ADELAIDE — Fifty people gathered on the steps of Parliament House on November 28, surrounding a coffin shrouded with a black cloth declaring "Free speech", to protest against Howard's new "anti-terror" laws. Organised by the socialist youth
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REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Who cares about Bufo perigelenes, the golden toad of Costa Rica? We all should, argues Australian
Sami Ramadani was for many years an exile from his native Iraq as a political refugee from Saddam Hussein’s regime. Today, he is an outspoken opponent of the U.S. invasion and occupation. At an international antiwar conference in London in
Chris Williams, Wollongong
When Fred Moore was called up to the Wollongong Entertainment Centre stage during the November 15 mass meeting against PM John Howard's WorkChoices laws, every single person present — close to 10,000 — spontaneously
On November 30, actions and meetings took place across the US calling on California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency to Stan Tookie Williams, including a 1000-strong protest outside San Quentin Prison. Williams is scheduled to be
Sue Bull, Ballarat
Staff at the University of Ballarat have rejected a second non-union enterprise bargaining agreement proposed by management. In a November 22-23 ballot, staff voted 401 to 323 to "reject", with a large number not voting.
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On December 1, South Africa's Constitutional Court unanimously ruled that same-sex marriages have equal status with those between men and women. The court stayed its ruling for one year, so that parliament may amend a 1961 marriage law to reflect the
Melbourne's 3CR Community Radio is celebrating Australia's long history of creative resistance with a calendar featuring a collage of photographs from the lens of Australian activists. With a radical event listed for each day and photographs of
John 'Briggs' Bomba
I was among 120 people who were arrested on the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)-led Action Against Poverty demonstration on November 8. Hundreds of people had protested against spiralling levels of poverty.
Those
Doug Lorimer
With a growing majority of US voters favouring the rapid withdrawal of US troops from Washington's failed counter-insurgency war in Iraq, and many in his own Republican Party worried about a voter backlash in the 2006 mid-term
This an abridged version of the speech by Gillian Myers-Brittain from the Hunter Regional Violence Prevention Unit at the first Reclaim the Night rally and march in Maitland on October 28. Sixteen days of activism for the elimination of violence
Eva Cheng
In response to the moral outrage among broad Â鶹´«Ã½ of the populations of developed capitalist countries at the growing inequality of wealth and living standards between the rich "First World" countries and poor "Third World" countries,
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