AUSTRALIA: MELB: Thousands of people packed Bourke Street mall near the GPO on Friday afternoon to demonstrate against racism and to listen to handfuls of people speak about its sources in corporate media and parliament as well the atrocities in Cronulla, war zones and torture facilities in particular Guantanamo Bay.

Speakers who drew attention to John Howard's speech during the Tampa incident where he proclaimed "We decide who comes into this country and the circumstances in which they come" and the similarity between the events in Cronulla where people took arbitrary control of beaches in Sydney and forcefully decided who enters them and allegedly wore t-shirts that read "ETHNIC CLEANSING UNIT".

The lively crowd then migrated to Liberal HQ to target the Liberal Party as a main source of inciting racism in society via government propaganda.

Speakers asked people to continue their public opposition to such issues and urged people to a lunchtime picnic/protest at the State Library on Sunday. The event on Friday was part of many events being planned to highlight the effects of racism and war in society.

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