Alex Bainbridge
Socialist Alliance member Kamala Emanuel was labelled one of Tasmania's "top ten protesters" by the March 29 Mercury, alongside the likes of Greens Senator Bob Brown, gay rights activist Rodney Croome and Gardening Australia
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America's Military Today: The Challenge of MilitarismBy Tod EnsignNew Press, 2004430 pages, $37
Will They Ever Trust Us Again? Letters from the War ZoneBy Michael MooreSimon and Schuster, 2004218 pages, $25
REVIEW BY ERIC RUDER
Since September
I saw the pricks pricking balloonsI saw them seizing kitesthey were protecting ignorance for the sake of all uptights.They all wore coppers' uniformsthey all had coppers' minds,barely a brain cell between them,these are John Howard's times.When
The Cuban embassy in Bolivia announced on April 4 that Cuba would award 100 university scholarships to poor Bolivian young people. The bulletin explained that the program was part of Cuba's policy of international solidarity and collaboration. There
Jim Green
Have the nuclear industry and its supporters suddenly gained an environmental consciousness? While they're not planning to close their dangerous, polluting reactors nor begin dealing responsibly with their legacy of toxic radioactive
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
The re-autopsy of the body of Douglas Scott has found further evidence that the Aboriginal man was tortured and murdered in the Northern Territory's Berrimah prison on July 5, 1985.
Douglas Scott's widow, Letty, has fought
Resistance: A History of the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance Volume 1: 1965-72By John PercyResistance Books, Sydney 2005338 pages, $29.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY JIM MCILROY
This is an important and timely book, given the transitional period the
On April 2, hundreds of people across Britain joined protests organised by asylum seekers facing deportation from that country. Actions were held in Glasgow, London, Nottingham, Oxford, Canterbury and Manchester, where more than 700 marched. Three
Farida Iqbal, Wollongong
On April 4, queer rights activist Annaliese Constable appeared in court under the charge of trespass. Constable led the 2004 campaign at Wollongong University for a safe queer space.
The existing campus queer space was a
On April 6, members of the People's Democratic Party in Jakarta protested against Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, demanding his government be replaced. Yudhoyono has begun increasing the price of fuel, which is already causing price
Karl Miller,
Melbourne
More than 80 people turned up to the Victorian
state conference of the Socialist Alliance, the theme of which
was "Organising a community and trade union fight-back
against Howard's new attacks". This included around
On February 18, the Israeli government set up an x-ray machine at the Rafah International Crossing Point, and forced all Palestinians trying to leave Gaza that way to submit to an enhanced x-ray process, that included taking naked photographs. The
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