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BY ELISABETH KEAN& NORM DIXON Beginning on October 9, a suburb of the Gaza Strip city of Rafah and three refugee camps on its fringes were invaded by the Israeli military. Israel sent more than 100 tanks and bulldozers, backed by US-supplied Apache
BY SID PATEL SAN FRANCISCO — Three activists at the University of California-Berkeley have been convicted of student conduct violations for participating in a demonstration on the day after the US war on Iraq began. UC administrators singled out
BY LIAM MITCHELL SYDNEY — On October 22, 500 delegates from four trade unions crammed into Trades Hall to hear reports into the death of a young worker on a building site and the campaign to introduce industrial manslaughter laws in NSW. Most
BY FARIDA IQBAL PERTH — It recently came to the attention of Radio Pike and Liz Leahy that the Cutie Boutique, situated in a queer area of Perth, had a sign displayed in its window that said: "No cross-dressers. No shoplifting. Beware of cameras
BY DOUG LORIMER Despite the unanimous October 16 vote by the UN Security Council in favour of a US-sponsored call for the UN's 191 member countries to contribute troops to a US-commanded "multinational" Iraq occupation force, public support in the
Bring Out the BannersVictorian Trade Union ChoirSend $20 to PO Box 79, Carlton South, Victoria 3053 (buy five and get one free) or visit <http://home.vicnet.net.au/~vtuc/cdpage.htm>. REVIEW BY ANNIE McGLADE Bring out the Banners is a
BY JON LAMB NEWCASTLE — On October 23, more than 500 people packed into a room at the Town Hall to oppose the closure of the rail line from Broadmeadow to Newcastle station. Organised by the Save Our Rail committee, the meeting was attended by
BY SARAH STEPHEN Strange things happened in Canberra during the US President George Bush's visit. Residents woke on October 23 to radio reports that a Canberra hospital ward had been cleared in anticipation of a presidential emergency. The
On October 25, 100,000 anti-war protesters mobilised in Washington DC to demand the end of the US occupation of Iraq and the immediate withdrawal of US troops. Sponsored by two of country's largest anti-war coalitions, International Act Now to Stop
BY DOUG LORIMER Three days after a massive wave of protests forced Bolivia's US-backed president, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, to resign and flee to Miami, tens of thousands of workers and peasants massed in the capital, La Paz, on October 20, vowing
BY PETER BOYLE Helen Jarvis, then a student at the Australian National University (ANU), was one of the Canberra protesters who turned out to protest against the October 1966 visit of US President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ). "It was at night,
ReturnDavid RovicsEver Reviled Records, 2003Hang a Flag in the WindowDavid Rovics with Allie RosenblattSelf released, 2002Rovics' albums can be ordered from <http://www.davidrovics.com> and from the Hobart Resistance Bookshop