A $5000 dollar reward is being offered to any Auckland University student who can make a successful citizen’s arrest of United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit to the country this weekend.
Auckland University Student Association (AUSA) president David Do said the arrest would be for her role in “overseeing the illegal invasion and continued occupation” of Iraq.
“It is hard enough living as a student in Auckland these days without having a war criminal coming to town, so we thought we’d give our students a chance to make a dent in their student loans and work for global justice at the same time.”
Dr Rice will be in Auckland on July 26, where she will meet with Prime Minister Helen Clark, Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Opposition leader John Key.
She will make her first trip to New Zealand after attending a meeting of the Asean Regional Forum this week in Singapore.
– NZPA
Peace and Justice Post 
STOP THE WAR PROTEST FROM LEFT ALTERNATIVE
September 16, 2008Dr George Barnsby, Sep 14, 2008
Preparations for protest against the war in Iraq, now in its sixth
year, are being made by all organisations opposed to the war. They will continue with protests at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester on 20th September at 12-30am.
On its internal business Left Alternative reports the resignation of
John Lees and Lindsay German from their National Council. The remain, however members of Left Alternative. John has been a tireless member of the officer’s group from the inception of Respect in difficult political circumstances while Lindsey has been our inspirational mayoral candidate in the Greater London elections of both 2004 and 2008.
Another protest is being arranged by People before Profit who are
calling for lobbies of MPs in support of a windfall tax on energy firms which are making multi-millions in profit while implementing huge rises for ordinary people. Has your MP signed the call for a windfall tax? Supporters are also asked to protest at local Tesco’s when profits are announced at the end of the month.
All these are most worthy campaigns and the heat is now building up on Brown now for his opponents to either sack him or leave him be.
This emphasises once again that the only way to be rid of Brown NOW is either a Citizen’s Arrest of Brown inside Parliament or outside it to stop
the slaughter of innocent children and people in Iraq and Afghanistan and bring him to justice before the Court of Human Rights at the Hague for Crimes against Humanity. George Galloway and Ken Purchases have not replied to me asking them to do it, so we might be suggesting that other left militant MPs such as those on Labour Briefing take up the cudgels to end the war and make themselves public heroes by getting Brown and Blair locked up NOW.
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