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  1. Protests called against genocide in Sri Lanka

    spoke about how the Sri Lankan army uses rape as a weapon of war. [For details of rallies on May 23, see ... a ceasefire. A protest convoy of 150 cars descended on Parliament House in Canberra on May 12, demanding ... permanent ceasefire." On May 11, 200 people attended a hastily organised protest vigil in Sydney ...

  2. Ten reasons why population control can't stop climate change

    population growth rates in the Third World are a consequence of dire poverty and restrictions on women ... measures we can take to combat climate change is to sharply reduce the number of humans on the planet. This ... wrongly focuses on treating one symptom of an irrational, polluting system rather than dealing with the ...

  3. Creating solutions at World at a Crossroads conference

    "war on terror" was the topic of another major session at the conference. Pip Hinman, from the ... spends 45% of its gross domestic product on the war against the Tamils, they said. They called for more ... Sydney on April 10-12, remarked that the conference could not have been better named. As the world ...

  4. Dick Smith obscures causes of ecological crisis 聽

    a policy priority, and the more you focus on women鈥檚 rights and basic human needs.鈥 Smith does not neglect ... and ecological problems stem from there being too many people on the planet face a special difficulty. ... essential categories of the population.鈥 聽 Millionaire businessperson Dick Smith鈥檚 new book on population, ...

  5. Hope, terror and youth rebellion

    Simon Butler Looking back on the political movements of the '60s and '70s is now ... movements demanding women's equality, queer equality, racial equality and an end to the West's ... wars of aggression and conquest. The modern environmental movement also originates from this time. The ...

  6. Richard Flanagan's timely terrorist

    "war on terror". The need for continuing terrorist threats becomes so acute that terrorists need ... stopped mobilising against the Howard government's drive to war and restrictions on our rights. It is ... an unabashed literary condemnation of the attacks on civil liberties and the "terrorist" ...

  7. Tamils speak out against genocide

    what's going on in the country. It's a matter of urgency at the moment to put an end to this war ... a result of oppressive policies against the Tamil minority on the island, and successive Sri Lankan ... civilians are trapped in a "no-fire zone" on a narrow stretch of land. The zone is under a brutal ...