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  1. In the spirit of Eureka

    governments crack down on unionists, working women and young people, more people are looking for an ... Sue Bull The Eureka Stockade at Ballarat on December 3, 1854, has become the most celebrated ... up and be counted. So, before he knew it, Brett was elected as a CFMEU steward on a building site. ...

  2. Reporting from the other side in Aceh

    "embedded" with the TNI. Nessen is one of the few to have reported on Indonesia's dirty war β€” from the ... offensive" in Aceh is failing, he will be speaking in Sydney on December 5. Nessen's account of his trip ... end of April: end the armed resistance and give up the demand for independence or face all-out war ...

  3. Ratzinger: the Rottweiler as Pope

    hope that the Catholic Church may become more liberal. Catholic progressives look back longingly on the ... "disastrous" and "catastrophic" ideas. Ratzinger is on record as believing that Vatican II was ... allowed priests to run their lives, women ignoring their most important functions as virgins and mothers ...

  4. Dodging lunatics with black moustaches

    passengers on board, it crashes, breaking off its nose-cone and direction finder. With an entire world of ... industrialised and their foreheads stamped with 'masses'". On board, class struggle and revolution ... threaten, but the engineers discover World War I, "feeding passengers into the boiler to keep up steam. ...

  5. Activists condemn plan to make NSW a 'police state'

    concern is that the majority opposition to the war on Iraq and to attacks on workers' rights might be ... September. The government introduced legislation into NSW parliament on June 7 that will give police ... impunity. This is significant because on previous occasions courts have found that police have acted ...

  6. Australian newsbites

    people to protest against the war on Iraq. She was involved in the campaign for free education, has ... HOBART β€” A recent Newspoll on woodchipping commissioned by Doctors for Forests has drawn angry ... old-growth woodchipping in Tasmania. Tasmanian Greens senator Bob Brown unveiled the poll on January 28, ...

  7. From Wounded Knee to Chiapas

    Salvador in the 1980s). The program allegedly forms part of the "war on drugs". The Mexican news ... Huey helicopters to that country are supposed to be used by GAFE for fighting the war on drugs. Are any ... Clinton wants an investigation and the government of Ernesto Zedillo doesn't want anyone on the ...

  8. For peace and justice in Afghanistan

    MOHAMMED ISSA is president of the Afghan Watan Party. He was interviewed in Brussels on February ... in Afghanistan (APA). The APA was formed in order to bring the war to an end and establish ... now members of the alliance. On February 7, the six parties held their congress under the banner of ...

  9. United States: Behind anti-Muslim hysteria

    fear. Since his election as President in 2008 Obama rarely uses the phrase β€œwar on terrorism”. For this ... politicians running to the corners and lining up behind the war mongers. At the time of the 2003 US invasion ... Pakistan and Afghanistan took place in the last 18 months than the entire Bush war effort. In his speech to ...

  10. Da Vinci Code drivel

    festival on May 17 to universal critical panning. The response to the book was somewhat better, but no-one ... women can live together in a spiritual rather than a physical union. As for the poor old Knights ... Priory's aim was to put him "on the throne of Europe", and this gives a clue to its real nature ...

  11. Human survival

    Organisation in Geneva on May 14, when he was presented with the WHO's Health for All medal. The world ... genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by ... hunger and poverty on our planet. The children who die and could be saved are almost 100% poor, and of ...

  12. The popular struggle against the Musharraf dictatorship

    a report on the LPP fourth conference in December 2007, the struggles of women, sugar mill workers, ... of the US-led war in Afghanistan, and simultaneously escalating its war into Pakistan, we are likely ... women's movements across Pakistan. As Tariq notes in his acknowledgements, the LPP was almost alone among ...

  13. How Filipinos pay for US bases

    Philippines Immigration Commission last January, on charges of trafficking women to a trader in Hong Kong. ... usually on the clash between US strategic interests and Filipino nationalism. But there is another side to ... reports in the first of two articles on a visit to the area around a major base. Five hours' drive ...

  14. Save Kimberley campaign at critical point

    Kimberly in Western Australia's north reached a critical point on July 4 as police arrested dozens of ... light, waking 100 people who had camped overnight. Seven police cars had been held up in the pre-dawn on ... intention of allowing clearing and drilling workers or machinery through. β€œThey stood on principle. ...

  15. PALESTINE: Eight months of resistance

    has escalated its attacks on the occupied territories of West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian death ... terror and devastation inflicted on the Palestinian population. The intention is to weaken the resolve of ... refugees to return to their homeland. On April 27, fighting erupted between the Israeli army and armed ...

  16. Sri Lanka: Deported asylum seekers face torture, jail

    Muttur in Trincomalee, the war-hit town in the east. He was one of 254 asylum seekers on the ... Gunesekaram greeted me, as we met in person for the first time. His mother died of a heart attack on September ... all, unless my mother was not greatly ill”, he said. However, on arrival Sujendran couldn’t go straight ...

  17. Letters to the Editor

    terrorism: End the war and support a Palestinian state. My protest on July 5 β€” interrupting business-as-usual ... at an academic symposium on law and liberty in the "War on Terror" β€” was an act of defiance ... β€” denied by any humans of the possibility of engaging on an equal basis with humans in the economic, civil ...

  18. Challenging racism in Australia

    Anti-racism Indigenous Jay Fletcher A new magazine focused on Aboriginal rights, Tracker, was ... launched in Sydney by the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) on April 4. The monthly ... that have UN status, so we’re always over in the UN, New York or Geneva, advocating on issues much ...

  19. Population is not the problem

    An Essay on the Principle of Population, the question of the β€œcarrying capacity” of the planet has ... people for the world’s problems. The idea that a growing population means a greater pressure on natural ... perceived wisdom about population on its head. From the publication of his first writings, Malthus’ ideas ...

  20. Petition: Reject racism – for unity and solidarity

    Anti-racism This public statement was released on October 3 and was initiated by the signatories ... vilification against Muslims and people of Middle Eastern background, who are being targeted for abuse on the ... basis of their clothing and appearance. This reaction has been egged on by media shock jocks and by far ...

  21. Nepalese Maoists set ambitious targets in budget

    Ben Peterson On September 19, Nepal's finance minister and member of the Communist Party of ... Nepal's adult literacy rate is below 50%; the level of illiteracy is worse among women. New schools and ... done to the health-care system during the 10 year war that ended in 2006, and health-care facilities ...

  22. Divide and rule in the Caucasus

    Russian tanks and armoured vehicles attacked Ingush homes on November 2, 1992. The Russian mechanised ... eyewitnesses stated that signs had been painted on houses of Russians and Ossetians in their village, so that ... were cut up and women whose intestines were ripped out. Eyewitnesses also said that Ossetians (who are ...

  23. Songs of rebellion and hope

    Acuna Aguayo's second recital, Beyond Joy, in Sydney on August 12. A largely self-taught musician ... 1973, Acuna suffered the political persecution imposed on so many leftists at the time. She and her ... refugee in 1978. Ten years ago, Acuna began composing her own songs based on these experiences. A number ...

  24. Little-known chapter of Aboriginal history

    Film Festival and later to be screened on ABC-TV, gives an astonishing insight into the life of an East ... post-World War II years. Under the racist official policies of "protection" and then integration, ... Aboriginal women, many of whom were part of the stolen generation, often worked in service in rich households ...

  25. Military dominates at 'aerospace' show

    a day on aerospace equipment and maintenance. Militarism also needs gender stereotypes. Although women ... enticing children to learn about war and be one of the 300,000 expected public visitors. Gold pass stadium ... seats for the six-hour air show are on sale at $95. The display will be the biggest air show held in the ...

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