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University attempt to intimidate students blocked
forum on human rights and the "war on terror" was the former guest at the US military base in ... events or, where the events are outside, just run them without asking anyone. The Japanese Animation ... being used to justify restrictions on free speech and the right to organise. While Muslims have been ...
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Narnia: kingdom for kids, empire for adults
talking animals and perfect examples of English breeding — the Pevensies (Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy). ... right-wing Christian lobby groups. Disney's Narnia offers Lewis's strong stories, computerised ... failing to act on what one knows to be right, that is, the importance of personal integrity and the social ...
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WTO attacking the poor
WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services. These services are human rights that cannot be objects of ... evidenced by the various patents on plants, animals and even human genes. After seven years, the WTO round ... community agriculture. Developing countries have to recover the right to regulate our imports and exports to ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
suffering is not enough. Plants and non-human animals have been modified to make them more valuable to ... simply fascist in their mind-set. Union bashing is right in there with racism, homophobia and religious ... of asylum seekers is an incredibly topical issue and rightly so. How we treat refugees and respond to ...
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BRITAIN: Breakdown leads to new electoral alternative
outbreak involved 114 cases in the first two weeks and several hundreds of thousands of animals are already ... campaigning. Britain's structural decay may not have caused any challenge to Blair from his right — the ... and halting the "onslaught on civil rights"). It also calls for the cancellation of the ...
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Cruelty in refugee prisons revealed
the right to get a new pair of eye-glasses, or have their old ones repaired, unless they were ... a 14-year-old boy sewed his lips together. A 11-year-old girl told Everson, "are we animals that they feed ... "M1 is the next big focus for the refugees' rights campaign". She also implored activists to ...
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and ain't i a woman?: Fighting global violence
established by Serbs where thousands of women were held under inhumane conditions, treated like animals, and ... feminists need to support the refugees' rights campaign, and help stop a war on Iraq. In reclaiming the ... be considered equal. These are fundamental human rights. BY TERRICA STRUDWICK [This is an abridged ...
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NEW ZEALAND: Alliance, Nationals big losers in poll
organisms (including crops, animals and micro-organisms) into the environment as a precondition for ... for an MP via the proportional representation component of MMP. Three small right-wing parties managed ... Dunn won nine MPs. The right-wing monetarist party, Richard Prebble's, also has nine MPs. Labour, ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
2002) and maim millions more every year. The carcasses of small animals they leave in their wake is ... fleeting rights of passage? They leak toxic substances onto roads and parking lots which accounts for 70% ... claims that killing more than 15,000 innocent Iraqis was the right thing to do. Clearly it was wrong and ...
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UNITED STATES: Bush's war on civil liberties
Civil Liberties Union, "an organisation like the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals could ... with a pie." But authorities aren't waiting for any new laws to begin violating civil rights ... the FBI and INS. The politicians may talk about "security." But restrictions on our rights ...
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News briefs
"It's a massive win for workers who want their union rights recognised. The overriding factor in the ... Sector Union. One of three candidates, Eccles convincingly defeated the ALP right candidate David Smith, ... escarpment. The bushland, which is being sold off by BHP, contains many species of rare animals and plants. ...
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Welcome return of War
won significant gains in the mass civil rights struggle since the late '50s. Gospel and soul ... accompanied the mass actions for civil rights. Like the blues, soul music sought "to tell it like it ... listenable, albums with ex-Animal Eric Burdon (Black Man's Burdon was one aptly named album), War created ...
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Jimmy to the rescue
up the pressure on oppressor": "Keep it up right and left/ Keep it up East and West/ Keep ... the nature/ Every single one of us wants to survive/ So we got to do the right things to stay ... Stop you're under arrest/ Stop killing all them animals/ Stop, you are a criminal/ We wanna live, ...
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Moscow authorities spur racism
friends have been "snatched up like animals from the streets, from the metro, and from railway ... limits to refugees." However, some members of the intelligentsia and of human rights organisations ... course violations of human rights, Sobesednik conceded, but this was the price that had to be paid for ...
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Pesticides under review
(NTN) is alerting people to their rights. Although new pesticides are subjected to a fairly rigorous ... concentrated at the top of the food chain. Animals like hawks and sea eagles die from the high concentrations ... other participants in the NTN, Short feels that users of chemicals, like farmers, have a right to good ...
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Mandela: 'A lesson they will never forget'
50,000-strong crowd erupted when Mandela said that the white far right "were given a lesson by the ... right-wingers, mobilised by General Constand Viljoen's Afikaner Volksfront (AVF), entered Bophuthatswana ... of March 11, cars and utes (bakkies as they are called here) full of armed right-wingers from ...
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Why GATT doesn't mean 'free trade'
rights", including the patenting of plant and animal species. Supporters of the new GATT deal claim that ... recognise the intellectual property rights (mainly held by Western and transnational corporations). This is ... the right to retaliate with trade restrictions in the case of alleged "dumping" in their ...
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The battle to stop Jabiluka
the Jabiluka uranium mine. It's a kaleidoscope of colour, people, protest, police, animated ... federal] Land Rights Act has done is provide access... to mining. That it what the Aboriginal Land Rights ... recognition of rights, are in fact only there to provide certainty to industry and to ensure the containment ...
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Asian Dub Foundation still sending a strong signal amid all the noise
Up" documents ever-increasing inequality and injustice and urges people to stand up for their rights ... We need some practical alternatives spelled out and the right people to get them over to the masses. ... modern world. A few years ago, I began to write an article on Korea's "robot rights ...
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How Aboriginal people created Australia-- book provides detailed account of Aboriginal land management
maintained an intricate balance allowing an complex landscape with tens of thousands of species of animals ... culture. Among Aboriginal peoples right across Australia, including Tasmanian Aboriginals, the creation ... to protect that animal or bird. The book contains illustrations of numerous paintings done by early ...
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Afghanistan: Malalai Joya vs Washington's warlords
suspended because I called the Afghan parliament as a stable full of animals. Though I think animals are ... with US dollars. In some cases, both guns and dollars played a role. Even Human Rights Watch has ...
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India: Looming social and environmental disaster
economic zones" (SEZs — geographical areas in which less regulations on labour rights, environmental ... This includes agricultural labourers, animal herders, fruit growers, artisans, small traders and those ... insurance, shopping malls, resorts, hotels, warehouses and even agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry ...
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Genes and profit
than a decade with weakened organisms, those designed for release plants, animals or microbes — have to ... animals and weed species. The Genetic Manipulation Advisory Committee (GMAC) itself acknowledges that, ... therefore has the right to participate in setting the social and environmental priorities of research. The ...
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Write on
more of the usual. So much space was given over to right wing drivel about the urgent need for family ... west's animals eat nearly.5J243>1 55J0>/.5>3 55> of all cereal grains harvested — much of it ... Abolition of Vivisection and Doctors in Britain Against Animal Experiments) leading the cause for the total ...
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Threat of US-driven war is real, but it can be stopped, John Pilger says in new film
nuclear tests, how the people of the Marshall Islands are prodded and probed like test animals and finally ... tens of millions rising out of poverty. However, the film also delves into the human rights abuses that ...