SYDNEY — On November 23, Zanny Begg was stopped by police while installing a work, Checkpoint, for the Blacktown Art Gallery's "Out of Gallery" project.
Begg explained that she was "creating 10 'checkpoints' for 'weapons of mass distraction' in
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Bill Mason, Brisbane
"Resistance is a just response to occupation; it takes various forms, including armed struggle", Louay Alzaher, representing the Iraq Solidarity Committee, told a public forum on the theme "Iraq in crisis" on November 22.
Rohan Pearce
According to a November 24 Boston Globe report, the Fallujah resistance has been led by "an electrician and a mosque preacher, both natives of the community". Yet the wave of violence and terror unleashed by the US-led occupation
Karen Fletcher
In September 1851, a year after the colony of Victoria was formed, 75-year-old John Dunlop found gold under the wattle trees at Ballarat.
By then the Australian colonies were already alight with gold fever. Earlier that year an
NT police photo of Douglas Scott (#19) shows an injury that could not have been inflicted by the soft sheet during hanging as depicted in other police photos. The existence of the injury was not reported and is still denied by Dr Kevin Lee.
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UNITED STATES: Costa Ricans sue chemical companies
Thousands of Costa Rican banana farmers have launched a lawsuit against Shell Chemical Co, Dow Chemical, Dole Food Company, Chiquita Brands International and Fresh Del Monte Produce. The farmers
James Balowski, Jakarta
The new government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has barely been in office one month but has already broken a key election promises — to seek a peaceful solution to the prolonged conflict in Indonesia's
Just a couple of weeks ago, on November 11, anti-nuclear whistleblower Mordecai Vanunu was re-arrested in Jerusalem by Israeli police. The Socialist Alliance has joined the call for his immediate release, and the removal of all restrictions on his
Tony Iltis, Melbourne
On November 24, peace activist Reta Kaur was acquitted in the Melbourne Magistrates Court of criminal damage after she wrote "The killing has started" in red paint and placed red hand prints on two statues outside the US
The Korean Federation of Trade Unions pulled off a one-day strike on November 26, in protest at a new bill that will attack the rights of temporary workers. The federation estimated that 600,000 workers participated in the strikem, which closed
Despite the US Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v Wade ruling that it is a violation of a woman's constitutional right to privacy for any US public authority to ban abortion, the US government bans the performance of abortions at all US military medical
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
In an unprecedented move, Letty Scott has brought private criminal charges against three NT prison officers — Barry Medley, Michael Lawson and Harold Robertson — for the assault and murder of her husband Douglas Scott on
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