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White lies about Black Australia
she emphasises reports of violent treatment of women within Aboriginal society. She counterposes her ... primitive communism, which holds that Aboriginal society was based on shared poverty, depending on the ... when the Aborigines experienced the life of free workers as army labourers during World War II, then ...
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CUBA: Intellectuals launch campaign against US provocations
BY MARCE CAMERON On May 1, 160 foreign intellectuals and artists 鈥 including Nobel Prize winners ... along with Iraq, Iran and North Korea, on Washington's "hit list" of states allegedly ... in the wake of the arrest and imprisonment of 75 Cubans in early April on charges of collaboration ...
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Ten years of ALBA鈥檚 achievements celebrated
domination and instead focuses on sustainable development with social justice, the right of Latin America ... growing power of the United States. When it was founded on December 14, 2004 by Chavez and then-Cuban ... positions. The ALBA countries, as an anti-imperialist bloc, has also made strong statements against US wars ...
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John Pilger: 'Put out more flags'
held in 1938 on the 150th anniversary of the white invasion. Over a thousand Aboriginal men and women ... John Pilger The other day, one of my favourite cinemas closed down. The boards went up on the ... modern Australia's pride in the arts. On the contrary, the closure reflected a more general shutting ...
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Why free speech matters
a advocate of free speech. He is the author of Slapping on the Writs: Defamation, Developers and Community ... Activism. On May 8, he addressed a rally in Brunswick, Melbourne, which called on the local Barkly Square ... shopping centre to end its ban on community stalls. Barkly Square is a privately owned shopping mall. The ...
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3 million Palestinian refugees wait
study on Palestinian refugees, written by three Palestinian scholars, Bilal Shakhsheer, Waheed Qirsh and ... war and those fleeing the 1967 war. The first group is known simply as "refugees" while the ... 300,000 refugees. This insistence on a significantly lower estimate, and the ongoing deliberations on who ...
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In the spirit of Eureka
governments crack down on unionists, working women and young people, more people are looking for an ... Sue Bull The Eureka Stockade at Ballarat on December 3, 1854, has become the most celebrated ... up and be counted. So, before he knew it, Brett was elected as a CFMEU steward on a building site. ...
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Reporting from the other side in Aceh
"embedded" with the TNI. Nessen is one of the few to have reported on Indonesia's dirty war 鈥 from the ... offensive" in Aceh is failing, he will be speaking in Sydney on December 5. Nessen's account of his trip ... end of April: end the armed resistance and give up the demand for independence or face all-out war ...
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Ratzinger: the Rottweiler as Pope
hope that the Catholic Church may become more liberal. Catholic progressives look back longingly on the ... "disastrous" and "catastrophic" ideas. Ratzinger is on record as believing that Vatican II was ... allowed priests to run their lives, women ignoring their most important functions as virgins and mothers ...
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Dodging lunatics with black moustaches
passengers on board, it crashes, breaking off its nose-cone and direction finder. With an entire world of ... industrialised and their foreheads stamped with 'masses'". On board, class struggle and revolution ... threaten, but the engineers discover World War I, "feeding passengers into the boiler to keep up steam. ...
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Activists condemn plan to make NSW a 'police state'
concern is that the majority opposition to the war on Iraq and to attacks on workers' rights might be ... September. The government introduced legislation into NSW parliament on June 7 that will give police ... impunity. This is significant because on previous occasions courts have found that police have acted ...
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Australian newsbites
people to protest against the war on Iraq. She was involved in the campaign for free education, has ... HOBART 鈥 A recent Newspoll on woodchipping commissioned by Doctors for Forests has drawn angry ... old-growth woodchipping in Tasmania. Tasmanian Greens senator Bob Brown unveiled the poll on January 28, ...
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From Wounded Knee to Chiapas
Salvador in the 1980s). The program allegedly forms part of the "war on drugs". The Mexican news ... Huey helicopters to that country are supposed to be used by GAFE for fighting the war on drugs. Are any ... Clinton wants an investigation and the government of Ernesto Zedillo doesn't want anyone on the ...
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For peace and justice in Afghanistan
MOHAMMED ISSA is president of the Afghan Watan Party. He was interviewed in Brussels on February ... in Afghanistan (APA). The APA was formed in order to bring the war to an end and establish ... now members of the alliance. On February 7, the six parties held their congress under the banner of ...
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United States: Behind anti-Muslim hysteria
fear. Since his election as President in 2008 Obama rarely uses the phrase 鈥war on terrorism鈥. For this ... politicians running to the corners and lining up behind the war mongers. At the time of the 2003 US invasion ... Pakistan and Afghanistan took place in the last 18 months than the entire Bush war effort. In his speech to ...
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Da Vinci Code drivel
festival on May 17 to universal critical panning. The response to the book was somewhat better, but no-one ... women can live together in a spiritual rather than a physical union. As for the poor old Knights ... Priory's aim was to put him "on the throne of Europe", and this gives a clue to its real nature ...
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Human survival
Organisation in Geneva on May 14, when he was presented with the WHO's Health for All medal. The world ... genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by ... hunger and poverty on our planet. The children who die and could be saved are almost 100% poor, and of ...
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The popular struggle against the Musharraf dictatorship
a report on the LPP fourth conference in December 2007, the struggles of women, sugar mill workers, ... of the US-led war in Afghanistan, and simultaneously escalating its war into Pakistan, we are likely ... women's movements across Pakistan. As Tariq notes in his acknowledgements, the LPP was almost alone among ...
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How Filipinos pay for US bases
Philippines Immigration Commission last January, on charges of trafficking women to a trader in Hong Kong. ... usually on the clash between US strategic interests and Filipino nationalism. But there is another side to ... reports in the first of two articles on a visit to the area around a major base. Five hours' drive ...
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Save Kimberley campaign at critical point
Kimberly in Western Australia's north reached a critical point on July 4 as police arrested dozens of ... light, waking 100 people who had camped overnight. Seven police cars had been held up in the pre-dawn on ... intention of allowing clearing and drilling workers or machinery through. 鈥淭hey stood on principle. ...
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PALESTINE: Eight months of resistance
has escalated its attacks on the occupied territories of West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian death ... terror and devastation inflicted on the Palestinian population. The intention is to weaken the resolve of ... refugees to return to their homeland. On April 27, fighting erupted between the Israeli army and armed ...
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Sri Lanka: Deported asylum seekers face torture, jail
Muttur in Trincomalee, the war-hit town in the east. He was one of 254 asylum seekers on the ... Gunesekaram greeted me, as we met in person for the first time. His mother died of a heart attack on September ... all, unless my mother was not greatly ill鈥, he said. However, on arrival Sujendran couldn鈥檛 go straight ...
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Challenging racism in Australia
Anti-racism Indigenous Jay Fletcher A new magazine focused on Aboriginal rights, Tracker, was ... launched in Sydney by the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) on April 4. The monthly ... that have UN status, so we鈥檙e always over in the UN, New York or Geneva, advocating on issues much ...
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Letters to the Editor
terrorism: End the war and support a Palestinian state. My protest on July 5 鈥 interrupting business-as-usual ... at an academic symposium on law and liberty in the "War on Terror" 鈥 was an act of defiance ... 鈥 denied by any humans of the possibility of engaging on an equal basis with humans in the economic, civil ...
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Population is not the problem
An Essay on the Principle of Population, the question of the 鈥渃arrying capacity鈥 of the planet has ... people for the world鈥檚 problems. The idea that a growing population means a greater pressure on natural ... perceived wisdom about population on its head. From the publication of his first writings, Malthus鈥 ideas ...