Rohan Pearce
The New York-based Human Rights Watch has called for the US government to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the role US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA head George Tenet played in the torture of detainees
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Trisha Reimers
Concern is mounting over changes to state education legislation that have been labeled "unfair and unworkable", and teachers at one high school in Victoria have vowed to strike over the forced resignation of a colleague.
The
Ten people were arrested in a Durban protest calling for formal housing on April 28. Hundreds of protesters from the Cato Crest informal sector had gathered to present President Thabo Mbeki, who was speaking nearby, with a memorandum asking for
Pip Hinman, Sydney
Paddy Keneally, a former wharfie and Australian commander in East Timor, condemned the Coalition government for stealing Timor's oil at a rally in Martin Place on April 26. The same day, talks resumed in Dili between Timorese and
SYDNEY — A new report by Melbourne academics has documented the brutality of police forces around Australia and successful legal actions in response.
The 148-page report, Civil Litigation by Citizens Against Australian Police between 1994 and
On April 21, the United Nations Human Rights Commission rejected a Cuba-proposed resolution calling for an "impartial and independent fact-finding mission" into human rights abuses at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. The 53-state body voted the
Dave Riley
With the increasingly strident nationalism that greets ANZAC Day each year, it is easy to forget what the ANZAC tradition celebates. In almost nine months of entrenched fighting on Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula, Australian and New Zealand
For Australia, as for many nations, World War I remains the most costly conflict ever in terms of deaths and casualties. From a population of fewer than five million, 300,000 men enlisted, of which more than 60,000 were killed and 156,000 were
Is the Coalition government surreptitiously trying to reimpose the death penalty on Australian citizens? This question has been posed by the conduct of the Australian Federal Police in the case of nine Australians arrested in Bali on April 17 by
DARWIN — A protest against a new uranium mine in Kakadu National Park was held outside the Northern Territory parliament on April 26, to mark the expiry of the five-year moratorium on mining company negotiations with the traditional owners of the
May 4
1919: Despite losing one of their ranks to police gunfire, wharfies expel scabs in Fremantle on Bloody Sunday.
May 5
1818: Karl Marx is born.
1981: IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands dies in jail.
1993: 70,000 people march in Melbourne
GI Special is an online publication at <http://www.militaryproject.org>. It reports resistance events, especially those within the US armed forces. Green Left Weekly's Niko Leka spoke with GI Special editor Thomas Barton.
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