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1. Resistance grows to Labor’s home demolitions

   is a “war on the homeless community”, she said. At Waterloo South, 150 public housing tenants are ... a bid to stay in empty houses, with the NSW  Supreme Court ruling  on May 21 that the government could ... defending the site against evictions and needless demolitions”.  Meanwhile, elderly women Esther and Nellie ...

2. Pro-Palestine protesters take their message to federal parliament

   on Gaza Israel's war on Lebanon Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) Ngunnawal/Canberra ... Twelve months after Israel launched its brutal war on Palestine, 300 people took their anti-war message ... asylum after the war on Iraq. “We call on the government to accept more Palestinian refugees, stop ...

3. NSW government under scrutiny for strip searches, 'war on drugs'

   Democracy Rachel Evans Police forces, police powers and policing War on drugs drug dogs Sniff Off ... Gadigal Country/Sydney The campaign for justice and compensation for the victims of the fake “war on ... Responsibilities) Act 2002 on November 11 to: end routine strip searching of women prisoners; prohibit strip ...

4. Genocide condemned on Tamil Remembrance Day

   Remembrance Day on May 16. In 2009, the Sri Lankan military turned the beach of Mullivaikal into a war zone as ... Haigh, a former diplomat, said the Australian government “didn’t want to report on the war against the ... from the Tamil Refugee Council said the war on Tamils was continuing. “There were so many atrocities. ...

5. Call for justice for murdered Kurdish freedom fighters slain in Paris

   Anti-racism Democracy Imperialism & war Rachel Evans Democratic Kurdish Community Centre (NSW, ... DKCC) Kurdish National Congress Gadigal Country/Sydney A solidarity action on January 9 called for ... on January 9, 2013. It was organised by the Democratic Kurdish Community Centre. Actions was ...

6. Socialist candidate: 'System change urgently needed'

   incensed by the Iraq war in 1991 and I came across Direct Action and then 91������̳. When I was a young ... I went to Cuba later on, inspired by the prospect of revolution in Latin America and across the world. ... and against the militarization and threat of war, including the threat posed by AUKUS and nuclear ...

7. Tamil activists speak out for rights here and in Sri Lanka

   refugees and activists Kalyani Inpakumar and Renuga Inpakumar, who fled the Sinhalese war, are campaigning ... hundreds of women were raped.  Sinhala inmates, assisted by prison guards, gouged out the eyes of Tamil ... political prisoners, slaughtering 37 prisoners on July 25 that year. Another 18 prisoners were killed two ...

8. 43rd Mardi Gras returns to its protest roots

   One Nation NSW MP Mark Latham; to decriminalise sex work; and to end the war on drugs. Showing ... attacks on gays, women and blacks.” He said that pink washing corporations had taken over Mardi Gras, ... Oxford Street on March 6, taking the event back to its protest roots. The NSW Police had tried, but ...

9. Rally for free speech condemns AFP raids

   involvement in the war in Afghanistan. “If it wasn’t for the AFP raid on the ABC offices to collect evidence ... in the trial of army lawyer David McBride, the war on Afghanistan may still be lawyer and ... Australia into the war on Iraq. “Australia remains a part of the US-led occupation forces in Afghanistan, ...

10. Wiradyuri community fights desecration of sacred land

    Bathurst 1000 motor racing track. On top of Wahluu lies the quiet, regal McPhillamy Park — Wiradyuri ... women’s land — with its box-gum grassy woodlands, a children’s playground, roaming kangaroos, sacred ... areas where only women were allowed. “There is an area there where women handed over the young boys to ...

11. Sydney prepares for Trump visit

    anti-racist and anti-war activists, unionists, students and Greens MPs launched a protest alliance on July 25 ... North America Imperialism & war Rachel Evans Gadigal Country/Sydney A meeting of 80 ... Guinea, possibly on November 19. Simone White, a union activist who helped facilitate the meeting, said ...

