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Reuters (with additional matrial by SMH). 19 March 2003. Anti-war Greenpeace barricades Aussie PM's home. CANBERRA -- Greenpeace activists dressed as U.N. peacekeepers blockaded the official residence of the Australian prime minister on Wednesday to protest against his decision to join in any U.S.-led attack on Iraq. Wearing blue berets and green fatigues, around a dozen anti-war campaigners from the environmental pressure group chained themselves under U.N.-lookalike four-wheel-drive vehicles blocking the entrances to Prime Minister John Howard's home. The protest prevented Howard leaving for nearby Parliament House by car, forcing him instead to use a pedestrian gate to reach a waiting car outside. Dressed in shorts, T-shirt and running shoes, he shook the hand of a protester who approached to berate him for supporting U.S. President George W. Bush. "Greenpeace has placed the prime minister under symbolic house arrest to convey the message to the Australian public that the activities of pre-emptively striking Iraq are immoral, illegal and the Australian public doesn't want it," Greenpeace campaigner Shane Rattenbury said in the capital Canberra. "It is not our war." Cars passing on a nearby road honked their horns in apparent support of the protesters, who waved banners branding Howard a "war criminal" or proclaiming: "Howard's war a bloody outrage." None of the protesters were charged, although four were taken into custody to sign undertakings not to return. A federal police spokeswoman said she did not know whether security at the prime minister's residence would be upgraded. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ProletarianNews http://www.utopia2000.org --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bdn7KI.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^================================================================
