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Aboriginal Tent Embassy set to stay

Aboriginal Tent Embassy set to stay BY JENNIFER THOMPSON SYDNEY — With a Land and Environment Court injunction looming, an agreement between police, South Sydney Council and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was reached on August 23 which allows the

Indigenous Americans celebrate unity

Indigenous Americans celebrate unity BY BILL NEVINS ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Turtle Island, Aztlan, the Land of the People: these are all names for the sacred places where the varied indigenous peoples of the Americas thrived for untold

Why Pearson is wrong on Aboriginal welfare

Why Pearson is wrong on Aboriginal welfare BY SIMON BUTLER Former Labor prime minister Ben Chifley was no radical. He was a staunch supporter of the "white Australia policy" and infamously called in the army to break the coalminers' strike in

CUBA: Another shady and sinister story

CUBA: Another shady and sinister story The case of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez, plucked from the Florida straits in November and held against his family's will for eight months until his July return, forced world attention onto US policy towards

Demanding reproductive freedom

Demanding reproductive freedom LISMORE — Twenty-five activists organised by the Southern Cross University Queer Collective held a sit-in at the office of federal National Party MP Ian Causley to oppose the Coalition government's proposed changes

Olympics torch met by activists

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: Trades Hall hesitant

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

Refugee rights petition

Refugee rights petition The human rights of refugees and refugee claimants in Australia are constantly under attack. The government arbitrarily detains asylum seekers who arrive without official documentation, and often keeps them locked up for

THAILAND: Villagers seize dam, demand justice

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

Sacked workers seek action from ALP

Sacked workers seek action from ALP BY MELANIE SJOBERG MELBOURNE — The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian secretary Craig Johnston has called on Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks to intervene to prevent the closure of

S11: Media sell us the rope to hang them

Media sell us the rope to hang them BY JODY BETZIEN MELBOURNE — The planned September 11 protests have become the story of the moment for the corporate media — and the most screaming of the screaming headlines are being devoted to a planned

Howard worried by S11 protests

BY SEAN HEALY Prime Minister John Howard has added his own shrill voice to growing official outrage about the planned September 11 mass protests against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne. He has said that the world's governments "will