BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
The vision of V-Day is a world where women are free from violence: a "V-World" where women and girls will be "allowed to be born in China, India and Korea", "safe at parties on college campuses", "keeping their clitorises in
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"[Author David] Frum describes a meeting in the Oval Office last September with five clergymen... 'You know', Bush told them, 'I had a drinking problem. Right now I should be in a bar in Texas, not the Oval Office. There is
BY JOHN MORRIS
SYDNEY — With the commencement of the secondary school year, an imminent teachers' salaries and conditions dispute and school-support staffing levels in review, the lead-up to the NSW election on March 22 will be a period of
SYDNEY — At 8am on January 31, Dean Jefferys and Marlene Obeid scaled the Sydney Opera House to display three huge banners in protest at the Australian government's support for a US attack on Iraq. The banners read: "No war against Iraq, No
BY LEE SUSTAR
PORTO ALEGRE — At the first World Social Forum (WSF) in 2001, delegates assembled to challenge the elite World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with a live debate via videoconference.
"[T]he best gift that the 2000 corporate
BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO — On January 25, several hundred people took to the streets of Montreal, Quebec, to defend the nearly 1000 non-status Algerians facing imminent deportation from Canada.
The protest action was the most recent in a broad
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BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
MELBOURNE — At a public meeting, entitled "Counting the Cost of War", held by the Victorian Peace Network on January 29 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's Storey Hall, a number of speakers highlighted what war
BY KELLIA RAMARES
Even as US President George Bush threatens to invade Iraq, claiming that Saddam Hussein is hiding biological weapons, Washington is hypocritically expanding its own biowarfare research programs.
The US government plans to
BY BILL MASON &TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — In an extraordinary move against food-irradiation protesters, the Queensland Labor government, through its Department of State Development, has taken out charges in the Supreme Court against an individual
BY RALF SCHARMANN
DARWIN — Traditional owners in several Top End communities have offered sanctuary to 84 Darwin-based East Timorese asylum seekers who are facing deportation.
Marie Munkara, traditional owner of Cape Fourcroy on Bathurst Island
BY NICK FREDMAN & MATT EGAN
KYOGLE — In one of several recent anti-war actions in the area, around 3000 people marched down the main street of Coffs Harbour on February 2. Exceeding organisers expectations, the crowd took over the town's main
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