SYDNEY — In lively scenes reminiscent of the 1990s' campaign for East Timor's freedom, about 100 protesters — many of them Acehnese — gathered outside the Indonesian consulate here on April 21 to demand the Indonesian military leave Aceh and a
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BY SEAN HEALY
The decision to site the World Trade Organisation's next ministerial conference in the repressive emirate of Qatar wasn't only intended to prevent mass demonstrations. It was also designed to split opponents of a new trade round into
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY When I first heard about the idea of the Socialist Alliance,
these old bones straightened up a bit. I wanted to know more about it.
I wanted to be able to participate with tens of thousands of others to
change the
BY MALIK MIAH
In mid-March the United States Census Bureau released its official count for the US population. There are 281,421,906 people, as compared to 253,979,140 in 1990. Reflecting a historic trend, non-Hispanic whites declined from 75% to
BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — The April release of the NSW Labor government's "Building the Future" report has generated a community backlash not seen since former NSW Coalition education minister Terry Metherell took the axe to public education in
REVIEW BY KATHY FAIRFAX
Aceh: The People's StruggleProduced by Actively Radical Television, SydneySend $24 to ARTV, 73-75 Princess Highway, St Peters, NSW, 2044Phone (02) 9565 5522
The people of Aceh, in the far north-west of the Indonesian
BY JIM GREEN
The best excuse that Western corporate polluters and their political allies have devised to justify their efforts to wreck the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions is that it does not mandate reductions in the countries of the
BY JOHN McGILL
ADELAIDE — An attempt to sack maintenance workers employed at Mobil's Port Stanvac plant in South Australia was exposed by the Australian on April 12. Mobil is the Australian subsidiary of US-owned oil giant ExxonMobil.
According
BY NORM DIXON
The Pacific tourist Mecca of Honolulu is to be the next focus of demonstrations against the international capitalist financial institutions — in this case the Asian Development Bank. The ADB's board of governors is to meet at the
BY SIBYLLE KACZOREK
In a country oppressed for 400 years by colonial Portugal, then brutalised by 24 years of Indonesian military rule, and now suffering from dire poverty, the issues of women have long been considered secondary. But now East
BY JO BROWN
MELBOURNE — The North has an ecological debt to the South that must be paid, Friends of the Earth (FoE) International chairperson Ricardo Navarro told a public meeting here on April 18.
The meeting, "Global environmentalism in the
BY PATRICIA CORCORAN
Refugees are demanding to be freed from their imprisonment in immigration detention centres around the country and from the fear of being deported back to persecution. They are demanding protection and sanctuary. Here are 10
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