Rohan Pearce
On March 16, Iraq's new 275-member National Assembly met for the first time since US-sponsored elections were held on January 30. The parliament met inside Baghdad's Green Zone — the US-controlled area that houses most of the
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On March 14, Saudi Arabian police raided a wedding hall, arresting 110 men in what authorities have described as a "gay wedding celebration". Eighty of the men were released, but 30 have been charged with various offences. Homosexuality is illegal in
BRISBANE — The Festival of Women's Ideas into Action conference, held on March 3-4 at the Power House in New Farm turned into a conference on the crisis facing women's welfare services.
Attended by 200 women, most of them working in women's
BRISBANE — "The Venezuelan people would give their lives to defend the revolution, to defend Chavez", Venezuelan activist Eulalia Whitney told an official launch of the Venezuela solidarity campaign on March 11.
Thirty people attended a night of
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Britney Aguilera? Robbie Timberlake? Paulini Sebastian? I occasionally have the misfortune to watch ABC's Rage on a
March 23
1919: 13 people are jailed in Brisbane under the War Precautions Act, for flying the Red Flag.
March 24
1894: Strike leaders from Barcaldine and Clermont in Queensland languish in jail after they are arrested by troops.
1976: Workers
Peter Boyle
Jess Melvin, a 20-year-old student of Inonesian studies at Sydney University recently returned from a week in Aceh with the CARE Aceh aid workers, told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly that three months after the tsunami hundreds of thousands of
Fred Fuentes, Hanoi
Enrique Ramos, president of the Venezuelan National Institute of Youth, told the February 27-28 Hanoi preparatory meeting for the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, to be held in Caracas, that the festival "would be a
Judy McVey
Tom Freeman died suddenly in Melbourne in early March after a year-long fight with cancer. He was 51.
Since his youth, Tom was a revolutionary socialist, a fighter for justice and human rights, and a wonderful human being.
He started
Rohan Pearce
Even if one of the prisoners had survived, "both [of his] legs would have had to be amputated", a report by the US army on the deaths of two Afghan prisoners, who were chained to the ceiling during the assault, noted. The investigation
Brenda Stokely is president of AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) District Council 1707 in New York, which represents 23,000 day-care and home-care workers. Her fierce pride in the rank and file of her union is
Feminist writer and human rights activist Nawal el Sadaawi has announced she will run for president in Egypt's September election. On February 26, President Hosni Mubarak announced that the country's law would be amended to allow more than one
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