BY ROHAN PEARCE
As the national May 1 blockades of stock exchanges and other corporate targets approach, M1 activists have begun a big push to build the demonstrations. Since universities resumed this year, more than 1500 students have joined local
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“James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA, dumbfounded many at a guest lecture
when he advanced his theory about a link between skin color and sex drive.”
— Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 25, 2000.
My attention was caught recently by
Friends of the Earth
I thank Jim Green for his article on Friends of the Earth (FoE). His analysis is reasonable of FoE Australia and FoE International, and I applaud him for touching on some of the problems with some (not by any means all) of the
BY JON LAND
Chances are increasingly remote that the Indonesian legal system will bring to justice those responsible for war crimes and human rights abuses committed before, during and after East Timor's August 1999 referendum. Any trial that does
BY SUE BOLAND
Many people said it at the time of the 1998 election, many more are now saying it but still the government, and even the official "opposition", still deny the truth: no amount of compensation or exemptions can ever make the goods and
BY SUE BULL
GEELONG — People in rural and regional Victoria, hit hard by policies such as privatisation and deregulation, will get a chance to show their anger at corporate globalisation, thanks to plans by local activists to organise a united
Invisible War: Depleted Uranium and the politics of radiationSBS, April 3, 8.30pm
REVIEW BY JIM GREEN
Invisible War, produced by the French company Canal Plus and released in February last year, investigates the use of depleted uranium (DU)
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — A meeting on March 19 to discuss decriminalisation of abortion in Queensland attracted interest from many quarters, including 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ of the Labor Party.
The abortion issue has come back onto the political agenda
Though the stated objectives of Plan Colombia are to end the 30-plus-year-old civil war that has cost the lives of more than 35,000 Colombians and to end the production of cocaine and heroin, there may be a simpler reality: oil.
BY GAIL LORD
SYDNEY — In case you missed it, March 21 was the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. To draw public attention to the day, Amnesty International organised a protest action outside the
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — In the absence of a local stock exchange, the M1 Alliance here has decided to blockade the offices of the Northern Territory Chamber of Commerce and Industry, due to its anti-worker stance and its self-declared role as
BY NICOLE HILDER
WOLLONGONG — Wollongong University Resistance Club injected radical politics into an otherwise inane annual general meeting of the students representative council on March 20. Instead of actively building the meeting, the SRC set
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