THAILAND: Villagers seize dam, demand justice
VILLAGE OF THE POOR, northern Thailand — It's early morning in the Kaeng Tana National Park and I'm on the verandah of a guesthouse overlooking the wide brown Moon River, just above its confluence
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UNITED STATES: Fox 'violated whistle-blower act'
After a three-year fight to clear their names, Jane Akre and Steve Wilson won a partial victory on August 18 against former employer Fox TV. A Tampa, Florida, jury found that Akre was fired by Fox
Refugee detention centres have to go!
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — Chanting "Refugees yes, racism no, detention centres have got to go" and "Free the refugees now!", more than 1500 people marched on the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre on
DILI — Its 4.45pm and the heat is stifling. There is a crowd of students at the door, smiling at me hopefully. Some have travelled miles on foot, on top of buses and in carts to get here. Word had spread that English courses are being offered at
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
MELBOURNE — The Victorian Trades Hall Council will endorse and participate in three events associated with protests against the September 11-13 World Economic Forum (WEF) summit here — but the major event, the start of the
Lucas Heights reactor from 'Dodgy brothers'
BY JIM GREEN
The federal Coalition government has been embarrassed by revelations about Investigaciones Aplicadas (Invap), the Argentinean company contracted to build a nuclear reactor in the southern
Yelling abuse or winning refugee rights
COMMENT BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — A protest at a Sydney University Law Society forum on August 24, which featured federal immigration minister Philip Ruddock, has raised questions about how the movement
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — Romawaty Sinaga, the international officer of the militant Indonesian National Front for Workers Struggle (FNPBI), in Australia to meet other trade unionists, has appealed for greater assistance for the emerging independent
DSP, Resistance in the thick of it
BY CHRIS SPINDLER
MELBOURNE — The September 11 protests here against the multinationals' World Economic Forum have gathered enormous steam; a diverse range of groups and individuals which have helped to turn
Olympics torch met by activists
BY NICK FREDMAN
LISMORE — Amidst the surreal atmosphere created by chariots, giant video screens and corporate trucks and displays, 30 activists used the opportunity presented by the Olympic torch's passage here
S11 hits regional Victoria
BY JACQUIE MOON
GEELONG — With only two weeks to go until the S11 protests hit Melbourne, Victoria's regional residents are jumping on board the actions against the World Economic Forum (WEF). Geelong for Global
Mal returns to form
'Tis a delightful irony of Australian politics that Malcolm Fraser should reinvent himself as a radical. Anyone who has been cohabiting with the man within the four walls of Australia these last so many years knows that Big
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