Marcus Pabian, Melbourne
On March 4, 600 rural residents from three shires converged in front of the Victorian parliament to oppose the state Labor government's plans for a toxic waste dump in rural Victoria.
On November 12, the state government
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Anna Weekes, Mas'ha
Hani unlocks a tiny gate embedded between an alarmed fence and an eight-metre-high concrete wall, and ushers the Danish television crew across a military road and quickly into his home.
Two Canadian farmers, and three
Hegemony or Survival: America's quest for global dominanceBy Noam ChomskyAllen & Unwin, 2003$24.95 (pb)
REVIEWED BY JOHN TOGNOLINI
I am lucky enough to have met Noam Chomsky when he was in Sydney, in 1995, when he was defending the East Timorese,
Missed opportunity
Alexander Downer's reference to the anti-war movement as a bunch of Saddam supporters is as amusing as John Howard's reference to the February 14-16 protesters as a "mob". No amount of name-calling by the Howard government will
Gillian Russom, Los Angeles
After four months and 18 days on strike and locked out, grocery workers in Southern California voted on February 28 to accept a new three-year contract. Voting on the contract was confined to a single day, in which the
Sam Pillay
"Bushville" — a shantytown of tents — will greet Republican grandees when they turn up for their August convention in New York.
America's poor and homeless families will use Bushville to highlight President George Bush's attacks
Doug Lorimer
On February 19, UN secretary-general Kofi Annan endorsed of Washington's plan to install a non-elected Iraqi government at the end of June. Iraq's leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, said on February 27 that
Alison Dellit
"The Haitian constitution is working", US President George Bush told the media on March 1. It might seem an odd way to describe a country overrun by armed thugs and, now, foreign troops, and whose elected president has been kidnapped
Barry Weisleder, Toronto
Despite a very modest recovery in the latest opinion polls, the scandal-rocked Liberal Party remains in a quandary over whether to call the Canadian federal election in Spring, or Autumn, or even later. For now, damage
Kerry Vernon, Newcastle
"Working people in this town are under attack from many sides; they need an ally in the local government to help them fend off these attacks", said Geoff Payne, the Socialist Alliance's candidate for lord mayor in the March
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NTEU initiates education campaign
The Victorian division of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) launched a "Cost of education" campaign at its February 28 council meeting. Targeted at schools, community groups, families and other
Rohan Pearce
"A whitewash" is how anti-war activists are describing the report of the parliamentary inquiry into intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD), released on March 1. The warmongers, predictably, greeted the report's
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