The End of Privacy: How Total Surveillance is Becoming a Reality
By Reg Whitaker
Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2000
195 pages.
REVIEW BY ALEXANDER DEL SOL
In The End of Privacy, Reg Whitaker charts the development
of surveillance
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One of those detained by authorities after the June 8 raid on the Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference in Jakarta was Auckland city councillor Maire Leadbeater.
The raid by the police at an international conference in Sawangan near Jakarta on Friday [June 8], and the arrest of 40 of the participants, including 32 foreigners, was bizarre, if not disturbing to the conscience.
You could be forgiven thinking
BY DANI BARLEY
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — The headline on the front page read in big bold letters, "8.14 am. It was over". The US federal government has executed Timothy McVeigh, the man who committed the worst act of terrorism on US soil.
BY STEPHEN MARKS
NEWCASTLE — More than 40 people attended the launch of the Newcastle Socialist Alliance on June 15. Participants included students who had taken part in the M1 stock exchange blockades, trade unionists, Latino workers,
The raid by police on the Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference in Jakarta
on June 8, the brutal militia attack which followed it and the detention
of 32 foreign participants has revealed two disturbing returns to the past.
It has revealed that
BY SARAH STEPHENÂ
Ten years is the maximum penalty for escaping a detention centre
and being “unlawfully at large” — and it is what faces Parviz Eftekhari,
who escaped from Woomera detention centre on June 9.
The escape followed a
Glowing in the dark is also handy
"If you set aside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is really very good." — US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, quoted in the June 12 New York Times.
No snuggles for Little Johnnie
BY VIV MILEY & SUSAN PRICE
Progressive forces from around the world spoke out and took action as soon as news of the police and militia raid on the international solidarity conference spread.
In Canada, snap protests were organised across the
BY STEVE MYERS
For some years now, Russian presidents, Yeltsin and now Putin, have been unable to push a new labour code through the Duma, due to opposition by workers and fears within the Kremlin of a backlash. Putin failed in his last attempt
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
JAKARTA — "Since the police first arrived there was an increasing [number] of [militia] members and we predicted that after the police left, they would attack", said Yahgun, a member of the People's Democratic Party and one of
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
SYDNEY — "What's disgusting? Union busting! What's outrageous? Sweatshop wages!", has been one of the lively chants ringing outside Nike's main Sydney store on George Street every Friday night.
The Sydney pickets are
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