12. Rally called against military build up in Asia 

    Sydney Stop the War Coalition, Friends of "Comfort Women" in Sydney, Construction Forestry ... International solidarity Imperialism & war Rachel Evans North Korea missiles military buildup ... Donald Trump Gadigal Country/Sydney War drums are beating louder in Asia. North Korea launched another ...

13. As strip searches rise so does anger at police abuse

    strip-searching women prisoners — has been ignored by the “tough-on-crime” state Labor government. Refugees in ... crisis on Manus Island, 600 men were taking part in daily protests against the shutdown of the Lombrum ... Warringah MP Tony Abbott on November 10, to which Peter Dutton, then the Minister for Home Affairs, had been ...

14. Producing a troublemaker's diary

    author of a number of books including a recent anthology entitled On The Fly! Hobo Literature and Songs, ... the 2019 diary. What inspires you to do this work? On a personal level, I find history fascinating and ... involved by focusing on actions that involved a lot of humour at the expense of the rich and powerful, that ...

15. Eyewitness account of police riot against peaceful Muslim protest in Australia

    Middle East now, would it? More on why US war crimes are behind Muslim, and Middle East anger here. ... Anti-racism Democracy Imperialism & war Rachel Evans Police forces, police powers and policing ... a small but engaging rally against internet spying on September 15, organised by the Pirate Party and ...

16. Equal marriage and Bradley Manning are both big issues

    Imperialism & war LGBTIQ Rachel Evans Karl Hand More than 1000 Sydneysiders hit the streets on ... involved in the campaign will go on to strive for even greater victories, like an end to war, poverty and ... parade in support of gay marriage filled the city centre. The police looked on benignly. It was ...

17. Grassroots upset Labor in Sydney University elections

    campaigns against Abbott’s attacks on education, the environment, women rights and his war-mongering. “There ... a significant margin. University newspaper Honi Soit reported on September 25 that Blakeney had won every voting ... student housing, free and expanded services on campus, more scholarships for disadvantaged students, and ...

18. No pride in Australia's homophobic anti-refugee policies

    displaced by war, poverty and climate change than at any point in recorded history. The current number of ... refugees has exceeded those displaced by World War I and World War II combined. About 60 million people ... became refugees in 2015 alone. Many refugees fleeing war and poverty are lesbian, gay, bisexual, ...

19. Two centuries of troublemaking

    interviews The Chaser on its great APEC hoax and gleans wisdom from the women behind the John Howard ... the Network Against Prohibition, campaigning against the "war on drugs"; the gay male order ... graffiti artists BUGA-UP? Want the low-down on the Chaser's APEC stunt or an insight into ...

20. Behind the victory against prison torture in Turkey

    fighting colonisation." After World War I, Turkey was invaded by France and England. "This ... of Turkey's ruling elite using Marshall Plan funding in the aftermath of World War II. ... revolutionary forces physically — but not ideologically. Courageously, 1 million people marched in Istanbul on ...

21. Behind the victory against prison torture in Turkey

    fighting colonisation." After World War I, Turkey was invaded by France and England. "This ... of Turkey's ruling elite using Marshall Plan funding in the aftermath of World War II. ... revolutionary forces physically — but not ideologically. Courageously, 1 million people marched in Istanbul on ...

22. How the Cuban Revolution developed democracy

    conservatism of the Creole elite. However, on the eve of a Cuban victory in 1898, the US entered the war and ... distorted by the US propaganda offensive. This book is significant and should be on every ... First War of Independence failed due to the division in its leadership. August chronicles the 1895 ...

23. Protest against seven years of NT intervention

    into Mutijulu and they declared war on our people. Thanks to John Pilger’s film Utopia which exposed ... date, a protest was held outside Alice Springs courthouse on June 21, demanding an end to the ... properly our way.” Maurice Ryan, Chair of CLC, said: “I was on the basics card for 5 years — I always wear ...