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Guatemala: Massacre investigation breathrough
the National Security Archive’s Guatemala Documentation Project under the US Freedom of Information ... puppet. The rise of popular democracy in the Western Hemisphere — a process spearheaded by Venezuela and ...
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We will fight for our brothers and sisters
first-hand. We talked about the Freedom Ride of 1965, about how some of the same injustices faced by ... pro-intervention agenda of the mainstream media means we don’t hear about the rising incarceration, mental illness ...
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Mass protest — worth the effort?
through periods of rising, then falling, support. Along with this, despite majority public support, none ... said in 1857: "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom ...
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Howard's AWA 'fairness test' a smokescreen
nonmembers covered by a union-negotiated collective agreement. Citing "freedom of association" ... "fairness test", including that it does not compel bosses to offer any pay rise for the life of an ...
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Legislating racism
their personal freedom? The impacts of colonialism, forced assimilation, and dispossession — dislocation ... increased transportation costs as petrol prices rise. And to call it "fresh" is an exaggeration ...
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Rich countries retreat from action on climate change
developing consensus also projected the minimum cut needed by 2050 to be in the range of 80-90% if the rise ... CADTM; ESK-Basque Country; Focus on the Global South; Freedom from Debt Coalition; Friends of the Earth ...
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Cuba: Celebrations of advancing gay rights
follows that a society based on equality would rise to the challenge of extending it to all of its ... on our road to freedom. [Reprinted from http://gaycuba.ca/together.] July 26, 2008 760 World ...
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NEPAL: Beijing pledges to help suppress Maoist rebels
rising military challenge of the Nepalese Maoists. In a March 25 statement, the CPN(M) chairperson ... of individuals". In March 1971, the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party also launched a bloody ...
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Locked-out Boeing workers demand collective agreement
agreement, on the other hand, would include higher guaranteed pay rises, longer leave entitlements, increased ... delegate Adam Szady as saying: "[PM John] Howard says that it's about freedom of choice, well, ...
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VENEZUELA: Chavez accuses US of assassination plot
Endowment for Democracy (as revealed by official documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and ... Mr Bush, because in this era we are living, peoples are rising everywhere, and there is no ...
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Feminist pioneers in the US
"a new world of freedom for women". Women in seances spoke to her "of beatings, of abuse, ... brothels and overcrowded tenements. Piercy's early feminists succumb to and rise above their human and ...
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Dita Sari: defying Reebok and Megawati
workers were demanding a wage rise (from US$1), for an 8-hour day and maternity leave. In seven years, not ... changes for workers", Sari said recently. "Low wages, violations of freedom of association and ...
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How Muhammad Ali became a legend
Ali's rise to fame necessitates giving the audience an impression of the power of the 1960s black ... a Muslim American and a defender of "Operation Enduring Freedom". Ali is an important film above ...
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ANTI-CORPORATE MOVEMENT: The death of a movement? Not likely!
universal values of freedom and human dignity... No sacrifice is too great for Americans to defend those ... given rise to this movement — the outrageous proportions reached by the First World's pillage of ...
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Fortress Europe takes steps to bar refugees, migrants
determination to "create an area of freedom, security and justice in the European Union". It endorsed ... diversionary issue — a scapegoat to distract people's attention from the real causes of rising ...
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GERMANY: 'Peace for the world- pretzels for Bush'
US's rising tariffs on imported steel and farm products and the administration's withdrawal from ... I think that can be in nobody's interest”, and that “the land of freedom was and is the United ...
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Do we fund public schools or war?
is undertaken. The Public Service Association hopes the review will see a further rise in staff ... that the government's education department had breached freedom of information principles and that ...
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A woman's place is in the struggle: Indonesia: An anti-neoliberal women's movement is born
movement in Indonesia emerged in the mid-1980s, along with the rise of the pro-democracy movement ... participation was suppressed and the freedom to organise was cut off completely. Two decades have since passed, ...
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News briefs #1
the freedom bus rides in the 1960s. Aboriginal activist Wayne Wharton added that right now, six ... out of its home of the last 12 years due to the high-rise development proposed for the eastern end of ...
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Save Tassie's forests!
when Lennon was actively involved. Forestry Tasmania has been made exempt from the Freedom of ... rising." This year's World Environment Day, June 5, looks set to be a landmark in the campaign as ...
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Socialist Alliance marks progress
Freedom Socialist Party (US); Workers Democracy (Thailand); MUR (El Salvador); the CPIML-Liberation ... resolution also described the rise of the Green vote as a "welcome indicator of the shift to the left of ...
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Shiela Rowbotham and the 1960s
authentic meaning of "democratic centralism" (freedom of discussion and unity of action) and ... and the '60s rise to their appetising best, highlighting in particular the liberatory stirrings ...
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A compelling look at an enigmatic country
With the economy on the rise and Suharto unwilling to rein in his offspring and cronies, the ... courage and commitment, something which caused him to reflect on just how many freedoms he took for ...
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Rich schools get richer
in Victoria, while delivering a pay rise, only delivers 300 new teacher positions. Education policy, ... The buzzword has become "freedom of choice", translated as "private schooling at public ...
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'Hurricane' Carter: The man they couldn't tame
perspectives and different times without losing the story's thread. Washington rises to the challenge in ... written about Lesra Martin and his role in Carter's fight for freedom. A black, illiterate ...