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Protesting community members in East Kalimantan were violently attacked by the Indonesian Mobile Police Brigade (BRIMOB) on October 8. Seven protesters were shot, several were seriously wounded, and two were declared missing. The violence ended a
Part two of a three-part eyewitness report on the protests against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meeting in Prague in September by Russian socialist BORIS KAGARLITSKY. Part one was published in the previous issue of Green Left
Women rallied across Australia on October 27 to "Reclaim the Night" and protest against violence against women. In Sydney, Lauren Carroll Harris reports, 1000 women and children assembled in Hyde Park for the rally, which was kicked off with a
BY NADYA STANI SYDNEY — Gwen and Joan have spent the day at the Paralympics being inspired by the athletes. "They're just terrific", said Joan. Mitchell, who brought his son with him from Orange in western NSW, said he takes the Paralympics
The Jubilee 2000 anti-debt coalition has condemned the practice of "vulture funds", private hedge funds which buy Third World countries' debt cheap and then sue for full repayment, after one such fund received a one-off $58 million payment from Peru
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Hundreds of people confronted the world's most powerful finance ministers during three days of protest against the October 24-25 meeting of the G20 in Montreal. Protest organisers said the G20 — which includes the Group of Seven richest
BY SUE BOLAND A few months ago, federal minister for workplace relations and small business Peter Reith told a meeting of the Financial and Treasury Association (SA branch) that "political correctness" in the media meant that businesspeople were
BY JIM GREEN The Australian Conservation Foundation's recently released document "Natural Advantage: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Australia" provides a forward-looking vision for a clean, green economy and, in the process, renders obsolete the
BY PETER BOYLE An important aspect of the September 11-13 protests (S11) against the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Melbourne — which made them politically more advanced than the earlier Seattle and Washington protests — was the relative
On October 23, a deadly cholera epidemic in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province claimed its 31st victim. More than 3600 cases have been reported since the outbreak began in mid-August. On October 24, national spokesperson for the National Health
BY SIMON BUTLER Last week's National Roundtable Forum in Canberra was billed by the federal government as the start of new drive to seriously tackle the poverty, discrimination and social dysfunction endemic to many Aboriginal communities. Of