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  1. VIETNAM: Conference issues call for campaign on Agent Orange

    Vietnam's capital on March 28-29, drew some 150 participants, about half of them from outside Vietnam. After ... during the Vietnam War. From 1961 to 1970, the US military sprayed 77 million litres (8800 tonnes) of the ... end of the war in 1975. AO and other dioxin-based herbicides or "defoliants", as they were ...

  2. Write On: Letters to the Editor

    painted on the wall." Dan Lualdi pointed to the hypocrisy of the council's decision: "There ... Mountains Gazette at <editorial.bmgazette@ruralpress.com> explaining why you oppose the ban on ... Blackheath, NSW Marriage Kim Linden (Write On, GLW #662) writes: "The issue of the reasons behind the ...

  3. BRITAIN: Peace protesters are the new terrorists

    trespass. On this occasion, both women were detained by military police for 12 hours and then charged. The ... Independent. Both women are long-time activists, including at the Greenham Common women's peace camp 25 ... provisions. The act makes it an offence for any protester to trespass on a military base. In this case, Boyes ...

  4. Muslim-Iraqi-Murri unity against racism

    else", Salam El-Merebi, an activist with Al-Nisa, a Muslim women's youth group, told a forum at the ... Activist Centre on April 6. The Unity Against Racism meeting, organised by the Socialist Alliance and ... from the Iraqi Solidarity Committee, drew the links between war and racism, "driven by a new wave ...

  5. PAKISTAN: WSF unites against military, fundamentalism

    opening ceremony or at seminars on political Islam, globalisation and war, the attendance was huge. But ... TerraViva on March 26. "While I don't like to damp down enthusiasm, expectations should not be ... NGOs, made for a potent mix of radical politics and activity. The discussions on socialism and what was ...

  6. Bill of rights and participatory democracy

    "foreign aid", and attacks on the rights of women and indigenous people. Such policies have been ... discussion of the practical implications, mainly reliance on the (reasonable) proposition that "everyone ... decades of post-war Aboriginal, migrant and popular struggle to defeat and reject the White Australia ...