PHOTO: South Africa STANDS UP for Peace, calls bush* a "tiny tyrant"

[diamond14]

“War Against Profits not People”: Anti-War March in Johannesburg
March 19, 2005

"Liberate the USA"

"bush*, the tiny tyrant"















Demonstrators and speakers also made clear that war is not only military. Declaring neoliberalism a “war on humanity”, the marchers pointed out the link between military invasions around the world, and the devastating effects of neoliberal restructuring in South Africa’s townships and informal settlements. Similarly, members of African refugee organizations spoke about the effects of imperialism in their countries and the harsh treatment by the South African state.

“War” the protestors argued “is everywhere: a global war against humanity in which our bodies, the air we breathe, the water that we drink, what we are taught, the stories we tell and are told … become commodities bought and sold in an open market. Whether in the Iraqi killing fields or a prepaid drought in Phiri, Soweto, the logic is the same: the rule of money and the market over all of life – the logic of neoliberalism.”

Celebrating and claiming back life outside the confines of commodification, the demonstration was followed by a festival of poetry and music at the Worker’s Library in New Town.

[RubyDuby in GA]

1. Do you think if we ask nicely that they will come liberate us?

Pretty please with sugar on top?

[diamond14]

2. it's a horror to think what wolfowitz will do to these people if he gets

to be the President of the World Bank.....makes me sick...

[newyawker99]

3. Great pics!

:thumbsup:

[G_j]

4. great pics

thanks :hi:

[Karenina]

5. Kick!

:kick:

[unhappycamper]

6. bump

[katinmn]

7. Kick!

:kick:

[The Kicker]

8. If anyone knows what tyranny looks like

it would be the South Africans.Thanks for continuing the fight for peace and justice South Africa!:kick:

[WilliamPitt]

9. Schiavo