Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil FireBy Jack DoyleEnvironmental Health Fund, BostonAvailable for free download at <http://www.shellfacts.com>Hard copies can be ordered from Gary Cohen, Environmental Health Fund, 41
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Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit
of Labor's Last Century
by Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, Robin DG Kelley
Beacon Press, 2001
174 pages, $34.50 (pb)
Three Strikes: Labor's Heartland Losses and What They Mean
Anti-war activists around the world have been inspired by two train drivers who, on January 8, refused to drive a freight train from Glasgow to the Glen Douglas NATO base on Scotland's west coast. The drivers believed the train was carrying
BY CHRIS LATHAM
In 2002, 5836 people joined the Australian Defence Force (ADF) as
regular members — about 700 more than joined in 2001. The vast majority
of them were young people between the ages of 18 and 24.
While no survey has been taken
[The following letter was sent to Australian human rights groups on January 2 by an Afghan asylum seeker imprisoned in Topside camp on Nauru.] Since December 24, the detainees of State House detention [one of the two detention
BY BRONWYN JENNINGS
GEELONG — One hundred people attended a January 18 "picnic for peace" on the Geelong waterfront, initiated by the Geelong Greens.
Federal ALP member for Geelong, Gavin O'Connor spoke out against a war on Iraq outlining the
BY SALLY BROWN
APOLLO BAY — "With around 400 women, men and children marching along the Great Ocean Road in solidarity chanting 'No blood for oil' and 'Australia does not want this war', this rally is not only the first rural town to have a no
JAMES GIUGNI made the front page of the December 21 Sydney Morning
Herald after a creative writing response in his final English exam,
dealing with the frustration of a detained refugee, almost resulted in
him not gaining his Higher School
Old McBush, IEAE Oh!
"And then the North Koreans made a decision ... to ignore international ... agreements that they had reached, and start building potential nuclear weapons, enriching uranium. And now they are ... in the process of kicking out
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The state Labor government has ignored the January 1 deadline — imposed on it by the Tasmania Together consultation process — for ending clear-felling in some forests classified as "high conservation value". Many
Freedom of information?
On December 16, [ABC journalist] Geraldine Doogue interviewed an Australian National University lecturer about the situation in Aceh. Though Geraldine's questions were incisive and to the point, the answers were evasive
BY JODY BETZIEN
MELBOURNE — Around 600 workers from Grocon's five construction sites and two construction yards staged a four-hour stop-work meeting on January 17 to determine what industrial action would be taken to pressure the company into
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