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Police intimidation fails to prevent anti-war action

BY KIM BULLIMORE SYDNEY — Despite attempts by police to prevent it, an anti-war action in Bankstown's Old Town Plaza on November 16 attracted 80 people. Initiated by the Socialist Alliance and the Canterbury-Bankstown Anti-War Group, the

and ain't i a woman?: US attacks reproductive rights

US delegates dropped a bombshell at the Asian and Pacific Population Conference in late October. They announced that the US would withdraw its support for the"action plan" devised at the 1994 United Nations Population and Development Conference in

Ritter takes on the lies they tell about Iraq

REVIEW BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to KnowWilliam Rivers Pitt interviews Scott RitterAllen and Unwin, 200278 pages, $9.95. A former marine and a member of the Republican Party who voted for George W Bush,

Iraqi asylum seekers offered 'voluntary deportation'

BY TERRICA STRUDWICK & SARAH STEPHEN At the end of September, Abdur Wahab Najim, an Iraqi asylum seeker in Villawood detention centre, was approached by an immigration department official who offered him a passport and claimed that the

Write On: Letters to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly

Embryonic research As the Senate debates embryonic research, it is important to reject the notion that humans have rights simply by virtue of being human. The point of rights is to promote the interests of rights-holders. A never-sentient embryo

UNITED STATES: Why Washington is hungry for oil

BY EVA CHENG "America in the year 2001 faces the most serious energy shortages since the oil embargoes of the 1970s", proclaimed US vice president Dick Cheney's May 2001 national energy policy report to President George Bush. The Cheney report

Erskineville public housing estate saved

BY PIP HINMAN SYDNEY — A concerted campaign for several months by residents and Erskineville Housing Estate tenants forced the NSW state government on November 19 to reject a housing department redevelopment proposal which would have adversely

Ku-ring-gai residents protest inappropriate development

Around 1500 Ku-ring-gai residents were drawn together on November 17 to stand against inappropriate over-development of their municipality, particularly the increasing density of housing. The rally, promoted by Friends of Lindfield, kicked off with folk songs before a variety of speakers took the podium.

Speakers highlighted the inadequate representation that they felt local council members are providing, and voiced their concerns about corruption in the council.