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Debbie Brennan, a member of Radical Women and the Socialist Alliance said on August 21. "Without ... MELBOURNE — On August 21, Irish Socialist Party parliamentarian Joe Higgins addressed a meeting of ... campaign's success in involving people to prevent garbage services being put on a user-pays basis. Higgins ...
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Forum discusses Lucas Heights, waste dump
Alex Milne, Melbourne On August 16, a public forum held in the Melbourne Town Hall heard speakers ... stop the Jabiluka uranium mine and to stop the proposed nuclear waste dump near Woomera, on land ... Foundation talked about his experiences on an activist road trip with mock radioactive waste. The activists ...
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In brief
BOLIVIA: Landless farmers protest On August 16, thousands of landless peasants began marching from ... prison. He has been accused of participating in the lynching of Ayo Ayo mayor Benjamin Altamirano. On ... fields demanding better land distribution. BRITAIN: 1 in 3 shopkeepers racially harassed On August 17, ...
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East Timor is only asking for a fair go
women are illiterate. The reality of these figures was brought home to me when on my last visit in April ... community was with us once again. I felt so proud on that day that my fellow countrymen and women had ... International Affairs in Canberra on August 2. This is an edited version of her speech. For me as an Australian ...
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Student revolt- It can happen here
They were determined to set up a pirate anti-war station on the roof of the Melbourne University ... been instrumental in stopping imperialist wars like in Vietnam, combating racist attacks on Indigenous ... Empire Times Press, Adelaide, 2003 $30 (pb) On September 27, 1971, five student draft resisters who had ...
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The phenomenon of Fahrenheit 9/11: Does this mean a sea-change?
impact on the people of Britain is said to have helped deter London from entering the Civil War on the ... like rain on a cultural landscape thirsting for the unvarnished truth. People are clamouring to see it ... end of the day on farms and in cities in the US north, reading it aloud and weeping. The book was ...