An 82-year-old man was evicted from the Labour Party conference on September 28 and then refused re-entry under "terrorism" laws. Foreign secretary Jack Straw told delegates that British troops were in Iraq "for one reason only" — to help the
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Stuart Munckton
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on September 30 that his government had sold its foreign currency holdings, held in US treasury bonds, and deposited them in banks in Europe. According to an October 1 Venezuelanalysis.com
Luke Fomiatti, Sydney
Students are claiming victory after the University of Western Sydney allowed a forum with Iraqi trade unionist Farouk Isma'al to go ahead on September 21 on the Bankstown campus.
They had been told that the forum, to be held
Alex Bainbridge, Hobart
The federal government will allow logging to occur at Recherche Bay, despite including the area on the National Heritage List on October 6.
Recherche Bay was the site of two French landings in 1792-93, notable for the
Doug Lorimer
Despite the fact that in a report to the September 19-24 meeting of the board of governors of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA director-general Mohamed ElBaradei acknowledged that Iran had not breached its obligations
Ray Jackson, Sydney
In reply to written requests to our new premier Morris Iemma and our new minister for Aboriginal affairs Milton Oskopoulos, sent on August 15, the Indigenous Social Justice Association was contacted by the chief of staff of the
Stephen Garvey, Melbourne
One hundred and twenty people attended a forum on September 27 to discuss the treatment of refugees in the global social and political context. Melbourne QC Julian Burnside, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's Sarah Stephen, former Manus
John Pilger, London
Here are questions that are not being asked about the latest twist of a cynical war. Were explosives and a remote-control detonator found in the car of the two British SAS special forces men "rescued" from prison in Basra on
In the article titled "New ACT peace coalition" in 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly #643, Mohammed Berjaoui was mistakenly said to represent the Canberra Islamic Centre. He is in fact a representative of the ACT Islamic Society.From 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, October 12,
On October 16, 1968, two coloured US athletes, Tommy Smith and John Carlos, caused a sensation when they bowed their heads and raised their fists in a Black Power salute during the US national anthem at a medal award ceremony at the Mexico City
On September 28, Tariq Khan, a sociology student who served four years in the US Air Force, was beaten and brutalised by right-wing students and campus police for staging a peaceful protest at a military recruitment table at George Mason University
Roger X.
I was one of those people who was very much involved in my own world until the dawn of my awakening about a year ago. At the time, I was reading various pieces of literature and it was when I drew links between such worlds depicted in
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