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More from Hiroshima Day in Melbourne - part 1

pc | 08.08.2006 06:20 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The annual commemoration of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in effect merged with the fourth week of protests over Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza ...

Hiroshima Day in Melbourne
Hiroshima Day in Melbourne

Hiroshima Day in Melbourne
Hiroshima Day in Melbourne

Hiroshima Day in Melbourne
Hiroshima Day in Melbourne

Hiroshima Day in Melbourne
Hiroshima Day in Melbourne

Hiroshima Day in Melbourne
Hiroshima Day in Melbourne

Hiroshima Day in Melbourne
Hiroshima Day in Melbourne

Hiroshima Day in Melbourne
Hiroshima Day in Melbourne

Hiroshima Day in Melbourne
Hiroshima Day in Melbourne


AUSTRALIA: MELBOURNE: The original event was organised by Nuclear Free Australia and the Melbourne Stop the War Coalition under the banner "STAND UP AGAINST WAR AND FOR A NUCLEAR FREE FUTURE

No uranium mining / No attack on Iran / Troops out of Iraq / Global nuclear disarmament", but many other groups were represented both on the platform and in the march. Speakers included Dave Sweeney from ACF, Michaela Stubbs from FoE's Anti-Uranium Collective (FoE's 2006 Radioactive Exposure Tour of SA and the NT has just ended), Kevin Bracken of the MUA, as well as Hillel Freedman of NFA, to name only a few. Groups prominent on the march included the Greens, a sprinkling of unionists, and more informal groupings including anarchists and a Queer bloc. And all around there were Lebanese and Palestinian flags - and some Australian ones, too. In his speech Dave Sweeney pointed out - after rather belatedly acknowledging Aboriginal Australians as the traditional owners of the land - that around the world it has been indigenous peoples who have suffered disproportionately from the pollution and sickness caused by the uranium industry, and there was indeed a solitary Aboriginal flag amongst the rest...

More Photos:

 http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/118867.php

A few links:
 http://www.nukefreeaus.org - Nuclear Free Australia
 http://www.acfonline.org.au - Australian Conservation Foundation
 http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au - Friends of the Earth, Melbourne
 http://www.mapw.org.au - Medical Association for Prevention of War

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More from Hiroshima Day in Melbourne - part2

08.08.2006 07:22

The annual commemoration of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in effect merged with the fourth week of protests over Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza ...

 http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/118855.php

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