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Artists and activists are not criminals

The NSW state government wants to jail people as young as 13 for carrying a can of spray paint. Anyone with a spray can and no 鈥渓egitimate reason鈥 could face up to six months in prison

Queensland abortion arrests: defend the right to choose

Many Queenslanders assume abortion is legal, since 14,000 terminations occur every year in the state.

Germany: Twenty years since the fall of the Wall

Here in Berlin, radio and TV are celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago so intensively there鈥檚 hardly a moment for the weather report, which, unfortunately for all the planned events, turned out nasty and rainy.

Time to take a stand for refugees

On November 15, Indonesian authorities said they had shot and wounded two Afghan refugees they said were trying to escape after their boat was intercepted three days earlier.

Skills minister fails to convince students

A group of 10 TAFE students from Bendigo and Dandenong met with the Victorian minister for skills and workplace participation, Jacinta Allan, at her Bendigo office on November 6. The meeting was arranged after a student protest weeks earlier.

'Welcome refugees'

鈥淲elcome refugees鈥, 鈥淣o Indonesian solution鈥 and 鈥淏ring the Tamils to Australia鈥, were the main slogans for at a rally organised by the Refugee Action Coalition outside the immigration department on November 9. It followed a rally a week earlier.

Two centuries of troublemaking

How to Make Trouble and Influence People By Iain McIntyre Breakdown Press, 2009 270 pages, $29.95 Available from >

Hundreds attend Sri Lankan rights meeting

More than 200 people, many from the Tamil community, attended a public meeting at Monash University on November 10 called 鈥淪ri Lanka: Human rights issues and media representation鈥.

Venezuela: Chavez denounces war threat as unions organise

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared on November 8 that his country is prepared to defend itself against a possible act of aggression from Colombia or the United States.

The SIEVX remembered

Thirty-six artworks based on "A Certain Maritime Incident 鈥 the Sinking of the SIEVX" By Nathalie Haymann Kidogo Arthouse, Fishermans' Harbour (off Mews Road), Fremantle, WA Until November 24, 10 am - 4 pm

Hundreds protest to save ferries

SYDNEY 鈥 Three hundred people crowded into Balmain Town Hall on November 7 to protest against the state Labor government鈥檚 threats to privatise Sydney鈥檚 ferries. The public meeting was organised by the Save our Sydney Ferries (SOS) campaign.

Chris Harman: 1942-2009

Chris Harman, a leading British socialist and author of dozens of books and pamphlets on politics, economics, history and the Marxist tradition, died of a heart attack on November 6 at the age of 67.