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Women in the Philippines have launched a major campaign for reproductive rights in response to recent offensives against access to contraception and abortion. These offensives were triggered by the United States reintroducing the "global gag" rule
BY SARAH STEPHEN "We chose Australia as a country of justice and freedom", Iranian asylum seekers in Port Hedland detention centre wrote in an open letter to the Australian people on March 14. They were horrified, however, by what they found.
The King of Love is Dead, Martin Luther King Jr, Backlash Blues, Workers World, Monica Moorehead "> Nina Simone: a powerful voice for black liberation BY MONICA MOOREHEAD The world is mourning the tragic loss of African-American vocalist and
BY ALISON DELLIT "The massive number of young people who had the confidence to walk out of school, stand up to their teachers and protest against the war on Iraq was amazing", Kylie Moon told Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly. A leader of the student anti-war
Easy to understand "We're explaining the situation to residents in an easy-to-understand way." — A public relations official of the Tokyo Electric Power company, after the company took all its nuclear reactors off line for testing on April 15
BY KATHERINE BRADSTREET SYDNEY — At a public meeting on May 8, representatives of the Greens, the Democrats and the ALP confirmed that their parties would block further plans to deregulate higher education through education minister Brendan
BY MARY MERKENICH As thousands of high school students walked out of class to oppose the war on Iraq, radio "shock jocks" condemned left-wing teachers and their unions for "imposing" their opposition to the war in Iraq on young students. So do
BY DOUG LORIMER Renowned Australian journalist and film-maker John Pilger has been awarded the 2003 Sophie Prize, one of the world's most generous environment and development prizes, for his work in helping the public to examine the real causes of
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BY JOHN GAUCI SYDNEY — On May 3, 30 people picketed the Manly office of federal MP Tony Abbott to protest against the Howard government's May 13 war budget. Socialist Alliance speaker Anne Picot explained that the Howard government has set
BY ARUN PRADHAN "[Computer] games are potentially the most subversive media forms of our time", Kipper, the initiator of Escape from Woomera, told Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly. Drawing on first-hand testimonies, media reports and government documents, this
KIRKUK — Workers here commemorated May Day for the first time in three decades with a rally held in the garden of the North Oil Company, the northern division of Iraq's state-owned oil industry. The evening rally was attended by 3000 Iraqi Arabs,