Kate Durham gave the following speech to an August 27 Sydney meeting on refugees and detention. She has been an outspoken critic of the Pacific solution, under which asylum seekers attempting to reach Australia are housed in makeshift camps outside
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Kim Bullimore, West Bank
At the height of the 18-day military offensive in Gaza, which has resulted in at least 136 Palestinians being killed, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's senior adviser, Dov Weisglass, revealed that Israel's much-touted
Leslie Feinberg, New York
"We have called on the anti-war and peace movements to join us on October 17 and they are coming by the tens of thousands", Million Worker March leader Clarence Thomas explains, "because the war in Iraq, just like the
Alex Bainbridge, Hobart
Despite claiming his plan would protect forests and jobs, Prime Minister John Howard's October 9 election victory means that high-conservation-value forests in Tasmania will continue to be destroyed while timber industry
Stuart Munckton& Sarah Stephen
The federal election result does not amount to an endorsement of the warmongering and racist polices of the Coalition.
The election was not a referendum on Australia's involvement in the unpopular and disastrous
Eva Cheng
Hong Kong's recently elected pro-worker parliamentarian Leung Kwok-Hung, known as Long Hair, has overcome one threat to his elected position, only to have more descend.
After being elected to the Legislative Council (the territory's
Sarah Stephen
Sharif, a Bedoon (stateless person) from Kuwait, spent three years in detention in Australia and had his asylum claim rejected. The Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) argued that he could live
BY BILL NEVINS
David Rovics, the US's most radical folksinger, stepped onstage in Albuquerque on October 2 wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the face of George Bush and the caption "International Terrorist". The audience applauded wildly.
Rovics
"These terrorists are serious, they're deadly and they know nothing except trying to kill. I understand that. That's why I will never stop at anything to hunt down and kill the terrorists." — John Kerry, St. Louis debate, October 8.
"[I]t is very
INDIA — Villages condemn political killings
On October 1, a meeting of several hundred elected village representatives in Patna, capital of Bihar state, condemned the increasing number of killings of leading members of the Communist Party of
Coming out of the October 9 federal elections, it seems that Family First candidate Steven Fielding may have the balance of power in the Senate, after receiving just 42,560 votes, because most parties, including Labor and the Democrats, preferenced
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