A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent ConflictBy Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVallPalgrave, 2000505 pages., $35.00 (pb)
REVIEW BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
A Force More Powerful tells a lot of history: general strikes, boycotts, demonstrations,
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Those who have followed the work of Green Left Weekly cartoonist Chris Kelly will have observed Prime Minister John Howard evolve from a small ugly man into a small ugly Satan (sorry Satan).
Kelly has taken Howard's transition one stage further
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — The NSW Labor government was punished by voters in the September 8 by-election for the western Sydney seat of Auburn. Labor retained the seat, which it had held with a 17% majority, but suffered an 11% swing against
SAN FRANCISCO - On September 11 I woke up at 5.30am as I normally do before going to work at United Airlines. As I was eating breakfast watching the morning TV news, I was shocked to see a huge hole in the side of one of the two towers of the World
BY KEARA COURTNEY
SYDNEY — A strong statement of solidarity with the plight of asylum seekers was made on September 9, when 1500 people gathered to condemn the federal government's policy on refugees. The rally was organised by a coalition of
BY NICK EVERETT
Thousands of Ansett workers have rallied in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to protest the jobs and entitlements they have lost as a result of the aviation giant's collapse.
In Melbourne, 4000 workers from nine different unions
@box text intr = In the days following the September 11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, millions of Australians were glued to their television sets, fixated by horror and aching empathy for the victims.
The disaster could
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BY KAREN FLETCHER
In the wake of the terrorist bombings in New York and Washington there has been pressure to cancel planned protests against the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane next month.
The CHOGM Action Network (CAN) has
BY GREG HARRIS
Most people in the world don't have access to a phone. But if they did, and if they spoke 24 hours a day for the whole year, all those conversations could be carried over the world's telephone cables in a few hours.
This gives an
REVIEW BY MAX WATTS
It is a simple, well-filmed story by Liz Thompson. During a war a man kills his near neighbour. After the war is over, the man is haunted by his deed. He feels deep regret and shame for what he has done. He seeks out the widow,
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — Students and staff from the Bankstown, Campbelltown and Penrith campuses of the University of Western Sydney rallied outside the vice-chancellor's offices at UWS Penrith on September 11. The action was dubbed UWS11.
The
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