HOBART — Five hundred people rallied to stop logging in old growth forests on April 20. Built at short notice, the sizeable turnout reflected the considerable activism in defence of the forests in recent months. In addition to previously formed
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Woomera reportback #1
PERTH — More than 100 students from three universities — Curtin, Murdoch and the University of Western Australia — heard reports from the Easter protest outside the Woomera refugee detention centre in outback South
BY EVA CHENG
More than 10 million workers across India took part in a general
strike on April 16. The action was taken to resist the anti-worker, neo-liberal
offensive being waged by the Indian government and to oppose the diktats
of the
Immovable
"The Palestinian leader is seen to be just as immovable as his Israeli opposite." — ABC correspondent Jill Colgan, 7.30 Report, April 15, after earlier noting that "Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been held under siege by Israeli
and ain't i a woman?: Raising the alarm about women's health
On newsstands advertising the Melbourne Herald Sun on April 11, the banner headline declared a "Women's Health Alarm". This was a reference to the ruling by the Health Insurance
BY KAREN FLETCHER
HAVANA — In a welcome interruption to the April 13 Saturday night movie, Cuban TV viewers were able to witness the dramatic uprising in Venezuela live via Venezuela's state-owned Venezolana de Television (VT).
Venezolana de
GLW #488 incorrectly reported that at a Brisbane public forum on April 5, Fernando Duque, Oceania representative of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, had stimated that the illegal US 42-year trade embargo had cost Cuba "US$60
BY LARRY DOUGLAS
On April 8, Ray Krone, became the 100th person in the United States since 1973 to be released for a crime that put him on death row.
Krone, 45, was convicted for the 1991 stabbing death of 36-year-old Arizona bartender, Kim
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone 9565 5522. Visit <http://www.channel31.org>
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Villawood detention centre in south-western Sydney is currently the prison of 417 asylum seekers, who are locked behind tall fences and coils of razor wire. Next to the centre are dozens of unused small brick houses, which were
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — “Human capital, the level of knowledge of our people, is
the most important type of capital in Cuba.” Otto Rivero Torres, Cuba's
minister for youth and the first secretary of the Union of Communist Youth,
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — Four drug law reform advocates handed themselves into the Darwin Local Police Office on April 12 to raise awareness of the Northern Territory Labor government's proposed "drug house" legislation.
The four activists,
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