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Marce Cameron "How could this be happening in the United States?", asked the headline of a September 3 Washington Post article in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "People around the world cannot believe what they're seeing", the Post reported. "From
Nick Everett, Canberra On September 7, long-time Community and Public Sector Union activist and delegate to Unions ACT council Paul Oboohov was removed from the CPSU's delegation to the council. Oboohov was also disendorsed as a CPSU representative
Doug Lorimer On September 13, the UN General Assembly approved a 38-page document for submission to a summit in New York of 150 heads of governments marking the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation. The document is a considerably
Cuba and psychiatry Rachel Evans' rejection of drug therapy (Write On, GLW #640) is akin to blaming all industrial technology for ecological destruction. The most enlightened country, Cuba, uses psychiatric drugs such as the generic version of

My Life is My Sun Dance: Prison Writings of Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier is one of the United States' longest-serving political prisoners.

On September 14, 1500 delegates representing 6.7 million workers unanimously voted to express their support for Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution and the National Union of Workers (UNT). The motion was presented by the university and college
DARWIN — The Charles Darwin University Students' Union has been hit with a pre-emptive strike from the university management as it tries to beat PM John Howard to the punch in starving the student union of funds. The university administration is
Dale Mills Like a scene from a James Bond flick, 36-year-old Texan-based peace activist Scott Parkin was picked up on the streets of Melboune at lunchtime on September 11, while he was at a cafe. He was arrested by six immigration officials and
ALICE SPRINGS — The traditional owners of one of the federal government's proposed nuclear dump sites — on Arrernte land 25 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs — say they don't want poison from Sydney's Lucas Heights nuclear reactor brought
The Korean Federation of Service Workers' Unions (KFSU) is continuing its battle against the union-busting campaign by Hotel Riviera in Daejeon City, which began in August 2004 when the hotel's owners, the Shinan Leisure Corporation, closed the
BRISBANE — "The prison system is racist and sexist, and we need to openly challenge it", Debbie Kilroy, director of the women prisoners support group Sisters Inside, told a public forum at the New Farm Neighbourhood Centre on September 10. The
In Caracas, Green Left Weekly's Kiraz Janicke spoke to Gregory Wilpert about the developing revolutionary process in Venezuela. Wilpert has been living in Venezuela for five years and is the editor of venezuelanalysis.org, an independent website