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BY JENNY LONG SYDNEY — Palestine's supporters have continued to protest against Israel's brutality, and the Australian government's unwillingness to oppose it. After almost daily vigils, many at the Israeli consulate, activists met on April 10 to
I am going to plant peace in the desertI am going to plant hearts and hands togetherIn the desert of my blank pageI am going to draw a peace dove in the sky of WoomeraI am going to draw an open gate for the detention centre. I am going to draw a
BY ROHAN PEARCE The brutality of the Israeli government toward Palestinians should be no surprise to anyone aware of the background of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Sharon was born in Kfar Mala in 1928 and joined the Haganah, a military
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK & SAM KING ROCKHAMPTON — At a 2000-strong mass meeting on April 13, meatworkers locked out by Consolidated Meat Groups (CMG) voted unanimously to reject a new proposed enterprise bargaining agreement, after the Queensland
BY ROHAN PEARCE  The rather prosaic sounding “Jewish settlements” within the Occupied Territories are well-armed virtual fortresses, designed to legitimise Israeli sovereignty over large areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The
and ain't I a woman?: Still fighting for equal pay Thirty-two years after Australian law first demanded equal pay for equal work, women are still receiving just two-thirds the average weekly pay of men. According to the Australian Bureau of
SYDNEY — Grab a hankie and get set for some serious laughter at New Theatre. Stop laughing, this is serious celebrates 70 years of political revue at New Theatre. It will be an evening of the songs, singers and musicians who brought you last
BY EVA CHENG On April 8, thousands of workers gathered again in numbing cold at the Tieren Square in the north-eastern oil city of Daqing, taking their almost daily protests since March 1 into their sixth week. PetroChina Co., which owns most of
Abortion I just read Pamela Valemont's letter (GLW #485) in which she describes how, through being "united in the political struggle" as we all are, she also happens "to believe very strongly that abortion enslaves women..." I also have that
BY FLORENCIA BELVEDERE JOHANNESBURG — After having participated in march upon march to protest against evictions and electricity and water cut-offs, more than 1000 Soweto residents decided at an April 5 public meeting that Johannesburg's African
BY ALISON DELLIT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission's inaugural policy conference, held March 25-26 in Canberra, should have been a chance to reflect on a decade of struggle by Australia's Indigenous people. Instead, the federal
On May 1 last year, May Day was reclaimed as a day of struggle for the oppressed and against the corporate rich. Thousands of demonstrators blockaded stock exchanges around Australia. A key goal of M1 was to promote the globalisation of solidarity,