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Australian Manufacturing Workers Union food and confectionary division Victorian secretary Bronwyn Halfpenny spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's Sue Bolton about the changes that jailed unionist Craig Johnston brought to the Victorian AMWU branch after he
Peter Maybarduk, Caracas It is nearly impossible to travel in Venezuela without hearing reference to the government's highly popular and controversial health-care initiative that invites Cuban doctors to treat, train and live with working-class
Kim Bullimore, West Bank Israeli occupation forces detained over 40 Israeli peace activists and arrested four at the village of Budrus, west of Ramallah, on December 7. The activists were arrested as they took part in a non-violent solidarity
Dave Riley Palm Island is 70 kilometres north-west of Townsville. The Indigenous settlement was established in 1918 after a cyclone blew away the Hull River reserve near Tully. While it was one of the last settlements to be created under the
Katelyn Mountford, Sydney When Zanny Begg set up 10 life size stencils of checkpoint soldiers around Blacktown for an Out of Gallery exhibit, she had hoped to provoke surprise and empathy for people in Iraq who face checkpoints and soldiers every
Bronwyn Powell, Sydney In February 1965, a group of Sydney University students called Students for Aboriginal Rights, led by Aboriginal students Charles Perkins and Gary Williams, set out in a bus across regional Australia to expose and confront
Kim Bullimore, West Bank Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti was beaten by Israeli occupation forces as he toured the West Bank as part of his election campaign. Barghouti, a leading democracy and civil rights advocate and
Peter Boyle Ern O'Malley is the pen name used by Nige Edwards when he writes a satirical column called "Smoko" for the Online Opinion website. The pen name is a reference to the celebrated hoax of 1944, when a collection of writings from a
A December 6 press release from the Anti-Racist Network has reported gross racial abuse of a Turkish stallholder during a Northern Ireland Police Service raid on unlicensed stalls in Belfast. Musa Gulusen, who has a pending application for a stall
Four refugee supporters have been summoned to face charges of signing false passport statements in relation to escaped asylum seekers attempting to flee Australia to find safe haven in other countries. We the undersigned recognise that
Stuart Munckton At a government-sponsored World Forum of Intellectuals and Artists in Defence of Humanity, held in Caracas on December 2-3, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's radical left-wing president, "pledged to provide an office and resources in
Sarah Stephen, Sydney Sydney's Refugee Action Coalition (RAC) held a meeting on December 6, attended by 25 people, to organise a defence campaign for four refugee supporters charged with helping asylum seekers who escaped from detention obtain