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Solidarity with protesters

MELBOURNE — The S11 protesters received messages of solidarity with their actions from the following groups and individuals: People's Democratic Party, PRD of Indonesia Labour Party Pakistan All Pakistan Para Medical Staff Federation All

WEF threat to leave caused baton charge

BY SUSAN PRICE MELBOURNE — World Economic Forum officials threatened to "pack up and go home" at the end of the summit's first day on September 11 if police could not ensure more delegates were brought into the conference on time on September 12,

EAST TIMOR: The Indonesian-Australian invasion

Prime Minister John Howard's Coalition government has released foreign affairs documents relating to the 1974-76 period in a cynical ploy to use Australian people's outrage at the 1975 invasion and occupation of East Timor to score points against the

UNITED STATES: Ford, Firestone knew of deadly defective tyres

More than 150 deaths around the world have been linked to defective Firestone tyres fitted to Ford motor vehicles. The deadly problem involves the tread separating from the tyre. According to Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, writing in their

Government shifts blame on petrol prices

BY SUE BOLAND Queensland Premier Peter Beattie created a media furore on August 20 when he called for an inquiry into the impact of the GST on petrol price rises. With petrol prices having leapt to over $1 a litre in places, Beattie's comments

Correction

"... and ain't i a woman?" last week said that the National Council of Women of Australia, the YWCA and the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women would each receive $300,000 in funding from the Office of the Status of Women. This

RUSSIA: Disasters reveal regime's crisis

MOSCOW — August was a fateful month for the Russian authorities. There was a terrorist explosion in Pushkin Square, then the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk, and, on August 27, the Ostankino television tower caught fire. What happened to the

Write on: letters to the editor

S11 protests I am a long-time Labor voter and a delegate of the Community and Public Sector Union at my workplace. Last weekend I travelled to Melbourne to visit my family, and to attend the non-violent protest against the World Economic Forum.

Remanded Iraqis denied rights

BY SIMON BUTLER & BRONWEN BEECHEY Ten Iraqi asylum seekers, charged with inciting the desperate riots at the Woomera detention centre in August, are now being systematically denied even their most basic rights as prisoners, according to lawyers

S11: 'This is what democracy looks like'

BY SEAN HEALY MELBOURNE — At the end, those blockading the World Economic Forum were exhausted and euphoric, in equal measure, but with only a taste for the magnitude of what they'd achieved. At S11, the veil which separates the people from the

Alternative opening ceremony targets Nike

BY JOHN GAUCI SYDNEY — Pressure on Nike has been stepped up by an "Alternative Opening Ceremony" organised by NikeWatch, which challenged the sportswear giant to live up to the "Olympic ideal of human dignity". The September 11 ceremony, in

Howard at UN tries to dodge human rights

BY ALLEN MYERS "John Howard sounded nervous when he rose to speak", Michelle Grattan began her Sydney Morning Herald commentary on the prime minister's speech to the United Nations Millennium Summit on September 7. She went on to point out that the