridge despite Novi Sad residents forming human shields.
The people of Belgrade are still guarding the Brankov bridge as a human
shields against NATO airstrik
International Journalists Protest NATO Attack
BRUSSELS: (South News) April 23 - The International Federation of Journali=
sts today condemned the
NATO bombing of Serbian state television as "a broken promise that threate=
ns the lives of all journalists
and media staffs."
``This bomb attack se
A mesage to all the friends of Yugoslavia
and all the people of good will
Send your drawings and cartoons and join the action designed to stop the
agression of NATO forces on Yugoslavia.
Send your works to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your drawings will
Join in the international day of solidarity against Nato bombing
Support the people of Belgrade guarding the Brankov bridge as a human
shields against NATO airstrikes.
Place: Flinders St SouthBank walk bridge
Time: 2pm
Date : Saturday April 17
Please bring target signs and solidarity banners
L
International Demos Against Bombing Yugoslavia
ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS SET INTERNATIONAL DAY OF
PROTESTS AGAINST U.S./NATO BOMBING OF
YUGOSLAVIA, SAT., APRIL 17
Attention all anti-war activists. The International Action Center is
calling for an internationally coordinated
day of demonstrations agai
Germans heading deserters' columns
http://www.serbia-info.com/news/1999-04/08/10628.html
Skopje, April 9, 1999 (abridged) -
Announcement of possible ground
attack on Yugoslavia by NATO
troops stationed in Macedonia,
caused uneasiness among the alliance
soldiers, therefore many of them
decided
Uranium weapon fears in Kosovo
BBC :Friday, April 9, 1999
By Environment Correspondent Alex Kirby
Russia's Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov says he believes Nato
forces may be using weapons containing radioactivity
against Yugoslavia.
"In a number of areas of Kosovo, experts have dete
Melbourne's Serbs protest over media bias
MELBOURNE:(South News)April 6: Members of Melbourne's Serbian community
held a candlelight rally against the NATO airstrikes in Yugoslavia last
night and accused the Australian media of biased reporting.
About 200 people conducted a peaceful protest
NATO bombs whitegoods factory
CACAK, Yugoslavia, April 1 (AFP) - Two nights of NATO airstrikes have left an
electrical
appliance factory at this town south of Belgrade, virtually in ruins, an AFP
correspondent
who visited the site said.
A score of hangars and other buildings in the Sloboda
ANTI-WAR PROTESTS AROUND THE WORLD AGAINST U.S./NATO BOMBING OF
YUGOSLAVIA:
ALPHABETICAL LIST BY LOCATION
http://www.iacenter.org/yugdemos.htm
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NATO targets Yugoslav refugees- agency
Melbourne ( South News) 30 March: AT least nine and possibly up to 15 refugees
had been killed in Yugoslavia because of NATO air strikes, Care Yugoslavia
said today.
Care Yugoslavia spokesman Steve Pratt told Australian ABC radio that Care
field staff h
Angry anti-US Demonstrations sweep Australia
MELBOURNE, (South News) March 28: Thousands gathered outside the United
States consulates in Australia to voice their anger today to protest
against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
6,000 in Melbourne, were complemented by 7,000 in Sydney, 1500 in Pert
U.S. ATTACKS LITTLE YUGOSLAVIA: A DAY OF INFAMY
By Deirdre Griswold
In a day that will live in infamy, the United States began
a brutal military assault on Yugoslavia under cover of
darkness on the night of March 24.
All the excuses given by President Bill Clinton cannot
conceal
Israeli Guards Kill Three Kurds In Berlin
BERLIN February 17 (South News) -Israeli security guards shot and killed
three Kurds who forced their way into the Israeli consulate Wednesday with
dozens of protesters enraged by reports that Israel aided in the arrest of
the foremost Kurdish rebel lead
Friday 19 February, 5.30-6.30pm
As part of the International Asia Pacific Regional Peace Conference, the
Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne is hosting a public lecture
by Mr Richard Butler, Executive Chairman, UNSCOM, New York.
Topic: "Non- Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Spy data 'sent via Australian station'
By LINCOLN WRIGHT
Canberra Times Thursday Jan 28
A former United States National Security Agency officer, Bill Arkin,
has reportedly told the New York Times that intelligence data from
Iraq might have been transmitted through an Australian
communication
Australia 'knew of UNSCOM deception'
Melbourne: Jan 27 (South News) - A former UN weapons inspector accused the
Australian government Wednesday of being well aware Australians working in
Iraq with UNSCOM were illicitly supplying intelligence to the United States.
Former US marine Scott Ritter
Resources on Depleted Uranium **
Article: Robert Fisk - The evidence is there. We caused cancer in
the Gulf.
October 16, 1998 The Independent, UK
http://leb.net/IAC/fisk2.html
Depleted Uranium Education Pro
ivilian
infrastructure of Iraq. And it was supported by the Federal
government!! A new US bombing campaign will backfire on Australian
trade right around the world," another activist, David Muller said.
