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1. National Aboriginal Alliance: New independent political voice

   intervention" is a cynical attempt to subject our people to further genocide. •Many of the socio-economic ... Following a meeting in Alice Springs on September 12-14, attended by some 100 Aboriginal people ... Pat Turner said the meeting had laid the foundations of something important. "It is something we ...

2. John Pilger speaks on East Timor

   He quotes a figure of 60,000 East Timorese (10% of the population) killed in the first two months of ... population in 1974 at 406,000. After four years of bombing it was 68,000. This is genocide by any definition ... "with the massacre of 271 young people at the Santa Cruz cemetery on the 12th of November 1991". ...

3. Racist attacks on Indian students increase

   Indians in Australia have been extraordinarily unlucky over the past 12 months, or there is a disturbing ... has a racist history. "They know that this country was founded on the almost complete genocide of ... Peter Robson Bashings of Indian students continue, revealing that despite official statements to ...

4. Michael Franti: 'You can't bomb the world into peace'

   Michael Franti, formerly of the legendary US rap outfit Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and now ... with Spearhead, is not been afraid to tackle the key political issues of the day, such as Third World ... during his recent visit to Perth. In one of their latest songs, Spearhead addresses US President George ...

5. Sri Lanka: Tamils 'still want independent state'

   forms of decision making. Last year, elections for delegates to the TGTE were held in 12 countries. In ... civilians and combatants in the last months of the war in 2009. The report calls for an independent ... Seek prosecution of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. 8. Protect the equality of women ...

6. US plans to divide Latin America frustrated

   Colombian government said that they had the coordinates of Reyes whereabouts for month, during which we can ... place in Colombia at the end of the month could have gone ahead. Such a turn of events would suit ... Federico Fuentes Caracas Reeling from the blow that it received in the aftermath of the Colombian ...

7. East Timor will be free!

   resistance responded? As you know, just over one month ago, Konis Santana, commander in the field of Falintil ... resist the intense aggression of Indonesia, especially in the last 10 to 12 years. Our work from 1975 to ... could never have thought Australia would be the biggest ally of Indonesia in its genocidal policy ...

8. Indigenous women: Welfare quarantine a disaster

   is doing rolling out Howard's intervention. He is continuing the genocidal policy of the stolen ... on the 13th of every month against aspects of the intervention. In March the protests will be at ... Margarita Windisch Peter Robson Barbara Shaw, a resident of the Mount Nancy town camp near Alice ...

9. Write on: Letters to the editor

   months of militant demonstrations, concerts, public meetings, poster runs, leafleting, graffiti ... clean-ups, educational workshops and the distribution of over 12,000 anti-fascist broadsheets built the well ... 25,552. The ordinary taxpayers will suffer if even half of the retrenched 12,776 are unable to obtain ...

10. UNITED STATES: Chickens coming home to roost

    Africans, the genocide of American Indians, the segregation of Jim Crow, and the forced resettlement of ... Manning Marable Immediately following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm ... was an example of the "chickens coming home to roost": by promoting brutality and violence ...

11. Fighting racism on the Cox Peninsula

    for 12 months. An inquiry by the NT ombudsman revealed that "an anonymous telephone call" ... to expose and challenge escalating racism and bigotry here. This is one of the few places in ... has given the Belyuen people a degree of autonomy denied indigenous people in more populated parts of ...

12. PKK leader: Turkey's failed coup and the Kurdish question

    by the putschists. It seems, the chief of the September 12, 1980 military coup, Kenan Evren's ... fighting the biggest war of its 95-year history and carrying out genocidal attacks against the Kurds. ... path, is its policies of genocide and denial against the Kurdish people. In other words it is the ...

13. Baillieu tries to silence protest in Victoria

    must be protected. Millions of people across the Middle East have been protesting for freedom of speech ... criminalise political protest, particularly protest in support of Palestinian human rights. The government is ... trying to shut down Palestine solidarity protests by: The arrest of 19 people for protesting outside ...

14. Australians welcome refugees in their homes

    scheme to release more refugees from detention. From next month, the Australian Homestay Network, the Red ... they had received about 1300 applications. He said they hoped to house about 200 asylum seekers a month ... instead of Serco?” Private prison operator Serco holds the contract to run all of Australia’s refugee ...

15. Aboriginal communities resist government attacks

    up for a rally on November 12 to protect remote communities in the face of federal government ... First People our right to live on our land the way we want to live, as a community of people, protecting ... destroyed. Oombulgurri in the East Kimberley is one example that was bulldozed last month. The community was ...

16. SUDAN: Africa's hidden war

    Bertrand Ramcharan on June 3. For months, aid and human rights agencies have warned of the massive ... attempted genocide been allowed to progress so far? Sudan, a country the size of west Europe, is the site of ... Esther Anderson "The scale of the tragedy in Darfur would be difficult to believe if it were ...

17. Xanana Gusmao: fighting for freedom with words

    all kinds of torture and also remind me constantly of the unforgettable 12 November 1991 [Dili ... cemetery massacre]. What did the peaceful demonstration of 12 November want? To remind Jakarta and to ... was found guilty of plotting against the Indonesian state and illegal possession of firearms, and was ...

18. Tamils not safe under Sri Lankan rule

    presence and … there’s no Tamils in the military. “On top of that, there are 12,000 suspected combatants ... April 9, the Australian Labor Party government, then led by Kevin Rudd, imposed a three-month suspension ... of the processing of refugees from Sri Lanka. On July 6, the Labor government of PM Julia Gillard ...

19. Sudan: Regime tightens grip amid protests

    meagre wages for several months. The NCP’s method of rule ensured a near unanimous vote in favour of ... accused of intensifying its attacks in Darfur during the past two months, while attention has been focused ... Centre for Justice and Peace reported a series of attacks on the opposition in the first month of 2011. ...

20. 'How many kids have you killed today?'

    babies and children. Five thousand children die every month. Hospitals are "denuded of drugs and ... $1.2 million a throw for each of the 67 cruise missiles he has authorised be fired at Iraq. Texas ... The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice By Geoff Simons Macmillan Press, 1998 ...

21. IRAQ: Let's destroy this lethal weapon!

    its Iraqi opposition puppets claim that the genocide of the first six years has stopped. They claim ... it to the Iraqi people. The amount paid a month to a family of five is less than the income the UN ... IRAQ: Let's destroy this lethal weapon! August will witness the 10th anniversary of the ...

22. Pakistan: New drone killings deepen instability

    people on July 16. It brought the number of people killed by US drones in North Waziristan since June 12 ... evidence to the contrary reaches the international media. Before June 12, there had been a six-month ... pretext of combating terrorism, this law allows for detention for two months without having to appear ...

23. IRAQ: Outside extremists bring death and destruction

    Earth, said to be spending up to $5 billion a month on its occupation of Iraq, apparently can not find ... warfare against the people of Iraq. They became, in my view, genocidal in their impact over the years, and ... BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — The "liberation" of Iraq is a cruel joke on a stricken people. ...

24. John Pilger: Cambodia's holocaust remembered, 30 years on

    winner of the 2009 Sydney Peace Prize. Pilger broke the story of the Khmer Rouge genocide in 1979. His ... over Cambodia, what we saw silenced all of us on board. There appeared to be nobody, no movement, not ... even an animal, as if the great population of Asia had stopped at the border. Whole villages were ...

25. Rwandan rebels oppose French invasion

    international relations for Asia and Africa, Dr Ben Rugangazi, said that France was an ally of the genocidal ... the other hand, have singled out for genocide the Tutsi people as well as people of all ethnic groups ... By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — The Rwandan Patriotic Front, on the verge of taking power in the ...

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