Tim Collins, one of the people accused of helping refugees escape from
Woomera, is now out on bail.
This week's stories: US Liberates More Iraqis...To the Joy of the
Australian People...All The News That Fits Editor Blows Own
Trumpet...Quotes of the Week.
US troops killed seven Iraqi women and children at a checkpoint when
their van would not stop as ordered, a US military official said.
(Australian Associated Press, April 1).
Claims that a majority of people now support the government's decision
to go to war without UN backing are wrong, according to a Sydney Morning
Herald survey. The survey found that, while support for the war had
risen, more people oppose the war than support it.
(Australian Associated Press, April 1).
The Community and Public Sector Union has agreed to only buy tshirts
from suppliers who are accredited as not using sweatshop labour.
Previously the CPSU bought tshirts from China and Australia, any of
which could have been made in sweatshop conditions. This follows a
campaign initiated by me.
Quotes of the week:
"The Iraqis are sick people and we are the chemotherapy...I am starting
to hate this country. Wait till I get hold of a friggin' Iraqi. No, I
won't get hold of one. I'll just kill him."
US Corporal Ryan Dupre. Reported in Frontlines (US), March 31.
"Chemical warfare suits had to be worn because of the threat from the
depleted uranium used in the American weapons"
The Guardian (UK). The media and US government generally insist that
depleted uranium is not a health hazard.
The United Nations has passed two resolutions which include depleted
uranium weapons among "weapons of mass or indiscriminate destruction".
Professor Doug Rokke, a former US Army physicist, sees it as "a form of
nuclear weapon that contaminates everything and everyone".
"I've invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us. They
are here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like
nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time when we
have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We
live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious
reasons, whether it is the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange
alerts. We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush. Shame
on you".
Mike Moore, accepting the Oscar for his documentry "Bowling for Columbine".
Most newspapers reported that Moore received cheers and boos in equal
numbers. Moore says that in fact he got a standing ovation, but five
stagehands who were near the microphones all booed loudly, making it
appear to the TV audience that the reaction was mixed.
"I'm fed up with this war in Iraq!!! I wanna go back home!!! I don't
wanna stay here no more!!! I don't wanna die in this war!!! PLZ make
that motherfu--er called Bush to set us free!!! We don't need this
war!!! If I keep stayin' here in Iraq I'm sure very soon I'll be dead! I
don't wanna die!! I wanna live!!! I'm so young yet! FU-- BUSH!!! Please
do something to help me and my friends here in Iraq. We wanna come back
home! Bush is a big bastar-, he drinks our blood".
Anonymous US soldier, in an email.
"The mother held one child after another. Her eight-year-old daughter
had been killed. A small girl, half naked, was cradled in one of the
woman's arms, emitting tearing screams whenever she was moved -- into
the X-ray room, out again, into the treatment room. Her face was ripped
by shrapnel. Another child was in a bed. The doctor lifted the blankets
to reveal a bloody mess of open leg. She howled and screamed as they
tried to clean it, called out to Allah while her mother and aunt held
her. Her head was heavily bandaged and one eye closed and swollen. 'The
skull is also open,' the doctor said."
- Jo Wilding, activist staying in Baghdad.
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