Bush and Blair would have us • believe that the antiard, yet the
are being marginalised, yet the protests around the world continue to grow in size and anger. Every bombing campaign and every shot fired produces a wave of reaction against them which resonates around the world.
Every single day since the bombing began demonstrations have been taking place, often targeting US or British embassies, and often attacked by riot police attempting to defend US interests.
The messages on the placards repeat themselves in every city; 'Stop This War For Oil, 'Bush and Blair Out of the Gulf", and 'Regime change in Britain and the US.' Australia
Hundreds of anti-war protesters tried to storm Australia's parliament on Monday, March 24, demanding the withdrawal of Australian troops fighting in Iraq.
Police managed to hold back activists who were calling on Australian Prime Minister John Howard to come outside and address them.
One man was arrested after he tried to break through the police lines and two protesters eluded authorities, draping a flag over the coat of arms above the entrance to parliament.
Inside parliament, Howard did his best to ignore a woman bellowing anti-war chants from the public gallery throughout his remarks during question time.
He was labelled a murderer with blood
on his hands by another dozen protesters in
the chamber before they were dragged
away by security guards.
Howard has been one of the staunchest
allies of the United States in its stance
against Baghdad and committed about
2,000 Australian troops to the U.S.-led war
in Iraq.
But he has not had the support of the
Australian public, who believe his decision
to join the war was undemocratic.
Across the US, in unlikely places such as •
Hollywood, people are demonstrating against Bush and against media lies. On March 22 thousands of antiwar activists besieged the CNN building in downtown Hollywood to protest against the news coverage.
One placard said; 'Collateral damage has a face'. Across US campuses, students are staging protests and sit-ins. In front of the White House, tens of thousands expressed their "shock", not "awe", at the bombing of Baghdad, others rallied across the United States and in Canada.
Many marchers referred to televised images of the thundering bombing of Baghdad that U.S. military planners called a campaign to "shock and awe" Iraqi defenders.
Major anti-war demonstrations and rallies were also held in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities around the country.
One former servicellar, Michael Schmidt of Peoria, Illinois, explained why he was demonstrating in Washington. "I heard a four-year-old girl damn near died over there."
Protesters outside the White House chanted as dozens of police officers in black riot gear stood between them and the presidential mansion. Below (right) US police get heavy with anti-war protest in San Francisco
In Istanbul, Turkey, demonstrators continue to march against imperialist aggression. This is the reason the Turkish government have been unable to fully back the invasion. Similarty, in France, Chirac's opposition to war is down to the huge protests across every major city in France. Pakistan
Protests continued on the fifth day running across Pakistan. The latest protests came a day after some 200,000 people swarmed the streets in the eastern city of Lahore. Ecuador
In Quito, Ecuador, protestors gathered throughout the day outside the US embassy. Egypt
More than 12,000 students rallied on two university campuses on Monday, March 24, to protest against the U.S.-led war on Iraq as it entered its fifth day.
"U.S.-Israel: one enemy," shouted the
demonstrators Some of the demonstrators denounced U.S. President George W. Bush
as a "pig."
Another 2,000 students demonstrated at
Ain Shams University in northeastern Cairo, Above: Iranian women on an officially sponsored march through Teheran. Below (left) Brazilian protestor in Sao Paolo said organisers, reporting massive police deployment to prevent the students from going out on to the streets.
Students and opposition activists have been staging daily demonstrations against the war, defying emergency laws that have been in force nearly constantly in Egypt since 1967.
Over 800 anti-war demonstrators have been arrested so far by police. Italy
Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators flocked onto city streets on Saturday March 22 for the third consecutive day of protest against the U.S.-led bombardment of Iraq.
In Rome, around 30,000 demonstrators gathered in the central Piazza del Populo. A peace march through the southern port city of Naples ended at the gates of NATO's Southern Command headquarters in the Bagnoli quarter, where a U.S. flag was set alight.
Pacifists from unions and anti-globalisation groups carried papier-mâché missiles in
reference to the relentless air assault on Baghdad overnight.
"With this protest, we want to express our disagreement with the policy of the
Berlusconi government and the
autonomous choice of the U.S. to carry out
an unjust war which humanity doesn't
want," one of the organizers said
In Milan, crowds waved flags representing a broad cross section of Italian left-wing
parties as a huge march got underway in the
country's economic capital.
In Spain...
As many as a quarter of a million people
marched through Madrid to protest against
the war on Iraq, calling for the resignation of
Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, who has
strongly supported the U.S.-led campaign
to invade and occupy Iraq.
Crying "No to war!" "Aznar resign!" and
"Murderers!" the demonstrators had wanted to march on the government headquarters in the west of the city, but after authorities refused to grant permission for the
march, proceeded through the centre of the capital
Hundreds of thousands of people also demonstrated in Barcelona, and thousands attended rallies in Bilbao, Santander and Seville. In Germany...
Over 200,000 protested against the occupation of Iraq in rallies across the coun try. Around 40,000 attended a rally in Berlin to denounce a decision by the German government to allow U.S. aircraft to use its airspace and bases
In a demonstration in Frankfurt, Kurdish protesters held up banners bearing slogans criticizing a possible Turkish military intervention in northern Iraq.
They also called for the freeing of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, the head of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party who is serving a life term in a Turkish jail.
The rally in Berlin was the largest of a series of protests across Germany against the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq.
Around 11,000 people demonstrated against the war in the southern city of Nuremberg, 10,000 each in Stuttgart and Hamburg, and 7,000 people outside the US base in Heidelberg
Some 300 demonstrators briefly blocked the main entrance to the Spangdahlem U.S. air base, near the western town of Bitburg which is home to the 52nd fighter wing.
In Gaza City, nearly 10,000 people
demonstrated, chanting their opposition to
the U.S., Britain and their Arab allies.
In northern Lebanon, in the Palestinian
refugee camps of Bared and Baddaoui
thousands of Palestinian school children
demonstrated and called for a boycott of
American goods.
Waving Iraqi and Palestinian flags they
chanted: "With our blood, we will defend
you, Iraq" and "People of Iraq, we are with
you™.
Around 1,000 Syrian and Palestinian students from the Faculty of Letters at
Damascus University took to the streets of
the Syrian capital, chanting: "We will sacrifice ourselves for you, Baghdad."
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