APEC Media Roundup: PROTESTS – September 6, 2007 Compiled By Jackson Payne
Links to coverage of the APEC 2007 protests in Sydney this week from media around the Pacific rim.
Media from:
Sydney Morning Herald
Protesters revise march plans
Edmund Tadros
The organisers of a protest against the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit this Saturday have revised their march
plans after police won a court battle over the rally's route. LINK
Greenpeace targets Downer
Stephanie Peatling
The environment group Greenpeace will try to embarrass the Federal Government today by writing to APEC members about
remarks by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Downer. LINK
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The Australian
'Full-scale riot' expected at protest
By Amy Coopes
THERE will probably be a full-scale riot as a result of an anti-APEC protest on Saturday, Sydney's top riot officer has
told a court today. LINK
The Age
NSW riot cops prepare for APEC violence
Police are warning a violent, full-scale riot is "probable" when up to 20,000 anti-APEC protesters march on central
Sydney on Saturday. LINK
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Inymedia Sydney
Protesting APEC
The NSW Supreme Court granted Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione's application for an order to prevent Saturday's
antiwar march moving from Town Hall down George Street, but qualified the decision with statements on people's right to
free speech and assembly. Some reporters continue the media and police beat-up of 'violent protestors'. LINK
Protest Organiser invites Bonesman Bush to Sydney APEC Ghost Dance
APEC Ghost Dance organisers have invited the US President George Bush Jnr. to come shake his bones with them from 5pm on
Friday evening 7 September, near the Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park North. "It was nice of George to apologize for the
trouble his APEC security needs have caused the people of Sydney," said Ghost Dance organiser, Graeme Dunstan. "But if
he really wants to establish a connection with the people of Sydney, the best place for him to do a meet and greet will
be the Ghost Dance; there he will find Bonesmen kin." LINK
AC/DC condemns police action in court that led to march ban.
In court today police named the groups AC/DC, Mutiny, ArterialBlock and the Socialist Party and said that they would be
at the Rallyon Saturday and that this was a reason to refuse permission forSaturdays planned protest route. LINK
Human Rights Observers to help at Stop Bush Coalition march on Saturday
Back in February 2003 police estimate 200,000 Sydney siders protested against George Bush and John Howard and their war
in Iraq. Howard described them as 'a mob' and sounded quite rattled too. His home city rejected him. But in his vanity
he wanted a war and he got one, with hundreds of thousands dead now. As the ALP ex PM Paul Keating pointed out on SBS
Dateline last night "400 were killed just the other week", perhaps referring to a shocking headline in the News Ltd The
Australian, hidden back in the World pages. The only surge really seems to be Iraqi blood when you weed through the
military industrial schmoozing by Bush, Howard, rent a crowd reporters like Devine etc in the press today. LINK
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Green Left
'Every high school an anti-war high school'
Lauren Carol Harris, Sydney
The September 5 student strike against US President George Bush’s visit, initiated by Resistance, has triggered a wave
of anti-war activism on high schools across Sydney. Students from more than 20 high schools, including Mosman High,
Pennant Hills High and North Sydney Girls High, have pledged to walk out of classes to protest Australia’s involvement
in the Iraq war, to call for genuine action against climate change and to defend the right to protest. LINK
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