BY SARAH STEPHEN
There is a huge range of refugee solidarity web sites popping up
every day, reflecting the broadening of support and sympathy for the plight
of people trying to find a safe haven in Australia.
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A report in the January 26 British Medical Journal reveals that
Argentina is running out of medical supplies and faces rising drug prices
as the country sinks deeper into economic crisis.
The report quotes Juan Carr, who heads Red Solidaria
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The Boys From BallymoreBy Anthony BrownPenguin Books Australia, 2001355 pages, $23
Liam O'Brien returns to Ballymore after living in Australia, he remembers. Ballymore is a small town in Tipperary, Ireland. Liam finds the
Refugee rights protests
HOBART — Hundreds of people signed petitions and tooted their car horns in support of refugees' rights at a series of lunchtime vigils, organised by Resistance, outside immigration department offices between January 27
BY MARK ABBERTON
CANBERRA — On January 26-27, hundreds of people from Aboriginal and other communities across Australia came together outside Old Parliament House to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. The gathering
Act Now to End War and Racism — ANSWER held a rally on February 2 to demand "Declare war on unemployment, poverty and mass layoffs not on the people of Afghanistan" and "Money for jobs, education and health care not war in Afghanistan". Visit
BY EVA CHENG
The United States National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) officially declared on November 26 that the US had lapsed into recession, and had been in that situation since March 2001. Soon after, the capitalist media and mainstream
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
PERTH — "The way we treat our most vulnerable and powerless will mark our society for years to come", Carmen Lawrence, ALP MP for Fremantle and the shadow minister for indigenous affairs, told 600 refugee-rights protesters on
BY KATE STOCKDALE
DARWIN — Socialist Alliance's campaign for Lord Mayor of Darwin was launched on February 1 at a protest in support of refugees. The alliance will be running Ruth Ratcliffe in the March 16 poll.
"The campaign is an excellent
BY EVA CHENG
"If I rob a bank, they throw me in jail. But if they rob me, then they say that's OK", screamed a protester who had joined thousands of others outside the office of Argentina's President Eduardo Duhalde on January 11 to demand
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
On January 31, US and Philippines military officials launched the
Balikatan 2002 exercises, which bring together US troops and the soldiers
of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). While the exercises are supposedly
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — More than 350 people packed into the Labor Club on January 29 to express their concern about the treatment of refugees in Australia's detention centres.
The meeting was convened be the Refugee Action Committee
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