Socialist Resistance

An archive of socialistresistance.org, 2002–2022

Student activists barge in on MTV

Socialist Resistance no1  |  page 8-9

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weapons of mass destruc- Americans have announced tion, but encouraged their their plans to occupy and

rule Iraq over the long term.

As CIA agent Walter Frank said 'there was no strategic being stopped from reOVer entering Iraq by the US. weapons of mass destrucIn mid-October Bush sent the Blair to Moscow, dossier in hand, to convince President the horse trading around Putin to support the war. the question of oil. It is posTony Blair, suffering the delu- sible that the British, having sion that Putin is as stupid as he is, was told by the Russian moral support, will be cut

The resolution from UN now depends entirely on their "No War On Iraq" T-shirts, little to offer apart from Eight New York University (NYU) students galecrashed MTVs New York studios on October 10, Masquerading as regular poploving youngsters, the students arrived in two separate groups, with sweaters covering up

They sat through a portion of the show, and then one group of studerts tore of their sweaters and stormed the stage.

*Can we have your attention, we have an urgent, announcement." protest organiser Jason Rowe called out as the MTV VI was announcing an Erriner video.

NYU student Agatha Koprowski jumped up and yelled, "Not in our name wil you kill more people in an unjust wart"

As the students were scuttled out, Fred Durst flead singer with Limp Bizkit), the show's guest, reportedly shot them dirty looks and scoffed at them.

Apparenty El Dursto car dish out youthful rebelion but he cant take the real thing!

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