The question all Australia wants to know –

“Have you got the ticker Johnny, to say No to President Bush?’

This weekend thousands of people across Australia will be asking this question in song.

The song, written in Adelaide by the Green Choir, turns John Howard’s favourite word “ticker” back on him.  Last year he used it to taunt Kym Beazley.  This year we ask it of him – has he got the ticker to say No to President Bush, and to develop independent foreign policy that is genuinely in the interests of Australia?

Marchers sang the song with gusto at the last NOWAR rally on November 2^nd, and Adelaide singer Peter Combe was so taken with it that when he was asked to contribute to the Sydney and Melbourne rallies this weekend, he decided to take the song to them.

So, when Adelaide marchers raise their voice in song on Saturday they will truly be part of a nation-wide protest.

As in the Vietnam protests, music is playing a strong political role.  John Schumann will present once again his classic, “I was Only Nineteen”, and the Trade Union Choir will perform another Green Choir composition “Not in our Name”.  This is based on the international Pledge of Resistance (featured in the NOWAR ad in today’s Advertiser), and is also poised to take off internationally.  Well-known Adelaide Celtic-rock group The Borderers will also be performing, as will the Green Choir.

The music will be at Elder Park from 12 noon, after the march arrives from Victoria Square.

For further information, contact the Green Choir, c/- Bon Darlington, 8376 6253.