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1. Remembering Sabra and Shatila

   Lebanon)." The similarities between the 1982 and 2006 Israeli wars on Lebanon are stark: the same targeting ... report also discussed the impact of the recent and ongoing US-Israeli wars on the people of the Middle ... war on Lebanon (16,000 refugees displaced), the events surrounding the destruction of Nahr el-Bared ...

2. Referendum for East Timor!

   The following is abridged from a statement calling for a referendum on self-determination and ... independence for East Timor issued by JOSE RAMOS HORTA on behalf of the National Council for Timorese ... Resistance (CNRT) on July 21. The national political commission of the CNRT has followed with concern the ...

3. Impressive start for Sydney Film Festival

   to draw out some history and current issues in relation to the effects of World War I on the small ... By Kath Gelber The Sydney Film Festival got off to an impressive start on June 10 with the ... two young women as they try to deal with their own family situations. The self-destruction that can ...

4. ... and ain't i a woman?: IYF: plaything of politicians and media

   assisting the modern family, such as increased child-care provisions for working women. But this area was ... right-wing Coalition MPs. It is named after the pre-war Prime Minister Joseph Lyons; the group regards ... forum has a core membership of a dozen, claims a loose membership of 31 and has half the Coalition on ...

5. Australia Day

   which, on the standards by which Nazis [were] judged after World War II, could only be described as ... horrendous war crimes". The "protection" era removed traditional land which had been owned by ... government stations on which they had no chance of survival. Thousands of Koori children were taken from ...

6. UNITED STATES: Military families applaud Fahrenheit 9/11

   based on reviews I read. But still, I can't remember seeing a movie that has affected me as much. ... Fayetteville Observer in North Carolina, where Fort Bragg is, that the movie changed her opinion of the war in ... Iraq. "All this movie did was open my eyes a little more to what's really going on", she ...

7. Afghans to be sent back to danger

   signed the deal with a minister of the corrupt Karzai regime on January 17. Afghan Minister for Refugees ... and Repatriation Dr Jamaher Anwary was in Sydney to take part in talks on “people smuggling”. The ... illegitimate and Afghanistan was still a war zone. The next day, more than 300 Afghan refugees in Curtin ...

8. Sri Lanka: Tamil leader says ethnic conflict has 'deepened'

   for refugee status — on the pretext that the war is now over so there is no reason the flee. ... Democracy National liberation Chris Slee “Contrary to popular belief, the end of the war has ... Northern Provincial Council (NPC) in Sri Lanka, addressing an academic conference in capital, Colombo, on ...

9. Israeli academic condemns ethnic cleansing

   Tony Iltis Israel's war on Gaza, its continued colonisation of the West Bank, and its ... Bank and Gaza in the war of 1967. Reinhart told the meeting, which was organised by Women for ... establishment of Zionist state, Israeli academic Tanya Reinhart told 250-strong meeting in Melbourne on October ...

10. Thousands oppose G20

    mosquitos, he said, adding that if World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz, an architect of the US war on Iraq who was ... meeting on November 18. The rally opposed the neoliberal and militarist agenda of the meeting, which ... protesters clashed with police while attempting to get closer to the meeting. Establishment media seized on ...

11. Free speech under attack in Brunswick

    and refugees; real action on climate change; opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and so on ... dead location — and impose oppressive insurance conditions to boot. On February 20, GLW supporters ... and a half we had collected about 80 signatures on a petition. Management called police, who shut the ...

12. Revolts show Arab world's true face

    praying for our success in Iraq.” Commenting on the recent protests, Bush’s former defence secretary, ... Donald Rumsfeld, told US foreign policy magazine The Cable on February 14 — two days after the fall of ... is Egypt’s example that has spread to Iraq, not vice versa. On February 17, the Washington Post said: ...

13. Sri Lanka not safe for Tamils

    should not grant asylum to any people from Sri Lanka on the grounds that the civil war is over. On ... International solidarity Timothy Lawson Chanel Bearder The Sri Lankan civil war ended in 2009 and ... in the war’s aftermath there has been a plethora of serious human rights abuses perpetrated by the ...

14. Letter from the US: Patrick Buchanan's agenda

    the slavocracy, he openly comes out for the South in the Civil War: "The War Between the States ... 1950s and '60s, reprinting FBI smears of Martin Luther King. On the system of legal segregation ... Nixon's White House in 1969, he urged Nixon not to visit "the Widow King" on the first ...

15. News briefs #4

    people as "illegal" arrivals. Hassan Ghulam, who linked refugee policy to the war on Iraq, ... a single-issue candidate. He declared himself in staunch opposition to the war on Iraq and the detention of ... Town Hall on September 30. Election candidates and MPs addressed the 100-strong meeting, including ...

16. Cleary gaining support in Wills

    By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — Although there will be 22 candidates on the ballot paper when the Wills ... by-election takes place on April 11, one progressive independent, Coburg football coach Phil Cleary, believes ... momentum". Perhaps borrowing from his experience on the football field, Cleary's campaign strategy is ...

17. Stephen Langford: When injustice becomes law resistance becomes duty

    tribute to Will Saunders and David Burgess who wrote NO WAR on the side of the Opera House in 2003. They ... OMID R.I.P. Gadigal Country/Sydney Refugee rights activist Stephen Langford was at Waverley Court on ... June 29 facing charges for writing "Omid" on the electorate office of Prime Minister Malcolm ...

18. Save Pentridge Prison's social heritage

    Bolton Protesters gathered outside the former Pentridge Prison on January 16 to say “no” to the planned ... would set a precedent for no limits on the height of buildings in central Coburg. Protesters gathered ... outside the former Pentridge Prison on January 16 to say “no” to the planned residential Pentridge tower. ...

19. Unite to stop racism

    the name of the "war on terror" and by the Howard government's racist policies. [To ... The following statement was issued by the socialist youth organisation Resistance on December 13 ... in response to the racist attacks in Cronulla on December 11. In response to the weekend's ...

20. Australian people want justice for Assange, Melbourne rally planned

    Alliance (WACA) will hold a mass rally on the steps of the State Library in Melbourne on July 1st at noon ...

21. Hollywood’s 'cultural moment' takes aim at young girls

    and Divergent films demonstrated that young women want to see strong female characters on screen and ... issued a joint press release on April 22 saying they were releasing a tsunami of marketing targeted at ... featuring strong, athletic bodies that stand on their own in heroic poses”, movies with interconnected plot ...

22. Venezuelan rich eating well, Basque executive shows

    calls from friends and relatives in Spain telling him that there was no food in Venezuela. So on May 20, ... he began publishing photos on Facebook of supermarkets in upscale sectors of Caracas filled with ... country within a country where there are no poor, women and children are blond, go to exclusive schools, ...

23. Venezuela: Asian socialists condemn new US-backed coup

    Caribbean Socialist Alliance The statement below was released on February 17 by socialist groups in the ... assault on the country, creating an international debate around a supposed humanitarian crisis, ... a political coup involving officials who would turn on the government, and finally a military coup that would ...

24. Invasion Day: Tens of thousands say ‘No pride in genocide’

    protesters as fleas and published a couple of pages of people superimposed on what looked like a war zone. ... told the thousands on the streets for the Invasion Day march from Redfern to Chippendale on January ... going on today. Unless Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people stand up — like we are doing today ...

25. Opposition grows to radioactive waste dump in Flinders Ranges

    in South Australia's Flinders Ranges gathered on June 24 in Port Augusta to voice their ... women's site, is of immense cultural significance for the Adnyamathanha people and has been proven to be ...

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