Brenda Stokely is president of AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) District Council 1707 in New York, which represents 23,000 day-care and home-care workers. Her fierce pride in the rank and file of her union is
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Feminist writer and human rights activist Nawal el Sadaawi has announced she will run for president in Egypt's September election. On February 26, President Hosni Mubarak announced that the country's law would be amended to allow more than one
BRISBANE — At workplace meetings held around the country in the early part of February, members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) employed in Centrelink overwhelmingly endorsed a union bargaining position for upcoming negotiations
Peter Boyle
In the first week of April, Austrade, AusAID and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) will be conducting seminars in all major Australian cities "to give Australian companies a detailed understanding of reconstruction
MELBOURNE — Workers and their supporters are continuing to picket the ABM Plastics factory in Braeside. The picket, which began on January 21, is aimed at forcing the company's owner, Abe Waisman, to pay $2.5 million in entitlements such as
The Onondaga Nation filed a lawsuit on March 11 claiming that it owned 8000 square kilometres of land along the New York-Pennsylvania border, including the city of Syracuse. The tribe claims that the land was illegally taken from it through a series
BRISBANE — On March 11, former NSW Builders Labourers Union secretary Jack Mundey addressed a meeting attended by 72 plumbers to discuss the Howard government's planned anti-union legislation.
Mundey told Green Left Weekly, "The important fight
Sam Wainwright, Perth
In the February 26 Western Australian election, the Greens' representation in the Legislative Council (the upper house) dropped from five to two seats, while Labor increased its seats from 13 to 16. The Coalition also
Doug Lorimer
In a March 14 article for the British Guardian, investigative journalist Naomi Klein pointed out that, as the US is increasingly exposed — "Brand USA is in trouble" — as the world's biggest terrorist, it is desperate to rebrand
Frances Daily, St Marys
South Sister, a local icon, tourist destination, recreation area for local residents and source of water for domestic and agricultural/horticultural use, is about to be logged for woodchips.
South Sister forms part of the
More than 130,000 high school students walked out of school to join March 8 rallies protesting a new law restructuring schools. The bill cut the number of subjects that schools guarantee to fund to, in effect, reading, writing, calculating and using
On March 16, the US Senate approved opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, voting 51 to 49 to defeat an attempt to remove ANWR drilling allowance from the budget bill. The oil industry believes that there are billions of gallons
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