Iraq recently threatened to cancel Australian wheat because the
government support of US
New operation on Iraq will target south
00:00 GMT, 15 January 1999
AMMAN, Jan 15 (AFP) -With the
Moslem holy month of Ramadan drawing
to a close, the United States and Britain
are preparing to concentrate new
military strikes within Iraq's southern
"no-fly" zone, diplomats here said.
New operation on Iraq will target south
00:00 GMT, 15 January 1999
AMMAN, Jan 15 (AFP) -With the
Moslem holy month of Ramadan drawing
to a close, the United States and Britain
are preparing to concentrate new
military strikes within Iraq's southern
"no-fly" zone, diplomats here said.
WHAT'S NEW IN U.S. AGGRESSION AGANST IRAQ?
By Brian Becker
After the bombing, what is next?
Will there be a new war against Iraq? Will the genocidal
sanctions be kept on indefinitely?
What is the next stage in the ongoing U.S.-Iraq conflict
likely to produce?
It is obvious that there is t
Sunday Jan 17 Iraq anti sanctions/ antiwar rally
Community protest against:
"falling into" a new Iraq war,
inhumane sanctions and
use of Depleted Uranium
Speeches, music, Melbourne Workers theatre
and more ...
***
Place: lawn at State Library
Time: 1:00pm Sunday Jan 17
URGENT MESSAGE CONCERNING USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONS
The documents from the December 2-3, 1998 Conference on the "Health
Consequences of DU Weapons Used By US and British Forces" held in
Baghdad is available on the web.. This material is vitally important
and should be looked at closel
Protest against a "falling into" a new Iraq war, inhumane
sanctions and
use of depleted uranium
There is an organising meeting for a protest rally on Sunday Jan
17
Speakers to be finalised, street theatre to concentrate their
focus and
banners made
( location on Sunday to be decided ***
Iraq slams US black ops
http://southmovement.alphalink.com.au/southnews/990110-blackops.htm
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DRAFT PROTEST TO THE UN SECR. GENERAL
Kofi Annan,
Secretary-General
United Nations
New York,
Your Excellency,
We have just learned with dismay that you have requested UN
monitoring
personnel to leave Iraq as a result of threats by the United
States to
commit aggression against Iraq.
By requ
US prepares new Iraq strike
BAGHDAD: (South News,Dec 16) The United Nations ordered its staff
out of Baghdad
Wednesday after a UNSCOM chairman Richard Butler criticised Iraq
for
breaking its promise to cooperate fully over weapons inspections.
The decision raised the spectre of a new military c
Assemble GPO at 5pm
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http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton
'People against Sanctions' on Iraq will be holding a photograghic
display on
the efffects of the use DU on the children in Iraq since the 1991 Gulf
War.
Photographs were taken by Professor Siegwart-Horst Gunther, MD, DSc, PhD
Captions: English, French, German and Arabic
Sunday 5th December, 9
Iraq hosts Gulf War DU conference
BAGHDAD (South News, Nov 30)--A conference on the devastating
effects of depleted uranium shells used by Western forces during
the Gulf war opens in Baghdad on Wednesday.
The conference this week focuses attention on an enduring
health and environmental disast
Butler provokes new Iraq crisis
South News commentary
Nov 22
The level of provocation against Iraq is far more subtle and destructive
than is immediately apparent. UNSCOM executive chairman Richard Butler -
who appears only too willing to participate in an Iraq goading campaign,
now has his
U.S. Launched, Aborted Air Raid On Iraq
07:48 p.m Nov 14, 1998 Eastern
By Charles Aldinger
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. B-52 bombers headed for
Iraq with cruise missiles Saturday but the raid was aborted
after Baghdad offered to cooperate with U.N. arms
inspections, a U.S. official sa
Demo against bombing
If you are in Melbourne, we have a meeting at the Lincoln on Sat 14 at
2pm.
If an attack occurs before, meet at 4.30 at GPO for rally and demo to ?
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Gulf Peace Project.
http://www.paradigm4.com.a
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 22:42:18 + (GMT)
From: Rania Masri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ADC Iraq Task Force] BE READY!
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: ADC Iraq Task Force <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Just heard - from an unpublished source at CNN - that t
Malaysia against Iraq sanctions and US bombing
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 12 (South News) -- Malaysia blamed the UN security council
for failing to move forward in fostering confidence building measures to
prevent the current UNSCOM standoff as the United States edged closer to
military strikes agains
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Anne Fahey 9690 5953
Steve Reghenzani 9429 9837
or David Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Fahey 9690 5963
Steve Reghenzani 9429 9837
or David Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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IRAQ ATTACK ALERT!URGENT!
PLEASE FORWARD
National Public Radio (NPR) just had a Pentagon spokesman admit that the
aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is on its way to the Persian Gulf. There it
will join the armada organized around the USS George Washington. It appears
that Clinton has opted for the
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