The best and worst of the union movement
Waterfront — the battle that changed AustraliaBy Helen Trinca and Anne DaviesDoubleday, Sydney, 2000$29.60, 317pp. REVIEW BY BOB CARNEGIE
Writers and journalists play an enormous role in creating public
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Activists target Shell
BY SEAN HEALY
SYDNEY — Oil multinational Shell was accused of involvement in murder and gross human rights violations in Nigeria on August 18, when 40 activists staged an action against the company outside the city
Global Action Radio goes national
BY ANNE O'CASEY
MELBOURNE — People around Australia can now find out about the latest debates and news in the lead up to the September 11 protests against the World Economic Forum here. The Global Action Radio
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The wealth of the world's richest 200 people increased from US$440 billion to more than $1 trillion between 1994-98. Compare this to the Third World, where 800 million people are suffering from chronic hunger, 840 million
Anti-racism protests at Olympics planned
BY JENNIFER THOMPSON
SYDNEY — Amidst a media fear campaign about supposed terrorists' plans to violently disrupt the September Olympic Games, an alliance of groups is gathering in Sydney to plan peaceful
LOS ANGELES — On the night of August 14, cops showed off their months of anti-protest training for the Democratic National Convention. Police shot high-pressure water and pepper spray pellets at protesters on a peaceful, festive march through
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — While momentum for the September 11 protest in Melbourne against the World Economic Forum snowballs, the S11 movement has much to work out: including whether it can unite on anything other than the protest itself. A
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522.
Access News — Melbourne community TV,
Rethinking in Ireland
Red BannerPO Box 6587, Dublin 6, IrelandEmail <red_banner@yahoo.com>Subscriptions A$22 Fourthwrite<http://rwg.phoblacht.net> REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY
The fallout from the Sinn Fein-sponsored peace process has
Why we'll be protesting at the Olympics
BY SIMON BUTLER
The 400,000-strong reconciliation march across the Sydney Harbour
Bridge on May 28 demonstrated to the federal Coalition government that
a healthy anti-racism sentiment still
Howard's IVF discrimination opposed
BY LYDIA LEONARD
BRISBANE — More than 100 people rallied here on August 15 to oppose the federal government's plan to alter the federal anti-discrimination act to exclude lesbians and single mothers from
Join the Democratic Socialist Party
By Peter Boyle
Four months after the Seattle protests, representatives of Third World governments met in Cuba for the G77 South Summit Conference. Cuban President Fidel Castro's address to that gathering
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