WASHINGTON CAN'T DENY IT NOW: WORLD SAYS NO TO BUSH'S WAR
Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7AFRICA, LATIN AMERICA SPEAK
Before this round of demonstrations, Nelson Mandela and others from the prestigious leadership of the anti-apartheid struggle weighed in against U.S. aggression and sparked demonstrations in South Africa. Led by the African National Congress, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the South African Communist Party and other anti-imperialist organizations, thousands of people demonstrated in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Durban. They carried South African, Palestinian and Iraqi flags.
Johannesburg: credit- www.punchdown.org
Cape Town's placards carried the slogans: "By George, Bush is Just an Empty Warhead," "Blix Start Searching Israel," "Let's Make War Against Poverty" and "Behind Every Bush is a Terrorist."
Africa's people stand to suffer from a war on Iraq even if they are not drawn into it, as a rise in the price of oil will further impoverish a population devastated by the collapse of the price of Africa's raw materials in the imperialist-controlled world market.
There were also demonstrations in Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda.
Throughout Latin America, where the workers and farmers have many reasons to protest against U.S. imperialist intervention--like the Free Trade Area of the Americas scheme and Plan Colombia--tens of thousands joined the anti-war day. The largest actions were in Mexico City, Mexico, and Montevideo, Uruguay, with a reported 50,000 in each.
Montevideo: credit- www.punchdown.org
In Brazil more than 100,000 protested altogether in San Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador da Bahia and other cities.
There were also major actions in Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala, Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In Cuba some 10,000 took part in a "tribunal" discussing U.S. crimes, and in Puerto Rico 1,000 people protested both the Iraq war and the U.S. Navy's continued use of Vieques to train its bomber pilots.
San Pualo: credit- www.punchdown.org
EAST ASIA, OCEANIA, NORTH AMERICA
In Southeast Asia, thousands in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, defied police to protest at the U.S. Embassy. Three thousand protested in Bangkok, Thailand, and another 10,000 in Pattani in the south. In Hong Kong, China, and in Taipei in Taiwan, hundreds of Chinese joined with expatriates to say "no war."
Hong Kong: credit- www.punchdown.org
In still-occupied South Korea, the anti-war movement brought out 10,000 to Seoul, where they also called for no U.S. war moves against North Korea.
Seoul: credit- www.punchdown.org
In still-occupied Japan, 25,000 people protested the threats against Iraq on Jan. 14, with thousands taking to the streets of Tokyo the next day. Two thousand in Manila protested U.S. imperialism's attempt to return its military bases to the Philippines, burning a U.S. flag at the demonstration.
Feb. 15 began in New Zealand and Australia, where Prime Minister John Howard is a Bush supporter and has promised Australian ships and troops for the war on Iraq. In Melbourne, 200,000 demonstrated, only to be one- upped by Sydney the following day when 250,000 took to the streets.
left--Melbourne: credit- www.punchdown.org / right--Sydney: credit- www.punchdown.org
Other actions took place in Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and other Australian cities, and in Wellington and Auckland in New Zealand.
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